We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Iron Mountain Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"The product is very stable."
"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities"
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"I am not really impressed with the Level 1 support, but once I get past that and go to Level 2, then we will usually get some type of resolution."
"I need two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. I need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"The usability of IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved, specifically additional features to the product in the operations center. Additional reporting facilities and stronger reporting tools such as build dashboards would be beneficial."
"I would like to see more integration with different platforms."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Iron Mountain Connect is ranked 37th in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Iron Mountain Connect is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Iron Mountain Connect writes "Good policies related to data". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup, whereas Iron Mountain Connect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and NAKIVO Backup & Replication.
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