We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Reduxio [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Everyone wants a full backup. It gives them safety and peace of mind, like an insurance policy for that rainy day when they may need to restore a system."
"It is an IBM product. With SAP, you are using IBM software to protect it. DB2 and AIX servers are both IBM. Therefore, it is a total IBM solution, which helps."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"The solution offers very good flexibility."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"I have an every second undo button for all my applications. I call Reduxio "the ransomware killer"."
"Immediate data recovery: critical to business continuity in an age of unknown cyber threats."
"In terms of ease of use, the GUI is quite amazing and seems to be taken from a computer game. Literally within 30 minutes, we had learned almost everything there is on the management UI and started managing the device."
"The ability to target existing remote storage with NoRestore is going to allow us to leverage existing storage without an increased financial investment."
"The BackDating feature which allows us to go back to any point in the past at one second granularity, is an amazing feature and allows us to recover from any mishap to our data – whether it's a malware attack, an application error or a human error. We have never seen this capability in any other storage product."
"Any time I have needed anything, from a simple question to someone to be onsite, the customer service has been exceptional."
"Ease of user interface: prevents distractions and confusion when dealing with real-time catastrophes and high-pressure situations. Overall, it extremely easy to use. My team was trained within less than two hours."
"The machine installed without difficulty."
"It is not easy to manage like other products in the market. It is okay only if you are command-line driven. Even though the operation center is there, it doesn't provide a single view of everything. You have to, for example, use TSMManager on top of it, which gives you a far better management capability, but it is a third-party product. Its management needs to be improved. There should be an HTML or graphical interface. It is a very difficult product. For example, you have a backup policy where you want a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly policy standard. It is an old kind of system where you have to keep retention for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, which is very difficult in IBM Spectrum Protect. In other products, in a matter of five minutes, you can configure such a policy. In TSM, it takes you one, two, or three days because you need to configure a node for each of them. If you have 250 nodes, you have to configure each node for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention. If you have 1,000 nodes, it is going to take you ages just to configure and register the nodes. You need to configure the schedule and the CAD daemons or services, depending on whether it is a Unix or Windows OS. Unfortunately, it is a very long and drawn-out process. You have to stop and start the services for changes to take effect. This is a very difficult part of TSM in IBM Spectrum Protect. To configure a backup policy, I should be able to select the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly options in one screen and finish it. After that, everything should happen in the background. All the backup products in the market already do that, and they are very simple to manage. This particular part of this solution has really been a major pain area for us, and unfortunately, we could not find a workaround. There is nobody at IBM who can give us a way to configure all this easily through a GUI or even scripts."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one."
"Ease of use."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"Scalability. Reduxio has only one product, they don’t have an option, for now, to expand the storage product."
"They're trying to do this, but they need to show more what their growth plan is, the development, what the next steps are, the future."
"I am waiting for the vSphere Plug-In with individual VM level control."
"The only critique that we have is it needs the ability to have local users added. You have to log in as one built-in admin account. You can't create your own."
"Would love to have role-based access and an active directory integration."
"t would be helpful to have a mobile app to monitor the storage array remotely."
"Integration is needed with other virtual vendors like VMware, Veeam, Hyper-V; that integration needs to be deeper, not just the way that they're using it now. I know that it's under development, but I think this is one of the disadvantages, for now, as a young company. They have to work with the other players on the market."
"We had a brief hiccup, a brief outage, during one upgrade process, but it wasn't too extreme."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Reduxio [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Reduxio [EOL] is rated 9.8. 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 Reduxio [EOL] writes "Its access speed and now its recently released features makes Reduxio not only an equal, but also better than your older version SANs". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Reduxio [EOL] is most compared with .
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