IBM ProtectTIER Reviews

Name: IBM ProtectTIER
Brand: IBM
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Vendor: IBM

3.6 out of 5

7 reviews
60% willing to recommend

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IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers industry-leading inline deduplication performance and scalability up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system, and can provide up to 25 PB or more backup storage capacity. Combined with IBM or third-party storage, TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway provides a powerful disk-based repository to improve the performance, retention and availability of backup and archive data in a small footprint for energy and cost efficiency.

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IBM ProtectTIER is the #11 ranked solution in top Deduplication Software and #45 ranked solution in best Backup and Recovery Software. PeerSpot users give IBM ProtectTIER an average rating of 7.2 out of 10. IBM ProtectTIER is most commonly compared to Rubrik: IBM ProtectTIER vs Rubrik. IBM ProtectTIER is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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ValereFEUGWANG

Information System Consultant at CFAO Technologies

Jul 30, 2019

We are an integrator and this is one of the solutions that we offer to our clients. It is used to protect data for our customers, in hybrid infrastructures that are both physical and virtual. Some customers use the IBM Power Systems, for example. We have many use cases in our country. We are using…

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Avdhesh Garg

Technical Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 17, 2022

We use IBM ProtectTIER as a short-term backup and archive. This solution is used in internal IT, so we provide it to our company. We're using the latest version of the solution. It's deployed on-premises. There are at least 20,000 people using this solution. The number of clients is close to 1,500…

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Alexandre Tchikalov

Sr. Consultant, pSeries & Open Systems at Glasshouse Systems

Oct 29, 2021

One of the most valuable features in IBM ProtectTIER is the ability to automatically move a workload to the different tiers in the storage without the need for human intervention IBM ProtectTIER could improve by being more user-friendly. I have used IBM ProtectTIER within the last 12 months.…

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IBM ProtectTIER market share

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As of May 2024, the market share of IBM ProtectTIER in the Deduplication Software category stands at 1.0%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The cataloging is the best feature. It takes millions of frames for the backup. It's incremental, so it takes less time to complete."
"Overall IBM ProtectTIER is a great solution. It is easy to use."
"The solution is highly stable."

Room for Improvement

"The backup for a large amount of data is slow."
"IBM ProtectTIER could improve by being more user-friendly."
"Setting up the system to work with legacy equipment is a bit complex at times."

Pricing

"We have a capacity-based license, which is managed centrally for all the sites of my company."
"The customer can decide how they want to purchase a license. However, the price of the solution is expensive."
"IBM ProtectTIER is an expensive solution."

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