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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.8
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is viewed as a competitive, reasonably priced investment with excellent integration and future roadmap visibility.
Sentiment score
6.5
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery provides cost-effective, efficient protection with faster restoration, minimizing downtime and enhancing profitability for businesses.</p>
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus support is reliable and efficient, with users praising quick responses, expertise, and comprehensive resources.
Sentiment score
7.1
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery excels in customer service with responsive support, technical expertise, and proactive communication improvements.</p>
Their documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting articles, and support people are good.
Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.
The most valuable aspects of Infrascale’s support for my company are the turnaround time and the resolution time.
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers scalable, flexible data management for various businesses, supporting extensive virtual machines and environments efficiently.
Sentiment score
5.8
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery offers scalable solutions from small to large enterprises, with occasional upgrade needs for optimal performance.</p>
The solution does not provide horizontal and vertical scaling.
IBM Data Protect is the scalable solution, not IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.
One person can manage hundreds and hundreds of endpoints without any issues.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is stable and reliable, managing large environments efficiently, though occasionally needing specialized expertise.
Sentiment score
7.4
Users find Infrascale Backup reliable, with resolved performance issues and minor challenges in software backup and local caching.
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.
 

Room For Improvement

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs better integration, user-friendly design, enhanced reporting, cyber resilience, and improved backup and virtualization support.
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery needs enhanced performance, flexibility, and support while addressing import delays and improving tech support.</p>
It does not offer horizontal and vertical scaling.
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.
Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
 

Setup Cost

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers competitive pricing with various licensing models, often seen as fair compared to alternatives.
Infrascale offers a dynamic pricing model based on data volume, with fair licensing but room for improved list prices.
They are fairly expensive.
We recently renewed one of our agreements with them, and even though we were going to renew anyway, they added more margin in terms of a discount for us for renewing early.
To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.
The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.
 

Valuable Features

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers fast, scalable, multi-platform backup and recovery with integration, cloud support, and user-friendly features.
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery offers user-friendly management, rapid recovery, versatile infrastructure support, and excellent backup speeds with responsive support.</p>
The biggest benefit of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is that it's an agentless backup product which is very easy to configure and use.
What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.
Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
46th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
23rd
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (19th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (5th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (15th), SaaS Backup (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 0.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Atif Najam - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Harry Vining - PeerSpot reviewer
The overall ease of use and ease of management using the dashboard is excellent
I can't really think of anything that really needs to be improved from my perspective, because I only use the backup. Maybe someone who is using something else might have a different opinion on that. But for the online backup and recovery tool, I'm not going to say there's anything that needs improvement. They can always improve stuff. But from the top of my head, I can't think of anything. It does what it needs to do. That's it. It doesn't need to do anything more than what it does and nothing less than what it's doing. The Infrascale dashboard when it comes to centralized deployment and configuration is excellent. I have no problems with the solution. They could always make it better. They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement, but there's nothing on the top of my head that's saying, "Hey, this is what needs to be fixed." But, the programmers are probably working on their own things. So, there's always room for improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Healthcare Company
13%
Performing Arts
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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.
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.
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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
I would always prefer better pricing, but I find that their pricing is appropriate. It's in keeping with what we are offering and how it allows us to resell with enough margin. We recently renewed ...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery could improve in the area of documentation, which they are continuously working on. This is an ongoing process that should continue as documentation can al...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
I have been using Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery since 2016, which is approximately six to seven years. During this time, we transitioned from other solutions to fully adopt Infrascale's...
 

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Sample Customers

PT Wings Surya, Tectrade, State of Ohio
MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies
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