IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a modern data protection solution that provides near-instant data recovery, replication, retention, and reuse for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, VMware VMs, Windows file systems, Microsoft Exchange, databases, and containers. It is easily deployed as a virtual appliance and the agentless architecture is easy to maintain. It unlocks the value of your data by improving the quality and speed of testing, reporting, and analytics.

The primary components of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server and one or more vSnap servers. The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server manages all components in the system. The vSnap server is the primary snapshot backup location for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

You can deploy these components in one of the following configurations:

All-on-cloud environment
In this configuration, both the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server and the vSnap server are deployed in AWS on an existing or virtual private cloud (VPC). Enterprises can use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus deployed on AWS to manage AWS EC2 EBS snapshots for an “all in the cloud” data protection experience.
This option might benefit new IBM Spectrum Protect Plus users who want to protect databases on AWS and do not have IBM Spectrum Protect Plus running in an on-premises environment.
The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server is deployed in an evaluation mode for a trial period of up to 30 days. At any point during the trial you can upgrade to a production license.

Hybrid environment
In this configuration, only the vSnap server is deployed in AWS on an existing or new VPC. The IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server is installed and maintained on premises. This option might benefit existing IBM Spectrum Protect Plus users who want to continue protecting workloads that are running on premises and in the cloud environment. In addition to backup and recovery operations, you can also use a hybrid environment to replicate and reuse data between your on-premises location and AWS for additional data protection. For example, you might want to use data that is protected at your on-premises site on AWS for DevOps, quality assurance, testing, and disaster recovery purposes. Also, organizations can use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus deployed on-premises or on AWS to manage AWS EC2 EBS snapshots.