Technical specifications
IBM Spectrum Protect Suite at a glance Backup agent for virtual environments and core applications: Enables high-performance, online backups and flexible restores, which can increase application availability Snapshot management Continuous data protection Hierarchical space management (HSM): Enables policy-based migration of inactive data to tape, leaving the directory structure on disk so users don’t have to change the way they access their files License plan License by capacity protected by the products in the bundle. *IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is licensed by either VMs or capacity - A simple conversion ratio to TB is required. License by capacity used for managed backup data, measured after deduplication and other efficiency features are used. *IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is licensed either by VMs or capacity – A simple conversion ratio to TB is required. Perpetual license Utility license Committed Term License Backup server components
IBM Spectrum Protect
Automates data backup and restore functions, supports a broad range of platforms and storage devices, reduces the data storage footprint and maintains a catalog of protected data.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Provides near-instant recovery, replication, reuse, and self-service for virtual machines, Windows® file systems, databases, applications, and containers in hybrid cloud environments.
IBM Spectrum Protect Extended Edition
Adds disaster-recovery management, node replication, network data management protocol (NDMP) backup and large tape library support.
IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center
Provides an at-a-glance view of the data protection environment, monitors multiple servers, completes administrative tasks, which simplifies day-to-day operations, reporting and enables faster problem resolution.
IBM Spectrum Protect High Speed Data Transfer
Improves replication throughput over high latency, high-packet-loss wide area networks.
IBM Spectrum Protect for Data Retention
Enables long-term record retention with flexible hold and release processing.
IBM Spectrum Protect for SAN
Enables SAN-attached IBM Spectrum Protect servers and user systems to use Fibre Channel connections to storage systems for data backup.
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
Works with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual servers and hosted applications.
IBM Spectrum Protect for Mail
Works with HCL Domino® and Microsoft Exchange.
IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases
Works with Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Support for online backups of IBM Db2® and IBM Informix® databases is included with IBM Spectrum Protect servers. You do not need to install IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases to back up these databases. For more information, see the documentation for the Db2 and Informix products.
IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning
Works with SAP and SAP HANA.
IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Enables application-aware, hardware-assisted snapshot backup and recovery management for most major IBM and non-IBM storage systems.
IBM Spectrum Protect for Workstations
Provides continuous, automated backup of desktop and laptop workstations running Windows operating systems.
IBM Spectrum Protect HSM for Windows
Works with Windows data
IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management
Works with AIX and Linux data
IBM Spectrum Protect Suite – Front End
IBM Spectrum Protect Suite
Available components
IBM Spectrum Protect
Extended Edition
Extended Edition
IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
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IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments
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IBM Spectrum Protect for Mail
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IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases
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IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning
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IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client for file systems
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IBM Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks
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IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management
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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
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By capacity
By model
Perpetual license
Entry offerings (some restrictions apply)
IBM Spectrum Protect Suite Entry – Front End
IBM Spectrum Protect Suite Entry
Capacity
100 TB of managed backup data, measured by capacity protected by the products in the bundle.
100 TB of managed backup data, measured after deduplication and other efficiency features are used.
Optional Addon Features / Purchased separately
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for Microsoft Office 365
Provides backup and recovery for Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft OneDrive. It drives operational efficiency and helps ensure compliance by managing and retaining Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes, calendars, contacts, and shared folders as part of an overall data protection solution.
IBM Spectrum Protect Suite - Archive Option
Provides a lower price for archive data stored on tape or virtual tape libraries.
IBM Spectrum Protect Suite - Cloud Object Storage Option
Provides a lower price when using IBM Cloud Object Storage as a target for your backup and archive data.