We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [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."Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is application-aware backups."
"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."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"The solution is really scalable."
"To do the actual backup configuration is also not too bad."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a VMware environment."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to navigate inside a backup point to look for a specific folder or data you want to recover."
"The solution is useful for taking backups for end-user laptops and end-user workstations where data is involved."
"The most valuable features are backup and restore. This solution is also easy to use."
"Veeam helps to create a stable environment with virtual servers."
"Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows's most useful features is the ease of use and user-friendly."
"Veeam is very user-friendly and intuitive software."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"Ease of use."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"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."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"Its management part can be better and simplified. It is kind of a beast as compared to Commvault or Veeam, but they are more user-friendly. They are also easier to learn, whereas Spectrum Protect definitely takes time. They should simplify it. Our teams are pretty comfortable with it because we have been using it for a long time, but from the perspective of a new user who is evaluating or using this solution, it is definitely more complex in terms of manageability. Its monitoring could be improved so that it can even monitor the jobs that are scheduled by external schedulers. There are situations where a database team might decide to use their own schedulers, but currently, Spectrum Protect is not able to catch those jobs in the Operation Manager console."
"Troubleshooting is very hard."
"We can't use tape for primary storage on Veeam."
"With the currency exchange, the solution ends up being quite expensive."
"I've found a lot of difficulties on the initial setup and especially in terms of credentials. We really need a Window OS. It doesn't like the domain admin account. it's a primary permission issue."
"I would like to see the capability for remote installation of third party applications added( Like installing WinRar MS Office etc..) , and Firewall for servers."
"Maybe in the future, they could do something better with the user interface and the performance, but so far it's a really good, efficient solution."
"Interface could possibly be improved."
"It fulfills our needs in terms of features. In terms of improvements, they can maybe improve its documentation."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is rated 8.4. 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 Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] writes "Functional application availability". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Rubrik, whereas Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Acronis Cyber Protect.
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