HPE StoreOnce vs IBM Spectrum Protect comparison

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its UI. The product's UI makes it easy for users to configure the tool."

"The initial setup process is simple."

"The stability of the solution is excellent."

"I'm impressed with their support structure, call availability, understanding, flexibility in scheduling remote sessions, and accommodating customer timeframes."

"This is a user-friendly solution."

"The most valuable features for us are the ease of use, the reliability, and the exceptional deduplication that we get across that data that we store on those devices."

"HPE StoreOnce is particularly useful in situations where organizations require a backup solution to store their data. Its deduplication feature is quite impressive, providing a deduplication ratio of around 25 to 26."

"Based on customer feedback, I rate it highly as one of the most stable products in the backup and archiving line compared to offerings like Data Domain or from Huawei and Lenovo."

"Some of the people in our group, like our DBAs and non-technical people, can restore some stuff themselves via Spectrum Protect. That is how simple it is."

"IBM Spectrum Protect has excellent integration capability."

"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."

"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."

"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."

"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."

"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."

"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."

"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The platform's price could be lower."

"Cloud integration needs to be simplified."

"Its customer service could be faster."

"They could provide more options for storage capacity."

"We have lost some market due to the minimum capacity now being 80 terabytes."

"We stopped investigating because we were not really happy with the application."

"The appliance doesn't have the global deduplication, it has StoreOnce deduplication. It does not deduplicate across the appliance, it will deduplicate in one particular store. With the global deduplication, I could store more data."

"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."

"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."

"We would like to see cloud integration."

"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."

"The installation process could be simplified."

"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."

"Scalability is poor. As you get to bigger environments, this is where our gaps have been introduced. As we have grown over the past couple of years, the gaps have become more apparent."

"It is not easy to manage like other products in the market. It is okay only if you are command-line driven. Even though the operation center is there, it doesn't provide a single view of everything. You have to, for example, use TSMManager on top of it, which gives you a far better management capability, but it is a third-party product. Its management needs to be improved. There should be an HTML or graphical interface. It is a very difficult product. For example, you have a backup policy where you want a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly policy standard. It is an old kind of system where you have to keep retention for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, which is very difficult in IBM Spectrum Protect. In other products, in a matter of five minutes, you can configure such a policy. In TSM, it takes you one, two, or three days because you need to configure a node for each of them. If you have 250 nodes, you have to configure each node for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention. If you have 1,000 nodes, it is going to take you ages just to configure and register the nodes. You need to configure the schedule and the CAD daemons or services, depending on whether it is a Unix or Windows OS. Unfortunately, it is a very long and drawn-out process. You have to stop and start the services for changes to take effect. This is a very difficult part of TSM in IBM Spectrum Protect. To configure a backup policy, I should be able to select the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly options in one screen and finish it. After that, everything should happen in the background. All the backup products in the market already do that, and they are very simple to manage. This particular part of this solution has really been a major pain area for us, and unfortunately, we could not find a workaround. There is nobody at IBM who can give us a way to configure all this easily through a GUI or even scripts."

"We have got a perpetual license, and we have access to all the features. If you are using cloud banks, you can store the internal data in HPE Cloud if needed. You can offload the data to the HPE Cloud. It is a licensed product. We have got around 10 TB of cloud bank storage with a one-time payment. We specifically took 10 TB for very critical offsite backups. We can also increase it in blocks if needed."

"The price of the product is reasonable."

"The solution's cost is above average."

"To be honest, we were quite happy with the price, but we always want things cheaper than they are. I think for what we got, we felt that the price was quite reasonable comparing it to other products that provide that same level of functionality."

"The licensing costs is capacity-based and come bundled with support."

"The solution is pretty expensive."

"I rate the platform's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The cost of HPE StoreOnce is very expensive."

"Use capacity licensing. It's easier and cheaper."

"IBM Spectrum Protect, cost-wise, has way higher pricing than Veeam. By switching over to Veeam, my company saved over $600,000 in USD. The IBM Spectrum Protect pricing is a two on a scale of one to ten. My company paid additional fees for maintenance, apart from the standard licensing fees."

"We are paying for support and maintenance on a monthly basis."

"The product is low cost. It is very cool when we design it to using licensing based on post capacity."

"We have been at our size for a few years. We are not really looking to battle the licensing costs, as this is our primary system."

"The product is not cheap."

"It is really expensive. Its price is not good for Latin America. Its price is good for the United States or Europe."

"Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it."