IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is named One of the 2020 "Top 5 SME AWS Cloud Backup Solutions"
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus SME AWS Cloud
Backup Solution Profile
Upon DCIG’s completion of reviewing multiple, available SME AWS cloud backup solutions, DCIG ranked IBM Spectrum Protect Plus as a TOP 5 solution. IBM demonstrates its continuing ability to adapt Spec- trum Protect Plus to meet the new demands of AWS cloud backup. Available in the AWS marketplace, SMEs may deploy Spectrum Protect Plus as an AWS VM or on an AWS Bare Metal or EC2 instance. IBM makes an AWS CloudFormation template available to accelerate and simplify its provisioning and configuration in the AWS cloud.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offers the following features that help distinguish it from other TOP 5 offerings:
- A hybrid deployment option. SMEs adopting AWS may need to continue protecting applications on-premises in addition to those running in the AWS cloud. SMEs may deploy IBM Spectrum Protect Plus on-premises and in the AWS Cloud to protect VMs, databases, and applications, including SaaS offerings such as Microsoft Office 365, running in a hybrid cloud environment. AWS workload support includes EC2 instances, VMware virtual machines, databases, Windows file systems, and Microsoft Exchange.
- Protects logical application groupings of containers hosted in Kubernetes. In 2019, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation surveyed individuals in the software, technology, and professional services industries. It found 78 percent of them already use Kubernetes in production.5 When deployed on-premises, Spectrum Protect Plus protects persistent volumes in a Kubernetes environ- ment. It can create SLA policies that govern snapshots, backups, replication, and data retention. As SMEs build new applications using containers, developers can use these labels to protect logical application groupings instead of individual volumes. They may also back up and recover logical persistent volumes associated with Kubernetes namespaces.
- Supports multiple object stores for cost-effective data retention and archiving. SMEs cannot always keep all their backup data in the AWS S3 storage cloud. Some need to bring this data back on-premises or store it in other clouds to satisfy application, archival, or compliance requirements. Using Spectrum Protect Plus, they may copy data to other object stores, to include on-premises object stores. They can also use Spectrum Protect Plus to further lower storage costs in Amazon S3 by placing data on S3 Glacier
SOLUTION - IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
COMPANY: IBM - One New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504, (914) 499-1900
www.ibm.com/spectrum/protect-plus
DISTINGUISHING AWS CLOUD BACKUP FEATURES OF IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT PLUS
- A hybrid deployment option
- Protects logical application groupings
- of containers hosted in Kubernetes
- Supports multiple object stores for
- cost-effective data retention and archiving
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF TOP 5 SME AWS CLOUD BACKUP SOLUTIONS
- Available in all compatible AWS regions
- May place backup stores on S3 object stores
- in different AWS regions
- Provide technical support in four hours or less
SOLUTION FEATURES EVALUATED:
- Backup administration
- Backup capabilities
- Configuration, licensing, and pricing
- Recovery and restores
- Snapshot administration
- Support
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