IBM Spectrum Protect vs Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup [EOL] comparison

IBM and Nutanix are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 86% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

IBM Spectrum Protect

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86% willing to recommend

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

IBM Spectrum Protect and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup are enterprise solutions for data protection and backup. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup seems to have the upper hand due to its simplicity, tighter integration with Nutanix infrastructure, and cost-effectiveness.

Features: IBM Spectrum Protect offers scalability, flexibility, and comprehensive support for various environments and data types. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup provides ease of use, fast deployment, and seamless integration with Nutanix platforms. Nutanix's integration and user-friendly approach often give it an edge in features.

Room for Improvement: IBM Spectrum Protect users note complexity in management, configuration, and the need for improved user interface. Nutanix Mine users suggest better support for non-Nutanix environments, enhanced reporting features, and more advanced data protection capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Spectrum Protect deployment is sophisticated but requires significant expertise, with mixed reviews on customer service. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup offers rapid deployment, especially in Nutanix ecosystems, and consistently high marks for support.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Spectrum Protect has a traditional pricing model, potentially more expensive, but offers strong ROI due to robust functionality. Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is cost-effective in Nutanix environments, delivering quick ROI with streamlined operations and better overall value.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Protect

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

149

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Nutanix Mine Integrated Bac...

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Syed Habib

Head of Infrastructure Security (S.A.V.P) at EXIM Bank Ltd

Manageable and comprehensive and integrates robust backup features for core banking

It's adequate for my core banking, however, I am looking for another solution for all systems. It is not compatible with other operating systems like Windows or Linux, and lacks a consolidated dashboard from Browser Spectrum. This is why I am searching for another solution. The product also lacks any centralized graphical user interface (GUI), such as Jarek Pod, and I am limited to using a console-based text user interface, which my local partner handles completely.

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Ingvar Ingason

Channel Sales Manager at Arrow Electronics

An affordable product that offers a reasonably good technical support

I rate the product's initial setup phase an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup phase. The product's installation phase took me around two weeks. On average, it usually takes about a week or two to deploy when everything is in place. The solution is deployed on a hybrid cloud from Azure.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."

"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."

"It integrates well with Spectrum Scale."

"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."

"The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."

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"Nutanix can converge legacy-style rack mount servers, so it is highly scalable."

"I like the autofill-over feature and the simplicity of the solution."

"We find the ease of use valuable."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."

"Nutanix has its own backup system known as HYCU, as well as its own virtual server."

"We use this solution as an integrated backup solution and it is integrated from the backup provider to the Nutanix solution."

Cons

"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."

"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."

"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."

"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."

"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."

"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."

"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."

"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."

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"I would like to see the multi-cloud improve."

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"This solution could be improved with regards to the hosts that integrate with the platform itself. Each of the hosts integrated with the storage and networking only provide one instance of a backup."

"The solution's setup process should be simplified."

"Nutanix is not secure enough, and it needs to be more resilient."

"It could be cheaper."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM provides an open license policy, which is more like a gentlemen's agreement."

"The licensing fees are between $8,000 and $10,000 per year."

"At scale, the consumption license (per TB) is very expensive."

"IBM Spectrum Protect can be considered an averagely-priced product."

"It is expensive."

"IBM Spectrum Protect has a fixed price and includes no additional costs."

"License-wise regarding IBM, it's licensed per terabyte. And that is after compression and deduplication."

"The licensing is varied. If we have small environments (not many TB being managed) it is best to license by PVUs (depending on the number of cores of the machine). If we manage many TBs we look at licensing by capacity which allows us to use all the agents of the product."

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"On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two."

"Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is fairly priced."

"I rate the pricing a five out of ten because the price is average."

"While Nutanix Mine is extremely expensive for small businesses, it is a very cost-effective product for enterprise businesses."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Protect?

IBM Spectrum Protect is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Protect?

It's expensive. I acknowledge the cost associated with it.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect?

One point for improvement for IBM Spectrum Protect is security, as IBM has not been investing as much as in the past. There is a need for additional layers of security to fill the gaps, which is wh...

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What do you like most about Nutanix Mine?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Mine?

On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Mine?

The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required.

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Also Known As

IBM TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

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Overview

IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery. It is the flagship product in the IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) family. It enables reliable, cost effective backups and fast recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes.

IBM

Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is a turnkey solution that makes backup infrastructure simple and invisible by combining the Nutanix Cloud Platform technology with leading enterprise backup software for dedicated data backup and recovery.

Nutanix

Sample Customers

CERN, Einstein Healthcare, Nyherji, Allianz Australia, TZM, ABT Online, NCT, Kindred Healthcare Inc., Cobalt Iron, TransGrid, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Cash America, Piedmont Healthcare, RWGV, Arkansas Tech University, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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