Interim Head of Infrastructure at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Dec 12, 2025
IBM Storage Protect is my primary tool for backup and recovery. We also use it for immutable backups to protect against ransomware. We use IBM Storage Protect for everything on-premises. The benefit is that it covers most solutions that we have. It covers everything that we have. Whereas some products, for example, we have Siebel databases and Oracle databases, and some products do not have native agents to back up those kinds of solutions. The newer products look at those technologies as legacy, so they do not have easy ways of backing those up.
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
Jun 11, 2025
People mostly use IBM Spectrum Protect for protection of comprehensive workloads such as databases, file systems, and file servers NDMP and NetApp, usually in combination with tape libraries or object storage.
The main purposes for using IBM Storage Protect ( /products/ibm-storage-protect-reviews ) are backup and disaster recovery, including bare metal recovery. Additionally, some users utilize it for long-term storage.
IBM Storage Protect delivers efficient data protection with advanced capabilities like incremental forever backups, data deduplication, and compression, ensuring robust storage management across platforms including AIX, Windows, and Linux, while supporting databases like Oracle and SQL.IBM Storage Protect provides a comprehensive data protection solution that integrates seamlessly with various platforms and databases. It offers scalability to support disaster recovery, archiving, and...
IBM Storage Protect is my primary tool for backup and recovery. We also use it for immutable backups to protect against ransomware. We use IBM Storage Protect for everything on-premises. The benefit is that it covers most solutions that we have. It covers everything that we have. Whereas some products, for example, we have Siebel databases and Oracle databases, and some products do not have native agents to back up those kinds of solutions. The newer products look at those technologies as legacy, so they do not have easy ways of backing those up.
People mostly use IBM Spectrum Protect for protection of comprehensive workloads such as databases, file systems, and file servers NDMP and NetApp, usually in combination with tape libraries or object storage.
The main purposes for using IBM Storage Protect ( /products/ibm-storage-protect-reviews ) are backup and disaster recovery, including bare metal recovery. Additionally, some users utilize it for long-term storage.
We use the solution for backup and restore.
We use IBM Storage Protect for storage and backup.