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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.
Categories & Use Cases
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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
Who Buys & Uses IBM Storage Protect Plus
I am always safe with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
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
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
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.
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
