[INFOGRAPHIC] Top Backup and Recovery Enterprise Software -- June 2017

The product should improve its GUI. It should also support Windows clustering.

New workloads are not good for storage protect like container or virtual machines. IBM acknowledges that users and partners with companies do it better and integrate it into the product. It takes too much time to implement it in old Storage Protect. It have features for big databases and big data environments. Although, the product seems to be old fashioned, but it is stable, robust and works for the most use cases where a lot of data is to be protected. It could be easier to manage client data. You have to use configuration. It is not on modern architecture. They should change it on the client area. You can achieve a better environment using Protect. IBM tapes serves as an air gap, consumes less energy, and provides a resilient, stable environment with fewer infrastructure and environmental costs. Intergrating it can help store large amounts of data more cheaper than on disk.

I rate IBM Storage Protect an eight out of ten.

The solution is for enterprise customers with a lot of data and various systems. It might not be the right solution for modern environments like VMware and OpenShift Kubernetes. The product is suitable as per the size. It is not useful for small and medium size businesses. If you have multi hundred terabytes of data with 5000+ employees, there are better tools. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.