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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Storage Protect

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect, or Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server.N/A

    Veeam Backup for AWS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® delivers native, automated AWS backup and disaster recovery to protect and manage Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS and Amazon VPC data. Veeam states it is built with simplicity, scalability, savings and security in mind, so users can eliminate the risk of data loss for AWS services.

    $40

    per year instance

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    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    IBM Spectrum Protect is cumbersome to use for virtual env. backups.
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    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    112 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    97 Answers
    Features
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery8.04 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.36 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.03 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Business application protection8.74 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.75 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.75 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.02 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.75 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Snapshots8.02 Ratings8.371 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.32 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.75 Ratings8.673 Ratings
    Platform support8.56 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Retention options7.06 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Encryption9.05 Ratings7.870 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
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    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.2
    82 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.975 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings7.173 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.9
    (115 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (106 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM Storage Protect is well-suited for large heterogenous environments, with skilled IT staff on-hand. You need a person (or group of people) to monitor day-to-day operations, tweak schedules where needed and be mindful of things that might go wrong. It is also well-suited if you have other IBM products that integrate well with Storage Protect, like Storage Protect Plus or IBM Defender. It is less suited for small companies, with only one person responsible for IT. Employing Storage Protect would be overkill and use too much time of the administrator.
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    Veeam Software
    I like the idea of using this product for backups and cold storage. This allows for long retention times and a very low cost. The ability to quickly restore and the efficiency of all the products involved. I haven't come across scenarios where it isn't appropriate. I don't have a lot of experience so for me, it works well in my cases.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Tight integration with Db2. As an IBM product, it works seamlessly with Db2. You can query what is stored in TSM via Db2 itself. You can also use DB scripts to maintain the items being stored there.
    • Like most of its competitors, Tivoli handles deduplication well.
    • Provides a GUI for browsing and maintaining items stored there. I rarely use this feature, due to the next item I will post:
    • Command-line interface directly from my Db2 database servers.
    • Both client and server-side deduplication, compression and encryption are available.
    • If the requirements are zLinux and DB2 support then it's the most solid solution.
    • Can be complex to implement, but once up and running, it is rock-solid and immensely scalable.
    • Scalability is huge. Can be added onto easily.
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    Veeam Software
    • Veeam Backup for AWS provides a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS workloads.
    • It's very easily integrated with the AWS cloud.
    • The Simple and intuitive user interface of Veeam Backup for AWS makes it easy to set up and manage backups for AWS instances.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Deployment and configuration is not easy for an unexperienced IBM Spectrum Protect administrator
    • Operations center uses a lot of data and needs a lot of storage for larger environments
    • Have not seen a redbook about it in the past 10 years
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    Veeam Software
    • We have never managed to use Veeam for Azure or GCP. It works well with AWS.
    • A client needed a multi-cloud DR solution management but we had a security issue and could find a solution from Veeam Backup for AWS.
    • Usually, you need a dedicated resource to monitor when the number of workloads is high. That adds to the cost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    Not required, company closed. TSM is not used in my current role at my current job.
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    Veeam Software
    We have been using Veeam Backup for AWS for our cloud hosted solutions for the last several years and will continue to do so. The ease of use and available support staff make the learning curve for use nearly flat in our case and having Veeam Backup for on-premise workloads makes the decision easy.
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    Usability
    IBM
    In the present, a backup solution is a must-have, but then companies start using a solution for virtual machines, another solution for bare-metal servers, and another solution for their ERP. By using Spectrum Protect you can have all of that in a single pane of glass. This way you can have a simple recovery plan for all your information assets.
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    Veeam Software
    The UI and the integration is good with the product. so far
    has not encountered any major challenges while using the UI. of course, this is
    user perspective. Few users suggested some different view that it should be
    change father should have some different options but overall the feedback about
    UI is positive and no major issues encountered by using the UI or forsake of
    this usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Veeam Backup has never failed me, whenever we have needed to recover data it has worked flawlessly. It is highly available and I do not know of of a situation where our business has needed Veeam Backup fo AWS and has not been able to access or use it in some way.
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    Performance
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have not really noticed much difference and only notice it when doing work afterhours with our veeam being backed up. However, this is not the case as we do not do this often and hence we don't really have any real challenges for performance issues. Overall, we find that the performance is pretty good
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    The few times we've called for support we eventually got an answer, but it's IBM and a very big company and getting to a support agent is hard.
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    Veeam Software
    One of the best and leading backup solution with central management for all Virtual Servers, Physical servers and Application level backup. Migrated from distributed backup solution running at each site to central VEEAM solution which has reduced overhead of backup administrator and improves the backup performance. Veeam team is very supportive in solution design, taken care of all our requirements and provided the cost effective solution.
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We had only one due to the pandemic, but we remember really enjoying the help. Someone came to our site and walked us through the process and we had lots of time to ask questions and got really helpful solutions and tips and tricks to make sure that staff would understand and learn how to use it
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    Online Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    The training provided online was good. The training was restrictive to users but was content was good and informative. The information provided was relevent and flow was maintained well. The Question and answers were good and supported well. Need to have more material provided with the training and will support users to adopt train the trainer approach.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We were pretty happy with our implementation as it was simple to deploy and we followed the technical guide online with out much technical assistance from vendor support. We had also tested and streamlined a process based on our own documentation for our own company which was simple to follow overall for deploying into AWS for future instances
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Spectrum Protect is related to the other IBM Spectrum products listed because it is part of the suite and is also the main backup product for backup and restoration of information. With Veeam it is related as they present competence in different lines of technology, often the integration of both tools can be the best solution for clients looking for a successful backup strategy.
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    Veeam Software
    I had looked at N2WS Backup & Recovery backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS environments. But while it provides similar backup and recovery capabilities as Veeam Backup for AWS, it lacks some of the advanced features such as instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    IBM
    Not at the moment, but it can leverage the billing outcomes as per the scales.
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    Veeam Software
    Overall, we pretty happy with the way it is contracted and the pricing structure. However, as stated we got it on promotion so we wont know until what it is after the 3 years but at this stage we are pretty happy with the product and the pricing from the commercial aspect
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    Scalability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have using this solution since 2020. In that moment we had four Host Linux and today we have forty vm Linux and Windows. The solution work fine as with few vm as multiples vm. The backup operators lovely this feacture, because keep simple his duties. Finally, we use the same solution for AWS, Azure or onpremise. This is great characteristic for skill transfer over backup team!
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    Professional Services
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Generally satisfied
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Tivoli does well running file-level backups, but Exchange is clunky and restores are really hard. With no SharePoint agent, if you use SharePoint you will need another product like AvePoint DocAve. The web-based GUI console is MUCH improved over earlier versions, but you will still need to be a command-line guru to make Tivoli do everything, and local (node) config files still rule. This product was originally ported from Unix and retains may of its 'nix roots.
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    Veeam Software
    • The only thing is that you have to make sure you understand your AWS costs if your retention periods are not kept under control.
    • ROI is hard to prove until the moment you need to restore your workload.
    • Time-saving is something that comes to mind. Before Veeam, we used to spend/waste a lot of time verifying and testing our backup and restore. Veeam makes it easy with its SureBackup technology.
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    ScreenShots

    Veeam Backup for AWS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview page detailing high-level information like alarms, protected instances, policies, and session information.Screenshot of Policies page detailing available policies, status and sessions log.Screenshot of Estimated monthly costs in policy wizard for snapshots, replicas, backups, traffic and transactions for machines in a policy.Screenshot of File Level Recovery, where individual files and folders can be searched and browsed for granular recovery.