IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery comparison

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

5.4

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is valued for integration, compatibility, and competitive pricing, with some users seeing quick ROI.

Sentiment score

6.2

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery boosts profitability and reliability, reducing downtime and costs while enhancing protection and recovery efficiency.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

4.6

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus support is generally praised for responsiveness, despite concerns about initial delays and technical complexity issues.

Sentiment score

7.4

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery's support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and improved efficiency, effectively addressing customer needs.

We do not have a good experience with this product.

Christophe LAMAMY

Architecte Solutions at Novahe

Their documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting articles, and support people are good.

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Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.

President at IT1 Service

The most valuable aspects of Infrascale’s support for my company are the turnaround time and the resolution time.

Hans Seidl

President at LET US DEAL WITH IT, LLC

The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.

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President at a media company with 11-50 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

5.7

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus scales efficiently from small to large enterprises, though optimal planning enhances its scalability potential.

Sentiment score

5.5

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery scales well with added hardware, but some face challenges with unexpected capacity and configuration issues.

IBM Data Protect is the scalable solution, not IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

The solution does not provide horizontal and vertical scaling.

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Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

One person can manage hundreds and hundreds of endpoints without any issues.

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President at IT1 Service

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.4

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is praised for stability and reliability, though some report recovery issues and version-related instability.

Sentiment score

7.5

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is stable and efficient, with responsive support and manageable software limitations.

I cannot determine what benefit IBM Spectrum Protect Plus brings to the organization because we deployed this solution with one customer, and that customer changed the product after one or two years because the product is not stable and it changes with every version.

Christophe LAMAMY

Architecte Solutions at Novahe

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I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.

President at IT1 Service

There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.

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President at a media company with 11-50 employees

Room For Improvement

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs a user-friendly interface, improved security, better integration, efficient backup, and enhanced technical support.

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery needs bandwidth control, clearer pricing, improved dashboard, Linux support, security upgrades, and better integration.

It does not offer horizontal and vertical scaling.

Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I used IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, but IBM is now replacing it with IBM Data Protect, which is a giant product now in common development with a well-known company in backup solutions.

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IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could be made more lightweight and user-friendly in terms of GUI features to make it closer to a perfect score.

reviewer1541931

Manager - Storage & Backup at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.

President at a media company with 11-50 employees

When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.

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President at IT1 Service

Setup Cost

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is costly but offers flexible licensing and is valued for scalability and automation benefits.

Infrascale Backup offers flexible pricing and responsive support, appealing to small enterprises, though costs can vary and seem complex.

They are fairly expensive.

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Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors.

reviewer1541931

Manager - Storage & Backup at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We recently renewed one of our agreements with them, and even though we were going to renew anyway, they added more margin in terms of a discount for us for renewing early.

Gregory Lemmon

Co-Founder | Director | CTO | vCISO | Lead Consultant Infrastructure & Cloud at UBIQUITY Ltd

To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.

President at IT1 Service

The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.

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President at a media company with 11-50 employees

Valuable Features

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers seamless integration, user-friendly features, and comprehensive data protection across multiple platforms and applications.

Infrascale Dashboard is valued for its ease, reliable backup, intuitive disaster recovery, and seamless local and cloud options.

The biggest benefit of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is that it's an agentless backup product which is very easy to configure and use.

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IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the software we work with, and the new name is IBM Storage Protect.

Christophe LAMAMY

Architecte Solutions at Novahe

What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.

President at IT1 Service

Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.

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President at a media company with 11-50 employees

Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

51st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Infrascale Backup & Disaste...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

27th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (24th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (6th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (15th), SaaS Backup (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery	0.7%
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus	1.1%
Other	98.2%

Backup and Recovery

Featured Reviews

Has provided straightforward backup and rapid deployment for diverse environments

IT Specialist at Saudi Business Machines - SBM

There is reporting in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, but I'm not very familiar with this area. I always concentrated on getting the customer to do the backup, restore, and related tasks, but there is reporting. IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect. The correct direction is Data Protect, which includes ransomware detection. With IBM Data Protect, you can add more servers for backup. It's scalable, which is a key feature over Storage Protect and Storage Protect Plus, even more capable than Veritas, because Veritas has an option to make different media servers. You can scale the backup process regardless of the load of the customer. This speeds up the backup and restore process for a complete data center, which cannot be done with any other product. I rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 9 out of 10.

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Hans Seidl

President at LET US DEAL WITH IT, LLC

Backups and restores are easy and we can do on-site disaster recovery within minutes

The benefits of using Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery become evident very quickly. You have the solution on-prem and can restore files and servers on-prem as well. You can set up certain virtual machines on-prem if you need them. If a machine goes down or has an error, you can put the machines into the cloud, which is very important if there's a fire or a disaster, where you really have to get the business working again. It's very quick. I saw those benefits immediately; that was one of the reasons we moved certain customers over to the Infrascale solution. They had different solutions in place before and were not happy with the amount of time it took to restore data or perform disaster recovery. We tested it out and ran some server restores before signing the customer up for the solution. It is very important for my organization that Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is available via a single dashboard. I have multiple customers, so being able to see all of them in one single dashboard and drill deeper into the servers is very important for me. Infrascale's unified dashboard has helped me save time. Infrascale's ability to restore data is great, fast, and very efficient.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Marketing Services Firm

Educational Organization

Healthcare Company

16%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	17

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

Pricing is good; it is reasonable and more reasonable than any other vendors.

What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is very simple to deploy for us, but for more clients or competitors, the solution is hard to deploy and to integrate. For our team, deployment of IBM Spectrum Protect Plu...

What is your primary use case for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

We are an IT integrator and we need to have a good vision of all recovery and backup recovery solutions. Most frequently, we use Veeam Backup. We use Cohesity. For some old workloads, we use IBM TS...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?

The pricing of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is premium; if it went down, I would definitely be happy, but I don't want to see it go up. Their margin from what they're wholesale and the...

What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?

What I would like to see improved or enhanced in Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery includes additional features for scalability.

What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?

I can describe a few use cases for Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery, which we primarily use for data protection and recovery.

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Infrascale Platform

Overview

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and efficiency.

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Infrascale overcomes the complexity of creating backup and disaster recovery solutions without sacrificing performance and reliability. We provide fast, secure recovery that enables customers to feel confident that their data is fully protected from any type of disaster, whether it be operational, environmental, or malicious. Infrascale provides data protection for SaaS applications, endpoints, and servers.

SaaS BACKUP

Protect Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce data from accidental deletion and malicious attacks. Infrascale Cloud Application Backup (ICAB) provides customers with essential data protection that isn’t included in their SaaS provider’s limited retention policies. It also protects the broadest set of SaaS applications and delivers ease of use and ease of deployment.

ENDPOINT BACKUP

Direct-to-cloud backup and recovery solution for endpoints. Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) provides unlimited retention and version history, MSI installer and single pane of glass management, and ransomware anomaly detection. This delivers ease of use, ease of management, and protection from cybersecurity threats.

SERVER BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Boot ready in minutes to run your systems when they go down due to any reason including server crashes, ransomware attacks, or natural disasters. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery (IBDR) provides boot-ready time for failover that averages 2 minutes as well as unlimited disaster recovery and failover testing. In order to eliminate downtime and data loss, IBDR also provides a centrally managed Infrascale Management Dashboard.

Infrascale

Sample Customers

PT Wings Surya, Tectrade, State of Ohio

MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery