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IBM Storage Protect Plus

Score9.8 out of 10

18 Reviews and Ratings

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What is IBM Storage Protect Plus?

IBM Storage Protect Plus (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect Plus) provides data recovery for virtual environments and databases.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Storage Protect Plus has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 18 ratings of IBM Storage Protect Plus's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 9

  • Incremental backup identification

    Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup

    Category average: 9.1

  • Snapshots

    Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Business application protection

    Protection of all applications running in the data center

    Category average: 8.5

  • Multiple backup destinations

    Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location

    Category average: 8.4

  • Encryption

    Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

    Category average: 9.4

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Storage Protect Plus.
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I am always safe with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

Incentivized
Diego Xavier RojasView profile
IT Specialist in Engineering at Coresolutions S.A. (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is a very useful tool that provides recovery, replication, and retention of my databases and applications.

Pros

  • recovery
  • replication
  • retention

Cons

  • Integration with Amazon web services.
  • Integration with Microsoft Azure.

Return on Investment

  • Positive, Simplified data resilience for VMs and a databases.
  • Positive, Support cyber resilience.
  • Positive, Automate and simplify backup administrative tasks.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication

Other Software Used

IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Storage Insights, IBM Spectrum Control

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mainly focused to resolve centralized complex backup problems in the environment, widely used its data replication mechanism to transport/ship the data across multiple sites for enhanced reliability and keeping multiple copies of the data for recovery in case of disasters. In addition, inbuild integration with market-leading cloud service providers gives freedom to host non-critical business data and place them in different geographies. Lastly, popular functions such as space savings flashcopies, compression and deduplication features are a real deal life savers.

Pros

  • Firstly, replication is a real life hack which eases to copy data across sites.
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Plus dedupe algorithm is well designed to eliminate duplicate blocks and save maximum capacity.

Cons

  • It needs better integration with native VMWARE and its associated components, especially while taking backups of VM environments.

Return on Investment

  • Due to the ability to implement dedupe, significant cost savings has been achieved.
  • Replication eases our life by discarding physical carrying of tapes.

Alternatives Considered

BridgeHead HealthStore Independent Clinical Archive

Other Software Used

BridgeHead HealthStore Independent Clinical Archive, Philips Vue PACS (Carestream), Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office

Spectrum Protect Plus is great product

Incentivized
Parul PatelView profile
Sr. System Engineer in Information Technology at Einstein Healthcare Network (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Can meet my SLA
  • File Level Restore
  • Can clone the VM for reuse

Cons

  • Just learning and exploring now

Return on Investment

  • Cloud backup can be expensive and slow

Other Software Used

Veritas Backup Exec

SPP will quickly get you protecting your virtual environment.

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Simple to get up and running.
  • Touchless agents for SQL, Exchange and DB2 take the complexity out of setup and use.
  • Now integrated to offload to Spectrum Protect to provide a more robust DR strategy.

Cons

  • Incorporation of more touchless agents for physical servers.
  • Direct offload to tape - instead of requiring Spectrum Protect.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect and CommVault

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