IBM Spectrum Protect Valuable Features

MP
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's proven, enterprise-class, reliable, and fast. Spectrum Protect works with a multitude of platforms and databases, not limited to Windows or Linux, making it a leading enterprise-class backup and restore solution.

Another good thing about IBM Spectrum Protect is its flexibility, offering both a graphical interface for younger or less technical users and command-line integration for existing automation tools or scripts. 

This versatility is a continuation of its legacy from Tivoli Storage Manager, enabling full command-line operation for automated processes. 

Additionally, its graphical user interface (GUI) is particularly user-friendly for tasks that don't require programming. So, it covers all user requirements, whether they prefer manual or automated operations.

Data deduplication's effectiveness varies by case. But it comes with some penalties, using deduplication might impact encryption performance, but it's still viable depending on regulatory compliance and stringent security requirements. 

Despite potential trade-offs, deduplication can lead to significant cost savings in environments with high data redundancy or uniformity by reducing storage needs. Although the decreasing cost of cloud storage and microtape has lessened its impact on decision-making, deduplication can still offer a lot of savings.

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Van Duivenvoorde Winston - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

What I found most valuable in IBM Spectrum Protect is that it allows you to back up physical machines, and its proxy feature lets you back up virtual machines.

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JD
Spectrum Protect/TSM Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it.

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IBM Spectrum Protect
March 2024
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MB
CEO at Fischerei Leipold

Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings. By only backing up changed or new data, there is a reduced need for extensive storage space on the backup server. This efficiency contributes to both time and cost-effectiveness in data protection practices.

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AA
Co-Founder -Technical Director at Dot Future

To be honest, there aren't many features in the solution. However, it is a very robust solution.

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Robert Hedblom - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud and Solution Principal Architect at sumNERV Provider AB

The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features. For example, one of our clients has a quarter of a terabyte that we are protecting and the deduplication and compression of that data is in the back end around 75%, which means that it's just magic.

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Atif Najam - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups. It helps us take data backup at different levels to be used during structural disasters. 

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KashifAdeel - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Consultant - Infrastructure at InfoTech Group

The most valuable feature of the solution is application-aware backups.

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HS
Presales Solutions Architect at SAS

The two features in the solution that I have found valuable are its functionalities related to UFS and KMS.

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AS
Senior Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment. It is a very old and robust solution. The product evolves with technology. I have been working on it since it was just a physical server. If we are using tapes, we can ship them offsite. We can build our new server and recover the data. If we use the online application, we can start recovering from the disaster location.

The VM backups are very useful. Most companies use VMs. The solution also provides agents for databases like Oracle, SQL, and SAP HANA. It is also a useful feature. The deduplication and compression feature eliminates almost 80% of the data. We have been using the tool until now. It's working fine. We do not have any complaints. The technology is always evolving. I rate the product’s performance an eight out of ten.

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TE
CEO at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees

There's no single feature. It's the overall product, the reliability, and the ability to work at the scale we are working at. It's that incremental forever approach, which we definitely need for the amount of data we are handling. It's more a philosophy of product, but a certain feature.

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AS
IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

The most valuable is its versatility, allowing users to efficiently manage IBM V and Hyper-V in diverse environments. The flexibility extends to cloud transitions, enabling easy movement from one vendor to another. The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data. Users can leverage it to migrate data between different environments, making tasks like moving from on-premise to the cloud straightforward.

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UT
Service Delivery Manager at Xoriant

The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery.

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JY
System, Storage and Data Administrator at ORNESS

The file-restoring feature is the most valuable.

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TE
CEO at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees

The platform has valuable stability.

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István Dósa - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect at Effective Group Zrt.

Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients.

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MD.Faisal Alam - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager, Technical Services at Thakral

I have found that the most valuable feature is useful documentation and troubleshooting.

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Buyer's Guide
IBM Spectrum Protect
March 2024
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