We compared IBM Spectrum Protect and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: IBM Spectrum Protect is highly regarded for its ability to integrate with tape libraries and its customization options. Users also praised Spectrum Protect for its compatibility with various products, scalability, and stability. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. IBM Spectrum Protect could improve its integration with cloud services and make its interface more user-friendly. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: IBM’s customer service is described as high quality, friendly, knowledgeable, and responsive. At the same time, some said the support process can be lengthy. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: IBM Spectrum Protect's initial setup is challenging and demands skilled professionals to configure multiple parameters and features. This process can be time-consuming. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: IBM Spectrum Protect is considered expensive. The pricing model is complex, taking into account factors like processor type and volume. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Users have realized benefits from IBM Spectrum Protect’s data protection and retrieval. They appreciate its ability to reduce storage requirements with larger tape sizes. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: IBM Spectrum Protect is a reliable, customizable solution that allows smooth integration with tape libraries. At the same time, some say that the user interface could be more intuitive and Spectrum Protect could integrate better with the cloud. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"It allows us to have one interface."
"In the past, one of the most valuable features, and the biggest advantage, was the incremental forever feature. Not many other backup vendors provided that. In the pre-virtualization environment, it was very robust and simple technology, especially writing to tape."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"They have recently added support tickets specifically engineered around performance. This has been very useful for us when we run into issues where customers are looking to try to squeeze a lot more horsepower out of older system."
"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"This product has helped to centralize backups and made it easy to recover data."
"Every new version has got some tweaks and improvements in stability and speed."
"The solution is stable; there is no need to retry any sort of jobs in daily operations."
"The speed of the backups and replications is fantastic and, for the most part, the simplicity of use has been wonderful."
"Most valuable for DimenXional Cloud is the API provided by Nakivo which allows us to implement the software in all types of solutions."
"The most important feature besides the easy management of the different backup jobs is the automated e-mail notification functionality."
"Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost."
"The implementation of Nakivo made it possible to implement the information security policies currently in force in the company and to meet the statutory requirements in the field of IT security."
"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."
"The installation process could be simplified."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"We need everything cloud. Strong support for cloud services. S3 connectivity, which is mandatory for us in the future along with this integration of Spectrum Copy Data Management or Spectrum Protect services together with these Spectrum Protect Plus functionalities, e.g., hardware, snapshots, and Copy Data Management. They should come together in one solution."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive. Its interface is very old and not user friendly. They can improve its interface. Their support can also be better. My clients are not very satisfied with the support because they are not really quick."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"We'd like to see a legacy environment backup, like AIX, etc."
"I would like to have a built-in SNMP client, which is important if we want to monitor it using Zabbix, Nagios, or another monitoring solution."
"Nakivo's implementation documentation could use a little beefing up."
"The product needs to improve backup speed and replication speed."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"What must be improved is the response time to technical support requests."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Azure Backup, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and BDRSuite. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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