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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 Data Cloud for Azure

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AVeeam Data Cloud supports Azure resilience, combining SaaS-based backup with built-in immutability and automated management. Purpose-built for cloud workloads, it unifies organizations' data protection strategy into a solution that simplifies recovery, secures critical data against threats, and keeps costs clear and predictable. One platform, full coverage: Policy-automated protection that's purpose-built for Azure and unified with other apps, services and data. Resilient by…

    $42

    Pricing
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure
    42 per TB
    BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
    VUL Portable licensing
    Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Veeam Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    39 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    Features
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    8.3
    38 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Universal recovery8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.75 Ratings9.038 Ratings
    Platform support8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options7.06 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Encryption9.05 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    9.0
    22 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Malware protection00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
    SaaS Backup
    Comparison of SaaS Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    8.3
    32 Ratings
    3% below category average
    SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
    Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings7.027 Ratings
    Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
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    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Small Businesses
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Backupify
    Score5.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Spanning Backup
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (39 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Cloud for Azure
    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
    For our purposes I can't particularly find any shortcomings of Veeam Backup for Azure. It has been working well for our needs for a few years now. Maybe for someone with a larger cloud footprint or more complex needs, or maybe someone who wants to be able to deploy and configure the appliance using infrastructure as code it may not be as practical.
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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
    • Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
    • Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
    • Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.
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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
    • Documentation around service account permissions was a little sparse when we implemented it
    • It's sometimes hard to get the reason behind a (rare) job failure without going into logs
    • The UI around snapshots and backups could do with some clarity around the restore points that will be available
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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
    Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it.
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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
    It was so easy that you thought it wasn't working. Once you saw data and was able to recover it or do a restore with the product those beliefs in the system went to the roof. Once you get a product that does everything you want it to do, you will give it it's props.
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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
    Great support team!
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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
    Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more secure process than saving to the external hard drives with Backup Exec.
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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
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    • We have had fast recovery of documents when needed; sub 10 minutes from start of restore to complete and in the users hands
    • Easily a value add for backing up files outside of the given Microsoft retention period; piece of mind
    • Easy tool to use with minimal training required to use it and set up backups
    • When you do change your cloud licensing it does require manual intervention to update backup data requirements. if the business makes changes then your backup person may not know to make these changes
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