IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reviews

I use the solution for the backup of virtual machines.

The solution integrates with IBM Spectrum Protect. Thus, we can have version backups and enhance retention.

The solution requires much more automation features. Also, its reporting feature for the backup process needs improvement as well.

I have been using the solution as a business partner for five years.

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.

The solution is scalable. I rate its scalability a ten out of ten.

The response time of the solution's technical support team could be better. Also, it should connect with the actual environment to solve the problems.

I have used IBM Spectrum Protect before.

I rate the solution's initial setup process a seven out of ten. It includes installing a variety of patches. Compared to VMware, it requires a lot of planning.

The solution is too expensive. 

I recommend the solution to others as it has been in the market since the 1940s. It is a safe product. It may give away speed regarding backups, but it matches the vendor's requirements. It has slow performance speed than competitors but is very stable. I rate it an eight out of ten.

Our company has 40 technicians who use the solution to backup our AIX for Unix servers. 

The solution integrates well with other tools. 

The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots. 

We are now testing Veeam for virtual servers and snapshot backup but would prefer to use one solution. 

I have been using the solution for 15 years. 

The solution is stable and we are able to restore files at any time. 

The solution is scalable to the hardware utilized. 

Currently, we have old hardware and are planning to scale with a new P10 server and fast network adaptor that will allow us to backup more nodes and servers. 

I have utilized technical support when upgrading and they have sufficiently solve any issues. 

I rate technical support an eight out of ten. 

Our company used NetBackup ten years ago but switched to the solution because it is the most trusted in banking and financial industries. 

The initial setup was completed 15 years ago when I first started using the product and I found it to be complex. Now that I am skilled, I find setup much less complex. 

We utilized SCMI technicians for deployment of the solution. 

The solution might be hard to use in the beginning. After some time using it, you will understand it and see how it is scalable. 

The solution works as expected with no problems and I rate it an eight out of ten. 

My clients are using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for their virtual environments when using VMware.

The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve the IBM Spectrum Protect environment. It can be difficult to administer. The initial configuration can be difficult for entry-level teams or deployment teams, and it might be difficult to integrate. There's just too much content involved in the solution. The documentation is way too large.

In a feature release, they should have some bare metal recovery features.

I have been a partner with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for 19 years.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is very good.

I rate the stability of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a nine out of ten.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can scale well because it is on the cloud.

When I compare the support from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus with most of the other vendors we work with, IBM is at the top of the chart. They are prompt, they give proper feedback, and they're willing to help as much as they can.

I rate the support from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus an eight out of ten.

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The initial setup of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is easy.

I rate the setup of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a seven out of ten.

We use two specialists and administrators for the support of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. Additionally, we sometimes need more help with the store side of the operation of the solution.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a good investment. I've seen over the years the integration and upgrades, work well with the current solutions on the market. You don't necessarily have to buy a totally new solution if you wanted to migrate to the next level. Everything has been integrated into the current environment.

There are a few options available for purchasing the solutions. Overall, the price of the is high. 

I rate the licensing price of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a six out of ten.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a good solution. It works well, but it requires a good budget for it and the training part. There most likely will be a huge CapEx involved.

I rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a seven out of ten.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is used for backing up our data on our servers.

The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its ease of use. Additionally, it does backups of all of the things we need, such as OS, files, and databases.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security.

I have been using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for approximately four years.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is stable.

The stability of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is good.

We have approximately 2,000 virtual machines using the solution.

We previously used IBM TSM, which was replaced by IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

The initial setup of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is straightforward. It took approximately three weeks to set up all of our servers and everything else.

We used the vendor to do the implementation of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

We have two engineers and administrators that do the maintenance and support of the solution.

There is an annual license required to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The cost of the license could improve, it is expensive.

I would recommend the solution to others.

I rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus seven out of ten.

We deployed IBM Spectrum Protect Plus using a hybrid model. We did all the installation on an on-premise environment and then set up an offsite copy on an IBM Cloud.

I use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to modernize the customer environment, excluded some libraries. We are using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for large containers, large capped images from image servers, and databases, such as Oracle and SQL servers. Additionally, we use object storage to store offsite backups on the cloud.

The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena.

I have been using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for approximately five months.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a stable solution.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus's software is easy to scale. However, if it is on-premise, you might need to purchase more storage to store more backups. Sometimes it's difficult because if you are on the cloud, it's easier, but not related to the software it's related to the infrastructure.

The support IBM has is very good. A good center of excellence.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a great solution because it's easy to install and implement.

We have a team that implements this solution.

I rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a ten out of ten.

IBM Spectrum Protect Protect and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are new solutions. I did a lot of POCs with the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and the SP, as well as TSM. These tools were previously known as storage managers, such as the TSM backup solution. In addition, all Veeam competitors and other hypervisor image backup solutions. All that remained was the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and the ability to sell it as a software, software-defined infrastructure.

The feature is known as failover protection or IBM Failover. The primary goal is to backup the recurring hypervisor environment and to create, deploy, and run a fast backup process. This is the primary goal.

We conducted a proof-of-concept on the customer side, and they found the product to be user-friendly and extremely useful.

Its quick deployment and backup are essential. It has nice features. It is user-friendly, it does not require a special environment to prepare the server-side, network side, and other components because everything is already included, similar to a bundle system. 

It is very simple to create and deploy.

It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products. It does not support replication appliances such as Data Domain, ExaGrid, or other DDOS targets.

