IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs INFINIDAT InfiniGuard comparison

IBM and INFINIDAT are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. IBM is ranked #23 with an average rating of 7.8, while INFINIDAT is ranked #76. IBM holds a 1.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to INFINIDAT’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of INFINIDAT users who would recommend it.

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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88% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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INFINIDAT InfiniGuard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

76th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Atif Najam

Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd

Enables organizations to make large-scale recoveries easily, but the security must be improved

The security must be improved. We face a lot of cyber threats like ransomware. It impacts data availability and protection. The tool must provide a mechanism to make resilient backups. The tool must ensure that the recent backups have no ransomware. The backup must be immutable. They must be cyber-resilient backups. Finding a good resource person for IBM Spectrum in Pakistan is difficult. We have to rely on the support team. Resource availability is a challenge.

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Jim Ganong

Supervisor, IT Operations at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fast data recovery for large scale datasets

The Infiniguard (dedicated disc storage), offers a petabyte of storage space for on-site disc storage for backups. Because of this, we were able to get rid of our tapes. Essentially, it replaced our tape backups. We're definitely going to be buying another INFINIDAT array. We do have another location that is going to be needing a new array sometime soon, so we'll be buying another one. The beautiful thing about them is that you can set them up to replicate for disaster recovery between the two of them and set up some nice replication jobs, site to site, for automatic database replication.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is scalable."

"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."

"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."

"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."

"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 API is very good."

"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."

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

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"Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."

Cons

"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."

"IBM has made a decision to withdraw the product and replace it with IBM Data Protect."

"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."

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

"With ransomware protection and cyber protection, more improvement is possible."

"There's significant room for improvement. They are not yet where I want them to be."

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

"It requires much more automation features."

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"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is too expensive."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Depends on the licensing options that you choose."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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By reviewers

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

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.

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

It is probably based on the number of CPUs. They are fairly expensive.

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What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?

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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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.

IBM

InfiniGuard provides fast, reliable data backup and restore for business continuity/disaster recovery. Built with InfiniBox to optimize performance and target-side dedupe to maximize effective capacity for multi-petabyte datasets.

INFINIDAT

Sample Customers

PT Wings Surya, Tectrade, State of Ohio

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