IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.0 out of 5

28 reviews
91% willing to recommend

214 followers

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency.

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the #19 ranked solution in best Backup and Recovery Software. PeerSpot users give IBM Spectrum Protect Plus an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most commonly compared to Veeam Backup & Replication: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs Veeam Backup & Replication. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Atif Najam

Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Aug 2, 2022

I would like to see continuous data protection (CDP). If there is machine failure, you don't have to go to the backup copy that you took 12 hours ago. You can actually go back to the backup copy made half an hour ago. That is, it would be good to have certain-point-in-time recovery. I would like them to add global deduplication. With deduplicate backups, deduplication will work only with the data of a certain machine or a certain backup set. Usually, the data is repeated across the data of the backup sets. However, if IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides a global deduplication option it will ultimately result in better storage savings.

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Uddave Jajoo

Assistant Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Aug 2, 2022

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as our primary backup solution. Our supply chain department, including procurement, uses it. Also, our finance and managerial divisions are using it. Our top management uses it, along with the auditing department The speed of restoring from a system backup is very…

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ZuzarMujawar

Consultant at Mobily

Jun 16, 2022

The one issue we are facing is related to file restores. We have Unix and Spectrum Protect. We installed the agent because we have a very complex environment with multi-department firewalls. Whenever we require support from the Unix team to do file-level restore because it has AIX we had to look those complexities and decided to have an agent on all the Unix machines. That allows us to restore any files or directory with an agent-based restore. If it requires the entire complete machine to be restored, we use VM restore. I would rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a seven on a scale of one to ten.

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus market share

As of March 2024, the market share of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in the Backup and Recovery category stands at 0.8%, marking a decrease of 38.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."
"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."

Room for Improvement

"I think the graphical reports are a shortcoming of the tool since it fails to provide my company with what we want in terms of reporting. Due to the product's inability to take care of its reporting part, we have to use third-party software."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."

Pricing

Users have expressed mixed opinions about the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. Some find the solution to be expensive, while others consider the pricing competitive. The initial cost of the product is perpetual, yet there are annual maintenance and support fees. However, the price is cheaper compared to other vendors such as EMC or Veritas.

The licensing model is based on capacity or the number of VMs protected, and it covers everything. While the annual license cost is considered expensive by some, others believe that the pricing and licensing are satisfactory and competitive.

"I rate the price of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a one on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is very cheap."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a little expensive."
"The solution is too expensive."

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