The only issue is the price. That application should be supported.

I had been working with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for two years.

I no longer sell IBM Spectrum Protect Plus because the company is with Dell. That's why I use NetWare and Data Domain solutions.

Previously, I sold the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus product under the Spectrum brand.

Spectrum is a data protection product in the Spectrum family.

In my environment, we were using on-premises, private cloud, as well as a hybrid cloud environment.

I was a reseller as well as a partner.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a stable product.

The hypervisor is stable, but I don't think it's easy to recover an item level, light recovery, or granular recovery restore. I believe that a simple image backup is very stable.

Technical support is relatable, and their response times are acceptable; their case and response times, I believe, are on a normal level.

I was also selling IBM backup and storage solutions. I am familiar with the Alliance product. Now I work as a solution architect for multi-vendor solutions. My primary focus is on data protection and backup technologies. Also, private cloud and SAP solutions with regard to it.

My primary responsibility is to provide competitive analysis for Pure Storage and other products from HP, NetApp, and Huawei. I also compared other backup technologies such as Data Domain, NetWare from Commvault, and others. I've been in the technical construction of service and solution architect positions for 15 years. I'm currently working on a solution, I believe, with a Dell company's titanium partner because it sells.

I would like to inform you that I replaced Veeam with Spectrum Protect Plus because the Veeam licensing model was very expensive for our customers. They also stated that backup performance and the restore process are not any faster than they are now. The most important thing to replace them is the price because IBM's software price is very competitive and aggressive to Veeam. Price is unimportant to the SPP if they want to close the deal.

The original IBM ProtecTIER is at its end of life.

The initial setup is not complicated, but I don't think it's a developed architecture. It's very straightforward.

It can take up to 15 minutes to deploy. All infrastructure can be completed in this time frame.

When compared to other vendors, the price is very competitive.

Clients prefer to buy a perpetual license, but the majority opt for a yearly subscription.

I would rate the licensing and price a nine out of ten. The price could be a little lower than that of the other vendors, but the licensing model is fine.

Yes, I recommend it, but this solution is not appropriate for every environment because some features must be developed, but in my environment, simple backup environments, such as only image backup, yes. It's perfectly functional.

I would rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus an eight out of ten.

We use the software for server backup purposes.

Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes.

The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones.

I have experience working with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for over three years.

The software’s technical support team is responsive. There is no delay. Whenever we require support, we schedule a call with them. Although, due to time zone differences, some of our teams receive the solutions a little late.

I rate the technical support services an eight and a half out of ten. 

The complexity of the initial setup varies for the number of servers as per different sizes of organizations. For some, we may require only two servers; for others, we may need 100.

It is a user-friendly software. Sometimes, WhatsApp and Google Photos on mobile may crash. In such situations, having IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for easy data recovery will be more beneficial.

I rate it a ten out of ten.

We use the solution for offline backups of our VM. This is because we can have a longer retention period and back up our VM using cheaper storage devices, such as tapes. The solution can be deployed both on-premises or cloud.

The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage.

The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix. The solution can be improved by supporting open-source virtualization like KVM and Nutanix for compatibility.

I have been using the solution for three years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes about an hour.

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster.

You can put single items back with a certain driver. It's useful for operators maybe who don't have much of a clue about the back end.

We've had some problems getting a full backup done. It's very slow and can take a number of hours, specifically when we use the exchange database. Most time it's a problem with the agent for exchange. Sometimes you have to try to restore things multiple times. It can sometimes take a whole day just to get a recovery up and running.

Working on the solution, even when it works, is quite difficult.  

You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively. 

It would be ideal if the solution allowed users to also pick up SharePoint, Teams, and Office 365 items. It should be able to do not just databases. That way, you can have everything, including software, both on-premises and in the cloud. At the moment, for Team, in particular, it's not possible to pick that up, potentially because it includes a lot of chats.

We've been using the solution for ten or more years at this point. It's been a long time.

The solution isn't exactly stable. Sometimes you need to attempt to restore the backup multiple times as it doesn't work. It's not a seamless, trouble-free experience.

We are customers and end-users. We don't have a business relationship with the company.

I would rate the solution at a six out of ten. We haven't been completely satisfied with it at this time. The time it takes to get a backup restored is too, too long. On top of that, if you are really unlucky, you'll have to try to restore the backup many times.

We are a solution provider and we implement IBM products, such as Spectrum Protect Plus for our clients.

The testing capability is good.

It can back up both VMware and Hyper-V in one console.

It can back up bare metals servers and doesn't need an agent. There is no specific limitation for backing up to either the cloud or on-premises.

The API is very good.

The duplication and compression features are included in one license.

Replication feature is available for off site backup. New generation data backup technologies are constantly being developed for multi-cloud environments.

The feedback that we have received is nice and we have heard no complaints of instability.

We can extend the customer's backup storage, add servers, or add new disaster recovery sites. 

We have been in contact with technical support, and whenever we have a problem we open a ticket to IBM. They have supported us well for any case we have had.

The implementation and installation will take 15 minutes at the maximum.

It can be deployed on-premises or as a cloud-based solution.

The price is lower than that of some competing products.

Some of our customers are planning to replace Veeam with the Spectrum Plus software. Veeam is a powerful tool and good for virtualization, but the price is lower for the IBM product.

This is a modern technology that supports not only data protection, but include HIPAA resources and virtualization. It is a product that I recommend.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.