IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reviews

The tool needs to increase the number of threats. 

I have been working with the solution for ten years. 

I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate IBM Spectrum Protect Plus' scalability a nine out of ten. 

The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team. 

You need experience to install the product. The installation depends on the organization's size.  

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a little expensive. 

I rate the product a nine out of ten. 

I use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in my company for backup purposes.

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something.

I think the graphical reports are a shortcoming of the tool since it fails to provide my company with what we want in terms of reporting. Due to the product's inability to take care of its reporting part, we have to use third-party software. In future releases of the product, I wish to see the tool offer better reporting features.

I have been using IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for ten years. I use the solution's latest version. My company is a customer of the product.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Around four engineers in my organization use the solution.

The solution's technical support is helpful and responsive since my issues used to get resolved whenever I called the support team after facing a problem. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I have experience with IBM System i Navigator. I use IBM System i Navigator and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus in my company.

The product's initial setup phase was complex, but I am accustomed to it since I have ten years of experience with the product.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

The solution can be deployed in a couple of hours.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is an expensive solution since it is mostly used for corporate-level projects. I rate the price of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus a one on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is very cheap.

I take care of the maintenance phase of the product with the help of a technical team consisting of ten administrators.

I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it.

Owing to some of the missing features in the product, I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.

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.

Neutral

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.

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 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 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.

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. 

I was using this solution at my previous job, about six months ago. The company that I am with now is planning to purchase it, although, at this time, we do not have any of these products.

I have experience with the on-premises deployment model, and it was our backup solution.

This solution allows you to create a backup using any storage, and then take another one for disaster recovery. This is something that is very important for us.

This is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape. It will restore exactly, from whatever you have. It's really comfortable.

This product has no limitations.

The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved. It is not user-friendly. This is not my complaint, alone, but everybody I know who has worked with this solution. In order to perform a backup, professionally, you need to use the command-line interface. By comparison, Veritas has a backup solution with a very nice user interface that is easy to use.

This solution is difficult to troubleshoot when an error occurs. It gives you an error number that you can search for in the manual, or on the internet, to find an answer, but details are not given within the user interface. Again, it is just not user-friendly.

This solution is stable.

This is a scalable solution.

We have three backup managers who work together. I am with the Linux team, and we installed this solution, but we will be handing it over to the maintenance team. As both teams work with this solution, there are five people in total.

We are backing up approximately one hundred servers. We currently don't have any plans to expand this location, so our usage here will not increase. However, we do have branches in other cities, so in the future, we expect to use this solution in each of the branches.

I have a lot of experience with IBM Spectrum Protect, and the Plus version has extra features. It includes, for example, cloud features. After we upgraded to the plus version, I did not use many of the additional features. From my perspective, I did not really notice any difference between the two versions. We made the switch because our consultants suggested the Plus version, and our research told us that it is a really good solution to upgrade to.

We actually used multiple backup solutions, but I am unable to name them.

We did not initially install and configure the Plus version. The initial setup was for IBM Spectrum Protect, and then we performed an upgrade to the Plus version.

The initial setup is complex, for a new installation, when somebody does it for the first time. It is not too hard when you have experience with it. Our deployment took approximately one day.

I and my colleague performed the implementation in-house, with some assistance from IBM.

This solution is worth the investment.

This solution is expensive, but compared to other backup solutions, it is fair.

There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. Unlike some other solutions, such as Veritas NetBackup where you have to pay for different licenses to use different features, there is a single license that allows you to use all of the features.

This is a really strong application that I find really useful and reliable for backup, but it needs to be more user-friendly.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.