IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reviews

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.

Our primary use for this is data protection and management using various features of the product.

Virtualization has helped us increase efficiency by working against data analysis almost immediately and without interrupting performance. We have experienced about an 80% savings in effort on our backups and satisfying data safety which makes us more efficient and improves our organization.

Certainly, the data protection is the most valuable feature for using the product but the secondary functions of replication, backup and recovery, are invaluable in helping to protect the validity of the data.

One of the places where the product can improve is in the interface. It is a little cumbersome to interact with and not very user-friendly. If the interface could be more simple it would make using the product better.

The only other improvement I can think of — and again this has something to do with the GUI interface — is to include other features for configuration and scheduling tasks to make using the product more simple.

We have never had a problem with the product and find it to be extremely stable. It handles loads very well and this is important for data security.

When it comes to scalability, we find that we are able to add new features and scale use of features fairly easily.

We have currently deployed the solution for nine clients and hope to continue to grow from there.

IBM generally has very good technical support if we require it, but also we are supposed to be experts, so we do not need to use their services often.

We actually concurrently serve customers using more than one option and the other option we work with is Veeam. Which we deploy depends on the customer need and their preferences.

Our experience with installations and deployment is that the installation is straightforward. It did not take more than an hour to install beside additional configurations and customizations required by the clients. The troubleshooting afterward may take more time, but usually, we can have everything in place in less than a day.

As we are the reseller or vendor we do the installations and configurations ourselves.

We only use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus with yearly licensing fees. It depends on which solutions or plan that you choose for exactly how much it will cost.

As far as advice for people who are thinking about using the product, the product is excellent and it works. I can recommend using it and that you can be satisfied.

On a scale of one to ten where one is worst and ten is best, I give the product an eight. The biggest reason why this is an eight and not a ten is the same issues with the GUI interface and that it could be easier to use.

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 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for our customers, specifically for backups.

What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support.

Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas.

In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting.

I've been working with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for two to three years now.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a stable product.

The technical support for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is very good.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a product that's difficult to install.

Four to six customers use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

My company doesn't have plans of increasing the usage of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

My advice to people looking into implementing the product is to check the prerequisites and manuals and ask for assistance from technical support before implementing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

My rating for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is seven out of ten.

My company is a partner of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

The primary use of this solution is for VMware integration.

Because of the licensing structure it was possible to use Spectrum Protect Plus without to much financial impact.

The most valuable feature is the ease of use.

There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution.

I have been using this solution for a few years.

I have found the solution stable.

We have approximately 100 users using this solution in my organization.

The solution is scalable.

The installation is straightforward.

We used a consultant for the implementation of the solution.

We have four administrators for the maintenance of the solution.

I have evaluated Rubrik and Veeam.

I would not recommend this solution to others because there are far better solutions on the market.

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