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We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Quorum OnQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution.""The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery.""The solution offers very good flexibility.""You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk.""One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market.""The product is very stable.""The file-restoring feature is the most valuable.""The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."

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"One of the most valuable features was the usability, since many of the features were very straightforward. The backup and restoration process was also very fast. Although we weren't able to fully test the scenarios, one of the features was that we could have it restored on a remote site. However, since we were on-prem, we weren't able to test the remote site restoration.""The solution offers good documentation.""I have used the BMR (Bare Metal Restore) in several emergencies and it has absolutely saved my bacon.""Quorum OnQ has taken the guesswork out of backup/recovery and disaster recovery.""It's easy to implement, easy to spin up, easily configurable, to drop-in appliances and network. There wasn't a lot of time needed to spin it up.""A very high level security environment for secondary data.""One of the biggest features is that, even on the absolutely run-of-the-mill box, if I lose any one of my servers I can automatically bring it up virtually on the physical onQ Quorum device.""Being able to spin up a machine in a sandbox is amazing because it allows us to test things that we otherwise would not be able to do."

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Cons
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short.""Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved.""The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority.""It does not do too well in our virtual environment.""Scalability is poor. As you get to bigger environments, this is where our gaps have been introduced. As we have grown over the past couple of years, the gaps have become more apparent.""The solution must protect against ransomware attacks better.""The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure.""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."

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"There seems to be a lack of technicians. Sometimes they are very busy and I don't hear back for a day or two. The technicians they have are great. They are fantastic, but it seems difficult, at times, to get in contact with anyone.""The cost could be reduced.""Quorum OnQ can be improved by providing support for other operating systems like Ubuntu.""At times the email notifications don't go out, but a quick reset always fixes that problem.""We found that some of the live SQL databases we were backing up would be inconsistent when we would restore them.""I don't love the scheduler, as I think that interface could use an overhaul.""Quorum OnQ's user interface is not very attractive and should be made more attractive.""Lacks compatibility in terms of supporting other OS."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it."
  • "Licensing can be either complicated or simple depending on what type of licensing you wish to use and what works best for your environment."
  • "At scale, the consumption license (per TB) is very expensive."
  • "Use capacity licensing. It's easier and cheaper."
  • "We worked our licensing into a capacity model, which is nice. Now, everything is much simpler to manage from a licensing perspective.​"
  • "We chose IBM Spectrum Protect, because they actually have something called MSP pricing, which means managed services provider pricing. The pricing was attractive, and it seems to be a platform that IBM is totally investing on in terms of new functions and new capabilities."
  • "Spectrum Protect is not expensive, and it is simple to use."
  • "It is very scalable, but the downside is that it costs money."
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  • "We have never questioned whether it is worth it because it so obviously is a great value."
  • "When we first got the Quorum the licensing was different."
  • "The cost is higher than other software and services, but it is an absolute must-have."
  • "The total for our current solution's licensing is about $14,000 for 12 servers for three years."
  • "The pricing is about $1,400 a month. It's a little bit on the higher side. But it's one of those situations where time is valuable for me. So if it costs a little bit more money for me to have a solution that just works and requires less of my day-to-day management, I'm willing to pay a little bit more."
  • "The initial expenditure for us was a little under $40,000 for the recent renewal. For the first three years after that, other than electricity, there's no cost. After that, their support contract has to be renewed annually. We spent close to $6,000, between the two offices, for support."
  • "When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."
  • "The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups.
    Top Answer:The platform is neither highly priced nor inexpensive. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.
    Top Answer:The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement. There could be an agent-less backup and recovery mechanism. In the next release, I would recommend the inclusion of a… more »
    Top Answer:The solution is very cost effective.
    Top Answer:The solution’s pricing is economical. The customers have their own flexibility. Customers have to pay for an annual license, and the licensing has a subscription model as well as a perpetual license… more »
    Top Answer:The subscription must be affordable..
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    Also Known As
    IBM TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
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    Overview
    IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery. It is the flagship product in the IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) family. It enables reliable, cost effective backups and fast recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes.

    Quorum onQ is the global leader in 1-click instant recovery, providing full immediate recovery of your critical systems after any storage, system or site failure. It does this by automatically maintaining up-to-date, ready-to-run virtual machine clones of your physical and virtual servers stored on a dedicated appliance – clones that will transparently take over for failed servers within minutes.

    Sample Customers
    CERN, Einstein Healthcare, Nyherji, Allianz Australia, TZM, ABT Online, NCT, Kindred Healthcare Inc., Cobalt Iron, TransGrid, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Cash America, Piedmont Healthcare, RWGV, Arkansas Tech University, British Columbia Institute of Technology
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    Healthcare Company13%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Insurance Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Retailer8%
    Government8%
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    Financial Services Firm28%
    Logistics Company17%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Individual & Family Service11%
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    Financial Services Firm9%
    Real Estate/Law Firm9%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business86%
    Large Enterprise14%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise54%
    Buyer's Guide
    IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Quorum OnQ
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Quorum OnQ and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Quorum OnQ is ranked 46th in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Quorum OnQ is rated 9.0. 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 Quorum OnQ writes "Took us just hours to do a complete server restore, with minimal downtime". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Quorum OnQ is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect and Acronis Cyber Protect. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Quorum OnQ report.

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