Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] vs IBM Spectrum Protect Plus comparison

Dell Technologies and IBM are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 50% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Dell ProtectPoint [EOL]

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50% willing to recommend

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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85% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell ProtectPoint [EOL]

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

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Backup and Recovery (49th)

Featured Reviews

Umar-Qureshi

Deputy Manager at Reliance Industries Ltd

Speedy and easy setup but it needs to mature

One way this solution could be improved is if they could come up with better options to migrate. As for what could be included in the next release, we have shared a couple of points with them. First, the account should be more in balance and coordinated with us. They already communicated to our project management team that they are going to implement some of these features. I would definitely recommend this solution. But as time goes on and new features are getting added the product will be more comprehensive.

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reviewer1656648

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

Offers reliable recovery and backup but needs better ransomware protection

With ransomware protection and cyber protection, more improvement is possible. IBM provides these through a third party, so enhancement is needed. There's significant room for improvement. They are not yet where I want them to be. It does not offer horizontal and vertical scaling. These are areas IBM can improve.

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Pros

"The speed and the ease of the initial setup are both good. It is not complex."

"One of the features I find most valuable, is the good technical support."

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

"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."

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

"The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."

"If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system."

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

"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."

"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."

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Cons

"The product has to be more mature, like to be another six to eight months on the market. A lot of maturity needs to be incorporated."

"The interface and documentation need to improve."

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

"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."

"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."

"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."

"Not particularly user friendly."

"Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need."

"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."

"I would like more integration with security. We need to show the value of the product in regards to handling security. For example, how it handles current malware or viruses. IBM should be more proactive in this direction."

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"The initial cost of the product is perpetual but the support fees are billed annually."

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

"If you need to extend it, it can be extended acting like a normal Spectrum Protect with a long archive."

"The solution is too expensive."

"The price offering from IBM is coming down because it is based on number of VM machines. So, IBM is coming to the market to show the added value of the product."

"Depends on the licensing options that you choose."

"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."

"The price is perpetual, but the maintenance cost is annual. That is, we pay once for the product and pay annually for the maintenance and support. The price was much cheaper than what we would have had to pay for EMC or Veritas. The pricing is competitive, and I would rate it at four out of five."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Educational Organization

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Large Enterprise

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

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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.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

Technical support could be improved significantly. 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.

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

I have been using it for our own organization.

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Overview

Dell EMC ProtectPoint technology provides up to 20x faster, more efficient backup and 10x faster recovery while eliminating the backup impact on application servers. By integrating primary storage and industry leading protection storage, ProtectPoint reduces cost and complexity by eliminating traditional backup applications while still providing the benefits of native backups. Overall, ProtectPoint provides the performance of snapshots with the functionality of backups.

Dell Technologies

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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