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IBM Storage Protect pros and cons

Vendor: IBM
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

IBM Storage Protect is known for its scalability, allowing users to grow without additional hardware investments and supporting various platforms and environments.
It offers reliable data protection, including compression, deduplication, and incremental forever backup, reducing storage costs and improving efficiency.
The stability of IBM Storage Protect is highly praised, providing organizations with consistency and reliability for disaster recovery and data archiving.
IBM Storage Protect provides extensive documentation and support, which is beneficial for troubleshooting and maximizing product capabilities.
The flexibility in data management and archiving, as well as its integration with other IBM products, makes IBM Storage Protect a comprehensive backup and recovery platform.

CONS

IBM Storage Protect faces issues with scalability as environments grow, which leads to gaps in functionality.
There are significant challenges with integration for Windows environments, which affects its usability compared to Unix/Linux systems.
IBM Storage Protect's effectiveness with virtual environments, including Hyper-V and VMware, is criticized for being suboptimal.
Technical support from IBM Storage Protect has been deemed insufficient, with delays and communication barriers affecting problem resolution.
The complexity and time required for setting up and configuring IBM Storage Protect is a concern compared to competitor products.
 

IBM Storage Protect Pros review quotes

it_user671424 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk.
it_user671436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer II at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 24, 2017
It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything.
it_user672387 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
May 25, 2017
The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication.
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it_user672351 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
May 25, 2017
It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix.
it_user601302 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Protection Analyst at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 29, 2017
Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time.
it_user156498 - PeerSpot reviewer
Line Of Business Manager for Storage and Backup at Compta IS
May 13, 2018
It is very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state.
it_user676356 - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM Tivoli Certified Instructor, Certified Exam Reviewer & Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 1, 2017
Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment.
it_user677721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Technician at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Apr 10, 2018
Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression.
JA
Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
Jul 12, 2017
by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window.
PH
Sr Sys Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 9, 2018
A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical.
 

IBM Storage Protect Cons review quotes

it_user671424 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
May 24, 2017
We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem.
it_user671436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer II at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 24, 2017
For the database side, it does not have object level recovery.
it_user672387 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
May 25, 2017
I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one.
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it_user672351 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
May 25, 2017
It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that.
it_user601302 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Protection Analyst at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 29, 2017
The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect.
it_user156498 - PeerSpot reviewer
Line Of Business Manager for Storage and Backup at Compta IS
May 13, 2018
This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers.
it_user676356 - PeerSpot reviewer
IBM Tivoli Certified Instructor, Certified Exam Reviewer & Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Jun 1, 2017
There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released.
it_user677721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Technician at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Apr 10, 2018
I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented.
JA
Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
Jul 12, 2017
Ease of use.
PH
Sr Sys Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 9, 2018
Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind.