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."Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"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."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"Flexibility and frequency of restore points: allow me to economically customize the range of time for data restoration, according to the varying sensitivities of each type of data."
"The HTML5 UI is clean, easy to navigate, and very intuitive."
"I like the performance. I think it's what you call a hybrid SAN. It has solid state drives and, of course, regular optical drives, which would make performance a lot better, faster."
"Write latency is averaging way under a millisecond."
"The always-on deduplication and compression is also effective and allows us to achieve about 3x savings on space utilization."
"The machine has been easy to use."
"Takes advantage of deduplication and compression through as much of the content of VMs which are similar."
"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."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The installation process could be simplified."
"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."
"We need better protection from ransomware or the ability to identify ways we can protect ourselves from ransomware. Having backups is one thing, but specifically, we need methods to recover if we have a ransomware attack."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"The only thing that I'd like to see, at some point in time, is having the storage array being able to detect a ransomware attack. When you get hit by a ransomware it rewrites every block in your guest's virtual machine. So there should be a way for them to be able to detect that: "Hey, this is unusual, to see every block of this guest being rewritten all at one time," and then flag that as potential malware or ransomware."
"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."
"Needs some hooks into cloud storage for backup. Also they should update the system to use additional secondary storage as a resource."
"There is only thing I can think of at the moment, that would be detailed printable reports."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to recover virtual machines individually without having to restore the full LUN."
"t would be helpful to have a mobile app to monitor the storage array remotely."
"Needs to be made easier to use with slightly older versions of VMware."
"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, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Reduxio [EOL] is most compared with .
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