IBM Storage Protect Plus vs. MetricStream Business Continuity Management (BCM)

Good for daily operational backups and their replications and areas like VM backup, when it comes to resting the backups in a cloud environment especially features like BYOL is an edge to IBM over its near competitors. On the other hand, a lot of scopes to improve to have native/application-aware backups for modern applications like AI and microservices.

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MetricStream BCM helps provide visibility and tracking into an organization's operational activities. It can be used for a variety of different things in the Information Security universe and is a great tool to help management keep track of action items and measure things that are going on in the department.

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• recovery
• replication
• retention

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• Dashboards - Easy to read and visually appealing
• Workflows - Helps simplify a complicated process
• User Interface - Intuitive and easy to use

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

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• Permissions management
• Creating complex libraries

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There was a lot of one-on-one help from MetricStream that really made our experience with the application better.

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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus doesn't allow taking backup of the Meditech HIMS application, due to the unique nature of the database and its functionality. As it's a special case, the vendor supports only a few fully integrated backup solutions which resulted in using Bridgehead as a trustable backup option specific to the application.

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• Cloud backup can be expensive and slow

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• Increased visibility.
• Good collaboration.

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