IBM Storage Protect vs. Wasabi Object Storage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Storage Protect
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
IBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect, or Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server.N/A
Wasabi Object Storage
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Wasabi Technologies headquartered in Boston offers "hot cloud storage," object storage available pay-as-you-go as well as reserved capacity storage which they describe as tier free, and easily manageable. Additionally, Wasabi offers a Cloud NAS option, designed to be "hands free" and require minimal effort from administrators while having no impact on users and applications.
$5.99
per month per TB
Pricing
IBM Storage ProtectWasabi Object Storage
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Storage ProtectWasabi Object Storage
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
IBM Storage ProtectWasabi Object Storage
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
IBM Storage Protect
8.0
6 Ratings
6% below category average
Wasabi Object Storage
-
Ratings
Universal recovery8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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IBM Storage ProtectWasabi Object Storage
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User Ratings
IBM Storage ProtectWasabi Object Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(11 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Storage ProtectWasabi Object Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM Storage Protect is well-suited for large heterogenous environments, with skilled IT staff on-hand. You need a person (or group of people) to monitor day-to-day operations, tweak schedules where needed and be mindful of things that might go wrong. It is also well-suited if you have other IBM products that integrate well with Storage Protect, like Storage Protect Plus or IBM Defender. It is less suited for small companies, with only one person responsible for IT. Employing Storage Protect would be overkill and use too much time of the administrator.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
Wasabi is just simple and easy to use. It incorprates well with Veeam and other backup solutions. The cost savings alone is enough to make anyone switch. Plus thier reliability has been on great. We havent experienced any down time or issues since converting out cloud backup solution to Wasabi.
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Pros
IBM
  • Tight integration with Db2. As an IBM product, it works seamlessly with Db2. You can query what is stored in TSM via Db2 itself. You can also use DB scripts to maintain the items being stored there.
  • Like most of its competitors, Tivoli handles deduplication well.
  • Provides a GUI for browsing and maintaining items stored there. I rarely use this feature, due to the next item I will post:
  • Command-line interface directly from my Db2 database servers.
  • Both client and server-side deduplication, compression and encryption are available.
  • If the requirements are zLinux and DB2 support then it's the most solid solution.
  • Can be complex to implement, but once up and running, it is rock-solid and immensely scalable.
  • Scalability is huge. Can be added onto easily.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
  • AWS S3 compatible APIs.
  • Supports custom policies and sub-accounts.
  • Much cheaper when compared to AWS S3.
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Cons
IBM
  • Deployment and configuration is not easy for an unexperienced IBM Spectrum Protect administrator
  • Operations center uses a lot of data and needs a lot of storage for larger environments
  • Have not seen a redbook about it in the past 10 years
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
  • Id love to see them add a FIPS compliant container to allow for secure storage for DoD.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
Not required, company closed. TSM is not used in my current role at my current job.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
No answers on this topic
Usability
IBM
In the present, a backup solution is a must-have, but then companies start using a solution for virtual machines, another solution for bare-metal servers, and another solution for their ERP. By using Spectrum Protect you can have all of that in a single pane of glass. This way you can have a simple recovery plan for all your information assets.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
IBM
The few times we've called for support we eventually got an answer, but it's IBM and a very big company and getting to a support agent is hard.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM Spectrum Protect is related to the other IBM Spectrum products listed because it is part of the suite and is also the main backup product for backup and restoration of information. With Veeam it is related as they present competence in different lines of technology, often the integration of both tools can be the best solution for clients looking for a successful backup strategy.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
Wasabi is a tiny bit more expensive than Backblaze B2 ($5.99 vs $5 per TB per month), and there are minimum storage size/time requirements (1TB, 3Mo), but Wasabi has free traffic each month up to the size of storage which can save you a lot of money.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
IBM
Not at the moment, but it can leverage the billing outcomes as per the scales.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
IBM
  • Tivoli does well running file-level backups, but Exchange is clunky and restores are really hard. With no SharePoint agent, if you use SharePoint you will need another product like AvePoint DocAve. The web-based GUI console is MUCH improved over earlier versions, but you will still need to be a command-line guru to make Tivoli do everything, and local (node) config files still rule. This product was originally ported from Unix and retains may of its 'nix roots.
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Wasabi, Technologies, Inc
  • The cost savings from previous Cloud backup solution is over 70%
  • Ease of backups - Incorporation with Veeam already in place
  • Our biggest bottleneck for throughput is our on-prem storage offloading to Wasabi. COuldnt be happier with thier network bandwith.
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