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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Storage Protect

    Score7.3 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 Platform

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

    $428

    per year per 5 instances

    Pricing
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Veeam Data Platform Essentials
    $428
    per year per 5 instances
    Veeam Data Platform
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Veeam sells through channel partners. Contact a partner for detailed pricing and quotes. Resellers or sales personnel are available for assistance.
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    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Platform
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Storage Protect
    At the time when we choose Storage Protect Veeam Data Platform was not an option on the market. Later we took the opportunity to evaluate it, but we kept Storage Protect because we already had in place the configuration for it.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Storage Protect
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    We utilises tivoli storage manager in the past. It was a complex system with custom AIX components, large tape libraries that were hard to maintain. Moving to Veeam has provided significant savings and simplicity in our backup solutions. The integration with VMWare in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    Veeam is a superior solution for VM Backups to any other tools I've used. The other solutions have more breadth, but Veeam is laser-focused on operating on the x86 virtualization space. Their head start has allowed them to continue to innovate on this space and bring new …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Data Platform
    Compared to other solutions where we had to have DR at our partner's site, being able to shuffle it to the Azure cloud instead saves us a bit every month and we are able to manage it ourselves.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Platform
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and Veeam Data Platform
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    Veeam Data Platform
    9.2
    212 Ratings
    Universal recovery8.03 Ratings9.2177 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.05 Ratings9.4188 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.03 Ratings9.3186 Ratings
    Business application protection8.03 Ratings9.2170 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.04 Ratings9.6201 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.04 Ratings9.7206 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.01 Ratings9.2132 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.04 Ratings8.9192 Ratings
    Snapshots8.02 Ratings9.4178 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.01 Ratings9.2169 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.04 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    Platform support7.05 Ratings9.2176 Ratings
    Retention options7.05 Ratings8.9179 Ratings
    Encryption9.04 Ratings9.7157 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Storage ProtectVeeam Data Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (661 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (37 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.9
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (33 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (21 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (7 ratings)