We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and StorageCraft ShadowXafe [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."Our performance is better."
"by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"We have a very good team of administrators who know the product perfectly and are able to manage it on a day-to-day basis."
"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."
"This solution has improved our organization through better file and database recovery."
"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"I like that they have some new devices that are simpler to use because they kind of tie right into the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the backups."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"In terms of features, they've got it all covered. The features they have are quite good. The only downside to it is that it is for an enterprise or big organization. In my opinion, it is not for a small business."
"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"The initial setup is complex."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"Their restoration protocols could be better. I pulled all my clients out of their cloud mostly because I wasn't confident that they could restore out of the cloud. This was backed up by friends who had been burned by stuff like that. We moved away because of the lack of resources to restore from a potential catastrophic failure. It's challenging, and in some cases, they couldn't do it because they didn't have enough resources. For example, if there was a major disaster, and everybody needed their images out of the cloud, they couldn't give them to everybody."
"StorageCraft ShadowXafe should improve the on-premises console management controls and protection and recovery."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] is rated 0.0. 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 StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] writes "An expensive next-generation data recovery and backup software solution with poor data restoration". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Arcserve UDP.
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