IBM Storage Protect Plus vs. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Storage Protect Plus
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
IBM Storage Protect Plus (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect Plus) provides data recovery for virtual environments and databases.N/A
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
Pricing
IBM Storage Protect PlusVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Storage Protect PlusVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIBM Spectrum Protect Plus is available in a monthly license or perpetual license.
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Features
IBM Storage Protect PlusVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
IBM Storage Protect Plus
9.0
4 Ratings
6% above category average
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
9.1
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Universal recovery10.03 Ratings9.74 Ratings
Instant recovery9.03 Ratings9.44 Ratings
Recovery verification8.53 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Business application protection8.14 Ratings9.15 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.13 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.04 Ratings9.85 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.04 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.03 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Snapshots9.53 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.54 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Management dashboard9.54 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Platform support9.04 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Retention options9.54 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Encryption8.03 Ratings9.35 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Storage Protect PlusVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(4 ratings)
9.2
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Storage Protect PlusVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Good for daily operational backups and their replications and areas like VM backup, when it comes to resting the backups in a cloud environment especially features like BYOL is an edge to IBM over its near competitors. On the other hand, a lot of scopes to improve to have native/application-aware backups for modern applications like AI and microservices.
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Veeam Software
We use it as a Simple Deployment. As a simple deployment scenario, the roles of the backup server, VMware backup proxy, and backup repository are assigned to a single machine. These roles are assigned automatically to the machine where we installed Veeam Backup & Replication. The drawback of the simple deployment scenario is that only the backup server handles and stores all data which is a single point of failure.
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Pros
IBM
  • recovery
  • replication
  • retention
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Veeam Software
  • File level restore
  • Backing up of difficult Laptops that are in and off the network
  • Reporting
  • Integration into other Veeam Products
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Cons
IBM
  • Incorporation of more touchless agents for physical servers.
  • Direct offload to tape - instead of requiring Spectrum Protect.
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Veeam Software
  • Stop the backup job from the console instead of having to stop from the client.
  • Don't consume too many resources while taking a backup.
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Usability
IBM
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Veeam Software
Overall, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a great backup solution and supplies extremely useful tools to configure backups to suite our needs and our clients requirements. I have only taken some points off as the user interface could be easier to navigate when configuring backups and the ability to update Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows from within the software would be appreciated.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus doesn't allow taking backup of the Meditech HIMS application, due to the unique nature of the database and its functionality. As it's a special case, the vendor supports only a few fully integrated backup solutions which resulted in using Bridgehead as a trustable backup option specific to the application.
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Veeam Software
Veeam is just on another level compared to most other software vendors who tend to make backup solutions complicated. Veeam uses intuitive GUI's that make sense to most people and take the stress out of systems recovery at high and low levels by simply explaining the process step by step.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Cloud backup can be expensive and slow
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Veeam Software
  • It allows end users to easily self-serve their own file restores, freeing up IT resources
  • It provides a seamless DR solution for the resources it backs up
  • It frequently take a long time to resolve problems when they do occur
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