We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication has the winning edge in this comparison because it received higher marks in the ease of deployment, pricing, and service and support categories.
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"I have found that the most valuable feature is useful documentation and troubleshooting."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"It has a lot more capabilities and functions than a lot of other products. Even though it is more complex, the reason is because it gives you a lot more features. This is what I prefer, especially for a long retention."
"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."
"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."
"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly."
"It's a pretty complete product."
"It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days."
"The backup and replication features of this solution are most valuable."
"Instant Backup is an useful feature."
"The direct SAN backup feature perfectly integrates with our 3PAR storage infrastructure."
"No problems with stability."
"The main feature for Veeam is that it's built primarily for virtualization, such as VMware or Hyper-V."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"Limited support for environments other than VMware or Microsoft."
"The web interface could be more visual."
"The replication process is very slow. It takes too long to replicate a virtual machine."
"The integration with other solutions should be improved."
"Occasionally, in the course of upgrading one's virtualization platform, the backup can be ruined."
"My biggest issue with Veeam at the moment is how the backup reports are displayed. We use the SolarWinds integration to generate consolidated reports for monitoring purposes, but we aren't getting all the available data shown to us in the way that we want."
"The SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
"The initial setup is complex."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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