IBM Storage Protect Plus Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Overview

What is IBM Storage Protect Plus?

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

I am always safe with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 8, 2022

IncentivizedVetted Review

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

Diego Xavier Rojas

Engineer - Engineering

IT Specialist

Coresolutions S.A.

3 years of experience

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 3, 2022

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

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 f...

Verified user

Engineer

10 years of experience

SPP will quickly get you protecting your virtual environment.

Rating: 8 out of 10

May 3, 2019

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

Currently I am working with several customers considering Spectrum Protect Plus for their environments from healthcare to manufacturing businesses.

Verified user

Technician

1 year of experience

Spectrum Protect Plus is great product

Rating: 10 out of 10

May 1, 2019

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

Spectrum Protect is a great product. It works great. It was easy to deploy and configuration was done within 1/2 an hour. I was surprised by the easy installation. Now we do m...

Parul Patel

Administrator - Information Technology

Sr. System Engineer

Einstein Healthcare Network

1 year of experience

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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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Setup fee optional

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Product Details

What is IBM Storage Protect Plus?

IBM Storage Protect Plus (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect Plus) provides instant data recovery, replication, reuse, and retention for VMs, databases, applications, Microsoft Office 365, and Red Hat OpenShift containers. It is designed to be easy to deploy as a virtual appliance, and the agentless architecture is described by the vendor as easy to maintain. Management simplicity is enabled through SLA-based policies that streamline operations and role-based access control (RBAC) ensures secure, self-service data access to analytics, development, testing, and reporting. Automation is accomplished using REST APIs to integrate with third party tools and solutions. Cost-effective data retention and disaster recovery are achieved via data copy and archival to both on-premises and cloud-based object storage and IBM Storage Protect Plus. IBM Storage Protect Plus support includes data archival on both physical and virtual tape.

IBM Storage Protect Plus Features

Data Center Backup Features

Supported: Universal recovery
Supported: Instant recovery
Supported: Recovery verification
Supported: Business application protection
Supported: Multiple backup destinations
Supported: Incremental backup identification
Supported: Backup to the cloud
Supported: Deduplication and file compression
Supported: Snapshots
Supported: Flexible deployment
Supported: Management dashboard
Supported: Platform support
Supported: Retention options
Supported: Encryption

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IBM Storage Protect Plus Integrations

Hyper-V
Microsoft Exchange
MongoDB
Amazon S3 Glacier
VMware
IBM Db2
Microsoft SQL
Azure Archive
IBM Cloud Object Storage Archive
Oracle

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IBM Storage Protect Plus Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	VMware, Hyper-V virtual appliance
Mobile Application	No
Supported Countries	Worldwide
Supported Languages	English

IBM Storage Protect Plus Downloadables

State of Ohio Case Study

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI, Veritas NetBackup, and Rubrik are common alternatives for IBM Storage Protect Plus.

Reviewers rate Universal recovery and Incremental backup identification highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of IBM Storage Protect Plus are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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I am always safe with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 08, 2022

Diego Xavier Rojas

IT Specialist

Coresolutions S.A. (Computer Hardware, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

3 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros and Cons

recovery
replication
retention

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a tool, which first is easy to deploy, and very efficient in recovery and replication issues; among the benefits of End-to-end policies, Management simplicity, Rapid data recovery, and Efficient data reuse of the aspects that could be improved in the tool is the integration with Amazon web services and Microsoft Azure.

IBM Storage Protect Plus Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup (14)

95%

9.5

Universal recovery: 100%
10.0
Instant recovery: 100%
10.0
Recovery verification: 90%
9.0
Business application protection: 100%
10.0
Multiple backup destinations: 100%
10.0
Incremental backup identification: 100%
10.0
Backup to the cloud: 100%
10.0
Deduplication and file compression: 80%
8.0
Snapshots: 90%
9.0
Flexible deployment: 100%
10.0
Management dashboard: 100%
10.0
Platform support: 90%
9.0
Retention options: 90%
9.0
Encryption: 90%
9.0

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

I decided on the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for the Service and Support, the Roi, and for the Ease of Deployment.

Other Software Used

IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Storage Insights, IBM Spectrum Control

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 03, 2022

Verified User

Vetted Review

Verified User

10 years of experience

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 and Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

IBM Storage Protect Plus Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup (14)

85.71428571428571%

8.6

Universal recovery: 100%
10.0
Instant recovery: 80%
8.0
Recovery verification: 80%
8.0
Business application protection: 60%
6.0
Multiple backup destinations: 60%
6.0
Incremental backup identification: 100%
10.0
Backup to the cloud: 80%
8.0
Deduplication and file compression: 100%
10.0
Snapshots: 100%
10.0
Flexible deployment: 90%
9.0
Management dashboard: 90%
9.0
Platform support: 90%
9.0
Retention options: 100%
10.0
Encryption: 70%
7.0

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

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.

Other Software Used

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

SPP will quickly get you protecting your virtual environment.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 03, 2019

Verified User

Vetted Review

Verified User

1 year of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently I am working with several customers considering Spectrum Protect Plus for their environments from healthcare to manufacturing businesses.

Pros and Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think that larger environments with a higher percentage of physical systems that require backup along side the virutalization environment sticking with a single backup/archive solution such as Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Protect for VE is still the most efficient use of administrators' time and energy.

For small shops that are looking for ease of use - this is a perfect fit.

IBM Storage Protect Plus Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup (14)

30%

3.0

Universal recovery: N/A
N/A
Instant recovery: N/A
N/A
Recovery verification: N/A
N/A
Business application protection: 70%
7.0
Multiple backup destinations: N/A
N/A
Incremental backup identification: 50%
5.0
Backup to the cloud: 50%
5.0
Deduplication and file compression: N/A
N/A
Snapshots: N/A
N/A
Flexible deployment: 50%
5.0
Management dashboard: 80%
8.0
Platform support: 50%
5.0
Retention options: 70%
7.0
Encryption: N/A
N/A

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect and CommVault

Spectrum Protect Plus is great product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 01, 2019

Parul Patel

Sr. System Engineer

Einstein Healthcare Network (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

1 year of experience

View profile

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spectrum Protect is a great product. It works great. It was easy to deploy and configuration was done within 1/2 an hour. I was surprised by the easy installation. Now we do more backups with Spectrum Protect Plus. Workload with Spectrum Protect Plus. Backups are running much faster and easier. I can meet my SLA and management is very pleased with deployment of Spectrum Protect Plus. We are exploring more and more every day.

Pros and Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Cannot back up Linux or Windows cluster. If Spectrum Protect Plus could back up physical and AIX it will be much better. So we do not have to use two products. It would be nice to have one dashboard for Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus. AIX integration would be more ideal. So far it is good product