We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Iron Mountain Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Instead of taking three different backups of your systems, you're taking only one. You're able to crack that open and get what you need. The incident recovery, where it creates the VM and then you're running it, technically you're running it on Spectrum Protect. But then in the background, it's doing the storage motion and moving it off the Spectrum Protect back to your VMware environment. The users don't know the difference."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"Once setup, you do not need to touch it again. You just need to do a formal check on possibly batch updates."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution."
"Good user interface."
"The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities"
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"They are behind on many things, especially security. They are catching up a little bit now, but the competitors are doing better security-wise. There should be malware detection and prevention and higher security."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"The reporting could be better."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"I would like to see more integration with different platforms."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Iron Mountain Connect is ranked 39th in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Iron Mountain Connect 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 Iron Mountain Connect writes "Good policies related to data". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM Storage Protect, whereas Iron Mountain Connect is most compared with NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Iron Mountain Connect report.
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