IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reviews

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.

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.

My primary use case for this solution is for virtual machine backup.  I have multiple environments including public-cloud, private-cloud, and an internal infrastructure.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with Oracle.

The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added. This would be a pretty good plus for this solution because no product at this moment, as I know, offers this feature.

It seems stable. I don't have much experience with this solution in a production environment, but it seems pretty stable.

I did not use this solution extensively during the trial period.

The solution can be scaled easily.

I was the only person using this solution during our trial period.

I did not contact technical support during the trial period.

I know their other product, IBM Spectrum Protect Server, very well. I tried this solution, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, to see what is different. I wanted to know what the advantages were to using this version.

Given that we are an integrator, our environment is one such that we will not be switching, at least for the moment.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward. The deployment took approximately one day.

I took care of the deployment myself.

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.