Skip to main content
TrustRadius
IBM Storage Protect Plus

IBM Storage Protect Plus
Formerly IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Overview

What is IBM Storage Protect Plus?

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

Read more

Learn from top reviewers

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.
Continue reading
Diego Xavier Rojas
Engineer - Engineering
IT Specialist
Coresolutions S.A.
IBM Storage Protect Plus3 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...
Continue reading
Verified user
Engineer
IBM Storage Protect Plus10 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.
Continue reading
Verified user
Technician
IBM Storage Protect Plus1 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...
Continue reading
Parul Patel
Administrator - Information Technology
Sr. System Engineer
Einstein Healthcare Network
IBM Storage Protect Plus1 year of experience
Log in with LinkedIn to see content from your network

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing
IBM Storage Protect Plus

IBM Storage Protect Plus

N/A
Unavailable

What is IBM Storage Protect Plus?

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

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.ibm.com/us…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

5 people also want pricing

Alternatives Pricing

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

$12
per year per user
What is BDRSuite Backup & Replication?

Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.

Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect

$85
per year
What is Acronis Cyber Protect?

Acronis Cyber Protect helps you safeguard your data from various threats while natively integrating your data protection and cybersecurity.

Return to navigation

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

IBM Storage Protect Plus Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of

IBM Storage Protect Plus Integrations

IBM Storage Protect Plus Competitors

IBM Storage Protect Plus Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsVMware, Hyper-V virtual appliance
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish

IBM Storage Protect Plus Downloadables

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).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews From Top Reviewers

View all reviews
(1-4 of 4)

I am always safe with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 08, 2022
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.
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 Protect Plus Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 03, 2022
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage Protect Plus
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
  • 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.
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
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

Spectrum Protect Plus is great product

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 01, 2019
PP
Parul Patel
Sr. System Engineer
Einstein Healthcare Network (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage Protect Plus
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
  • Can meet my SLA
  • File Level Restore
  • Can clone the VM for reuse
Cons
  • Just learning and exploring now
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
IBM Storage Protect Plus Feature Ratings
Data Center Backup (14)
99.28571428571429%
9.9
Universal recovery
90%
9.0
Instant recovery
100%
10.0
Recovery verification
100%
10.0
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
100%
10.0
Snapshots
100%
10.0
Flexible deployment
100%
10.0
Management dashboard
100%
10.0
Platform support
100%
10.0
Retention options
100%
10.0
Encryption
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Cloud backup can be expensive and slow
Other Software Used

SPP will quickly get you protecting your virtual environment.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 03, 2019
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Storage Protect Plus
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
  • 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.
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
Return to navigation