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Data protection across environments, like even for different deployments also. For example, On-prem, Cloud etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Didn't find any major, but some times Navigation looks difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.


It has lots of functionallity. I serves all kind of configuration including any kind of infrastructure. I loved Spectrum Protect very much. I like command line very much. It is very handy does not depends on browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It takes time to learn. It is missing lots of GUI feature for newly people in the field. Help can be better with more example. Currently, they gave only 2 to 3 simple example. It should include at least one complex.7 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Robust performance with DB2 database backend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Agent installation and configuration are highly inconvenient.
Based on competitors products the architecture is very complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The New Spectrum protect, The ease of installation of the New spectrum protect. The scalability and the Spectrum protect operation centre. The scalability means it ban protect lots of objects per spectrum Protect server. There is also a lot of cost reduction based on the built-in data efficiency capabilities. Data Air GAP can be achieved with the ability to migrate data to tape, public cloud services and on-premises object storage.
IBM Spectrum Protect works with the new spectrum protect plus by allowing you to do data offload. Long-term data retention and disaster recovery is easy with Spectrum protect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The scalability means that the complexity can also be a challenge. The need to understand the policies and the copy groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Day by day successful backup copy and recovery data when it is needed. Our users don't guess about their data is Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some difficulties with primary set up and configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spectrum Protect has a lot solutions. Tape library solution, D2D2T solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Container pool's next storage pool option, it would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I can backup different drives to different policy. I can schedule at different time. I can backup any OS using one backup system event with virtual and physical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It takes time to learn and master product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I think the solidity of the product it just sits there getting on with it job without a lot of fuss and works, it does like to be loved, so it needs careful tending to get the most from it. Once you get it working it just works. The you don't need to rebooting backup servers every month well not on AIX some of the servers I have, have been up for years without any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Think the main issue for me is interoperability between different software products, things like gskit issues when using tdp or snapshot manager issues with other IBM product like SVC, also upgrades always seem to be more troublesome than maybe they should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Main goal for IBM SP users:
1. Very good technical support.
2. The most reliable product.
3. Exceptional features (inter-server/site replication, backup of backup data, powerful capabilities of tuning, etc).
4. Archive copy as separate class of backup data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The price is very high, unfortunally. :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.