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"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"For initial setup, we started with the blueprints, which were great. The blueprints allowed us to be able to decide if we needed to use small, medium,k or large. Because we are a large environment, we used a large blueprint. Once we followed everything in the blueprint, it was a smooth transition from there."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."
"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"It allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"I am not really impressed with the Level 1 support, but once I get past that and go to Level 2, then we will usually get some type of resolution."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
"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."
"The replication feature is not available."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"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."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
