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.
"From a tech perspective, utilizing deduplication is one of the most valuable features."
"Regarding stability, it's been rock solid."
"Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"We are talking about a stable solution which boasts good performance and security."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."
"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."
"It is way easier to take backup with Veeam Backup & Replication than the regular ones."
"The documentation is very good. It's also easy to install Veeam Backup and Replication."
"It is a rock-solid backup solution. That's all, and that's what we were asking for."
"The backup and replication capabilities are quite good."
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restoration of our VMs. Additionally, they add features regularly."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"In Linux, I suggest you backup for a PostgreSQL database."
"We would like to have the ability to perform more things on the web interface. The heavy client is still needed to perform advanced tasks."
"The data duplication should be improved."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to fix the way it does backups. We can't pick a backup for one database. We have to do a backup on the whole Exchange VM. I'd like for them to change it to where we can do individual backups."
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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