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Pros
"Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution.""The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings.""IBM Spectrum Protect is stable.""We cannot live without it, since it gives us the confidence to move forward.""With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed.""The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR).""The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup.""It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."

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"The tool's backup engine is very powerful. Previously, our client finished backup with HPE product in 48 hours. IBM Storage Protect completes backup in 8 hours.""The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future."

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Cons
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool.""The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface.""There is room for improvement in the service aspect.""My customers are not always happy with the Level 1 support. Sometimes, it just takes too long for the response to come, which is probably something that needs to be addressed.""It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon.""I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse.""The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it.""When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."

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"The solution is expensive.""The product should improve its GUI. It should also support Windows clustering."

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  • "Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it."
  • "Licensing can be either complicated or simple depending on what type of licensing you wish to use and what works best for your environment."
  • "At scale, the consumption license (per TB) is very expensive."
  • "Use capacity licensing. It's easier and cheaper."
  • "We worked our licensing into a capacity model, which is nice. Now, everything is much simpler to manage from a licensing perspective.​"
  • "We chose IBM Spectrum Protect, because they actually have something called MSP pricing, which means managed services provider pricing. The pricing was attractive, and it seems to be a platform that IBM is totally investing on in terms of new functions and new capabilities."
  • "Spectrum Protect is not expensive, and it is simple to use."
  • "It is very scalable, but the downside is that it costs money."
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  • "IBM Storage Protect is not expensive and fits the needs of all business types. The licensing is based on a capacity-based model. You can take a license for one, two, or three terabytes."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Customers need a clearer understanding of how to implement IBM Spectrum. However, issues revolve around financial constraints. If you lack the correct service contract, resolving problems can be… more »
    Top Answer:The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future.
    Top Answer:The solution is expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a three out of ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap.
    Top Answer:New workloads are not good for storage protect like container or virtual machines. IBM acknowledges that users and partners with companies do it better and integrate it into the product. It takes too… more »
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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 Storage Protect is a data backup and recovery software. Storage Protect is part of the software defined storage products in the IBM Storage portfolio. For backup and recovery of SaaS applications, see Storage Protect for Cloud.

    IBM Storage Protect provides comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments and a wide range of applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server. Clients can reduce backup infrastructure costs with built-in data efficiency capabilities and the ability to migrate or copy data to tape, public cloud services, and on-premises object storage. IBM Storage Protect can also store IBM Storage Protect Plus data, allowing companies to take advantage of their existing investment for long-term data retention and disaster recovery.

    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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    Healthcare Company13%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Insurance Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Retailer8%
    Government8%
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IBM Storage Protect is ranked 41st in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IBM Storage Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Storage Protect writes "A stable enterprise solution for backup and restore". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas IBM Storage Protect is most compared with .

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