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IBM Storage Protect Plus vs. vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Storage Protect Plus

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Storage Protect Plus (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect Plus) provides data recovery for virtual environments and databases.N/A

    vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AVMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced (or vDPA), now part of vSphere, was a VMware data protection and recovery offering. The product is no longer available standalone.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Storage Protect PlusvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Storage Protect PlusvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIBM Spectrum Protect Plus is available in a monthly license or perpetual license.—
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    Features
    IBM Storage Protect PlusvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of IBM Storage Protect Plus and vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect Plus
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Universal recovery10.03 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.03 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.53 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Business application protection8.14 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots9.53 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.54 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Platform support9.04 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Retention options9.54 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Encryption8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Storage Protect PlusvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Storage Protect PlusvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    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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    Discontinued Products
    VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced is well suited for a thin client environment, and/or an environment that runs multiple virtual servers. It is also well suited for an environment with disaster recover requirements that require backups of everything. vSphere is very expensive, so it would probably not be a very good choice for a startup that could use a cheaper alternative in the beginning, or a physical machine environment.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • recovery
    • replication
    • retention
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    Discontinued Products
    • Maintains backups of all virtual systems for disaster recovery compliance.
    • Supports plugins for backups of Microsoft systems.
    • As with most VMware products vSphere is incredibly easy to use.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Incorporation of more touchless agents for physical servers.
    • Direct offload to tape - instead of requiring Spectrum Protect.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Reports are too complex, could be made clearer.
    • The interface could be simplified.
    • Backups of physical servers take a very long time.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    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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    Discontinued Products
    CloudBacko is the only similar product that I have used, and while it worked by backing up my virtual machines to Google Drive, VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced not only backs up the virtual machines, buton databases, physical servers and more, and backs them up to a centralized location, and has 24/7 live support.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Cloud backup can be expensive and slow
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    Discontinued Products
    • Virtual machines and servers are backed up and secure
    • DR compliance is met
    • Multiple platforms backed up to a central location
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