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What is IBM Storage Protect?
IBM Storage Protect™ provides comprehensive data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and a wide range of applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server. Clients can reduce backup infrastructure costs with built-in data efficiency capabilities and the ability to migrate or copy data to tape, public cloud services, and on-premises object storage. IBM Storage Protect can also store IBM Storage Protect Plus data, allowing companies to take advantage of their existing investment for long-term data retention and disaster recovery.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
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81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+89 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love IBM Storage Protect?
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Acts with Integrity
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Feature Ratings
Virtual Machine Backup
Analytics
Application Awareness
Backup Automation
Replication for High Availability
Integration With Storage Arrays
Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery
Deduplication Implementation
Backup of Cloud Based Data
Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms
File Explorer Granular Restore
Vendor Capability Ratings
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Implementation
Vendor Support
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
IBM Storage Protect Reviews
Harry M.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2023
Secure Yours Cloud Data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Storage Protect from other similar products?
Its a tool that any organization should embrace. The tool with the ease of use and customization, it allows you to protect all your data and recover it in case of disaster and resilient recovery of data. You are able to create a wonderful and effective data back up. Your data is always protected with the tool.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ease of customization and user friendly interface. The tool is responsive and meets the requirement.
What do you dislike most about this product?
For the time of usage, nothing that i have found to be annoying about the tool.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Everything about the tool is worthy. Highly recommended.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Sandy F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Feb 2025
Proven data orchestration product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Storage Protect from other similar products?
IBM Storage Protect offers the best deal for data security and storage with proven track record.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The platform has initiated data automation services that covers storage and backup demands across the enterprise. It has reduced data storage costs with strategic storage system that offers flexible prices. IBM Storage Protect provides instant security notifications when there is potential cyber attacks.
What do you dislike most about this product?
We have received long term solution for data protection and management with this IBM Storage Protect.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
IBM Storage Protect offers comprehensive data protection and technical support for best file management practices.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy

Rahul S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2025
Excellent and Efficient Solution to Protect Data
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Storage Protect from other similar products?
One can accelerate and use available bandwidth over high latency WAN Very easy to setup new backups
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Reduce the chance of losing data, and can access and recover necessary files even remotely.
What do you dislike most about this product?
As i dont see much negative sides but the pricing for implementation of tool can be reconsidered which is also a very very minor impact.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider cost as this could be the deciding factor t is very best in all four aspects like data replication
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity