We performed a comparison between OpenText Data Protector and Symantec Data Loss Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easy to use."
"Data Protector's GUI is the most useful feature."
"I like that Micro Focus keeps a separate catalog of our data."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"The tool's most valuable aspect is its ease of management. It was not complex. In terms of features, I can mention a couple of things. For example, if you need to restore a VM, you can do it with multiple streams in OpenText Data Protector, which is an advantage over Commvault, from what I've noticed, having worked with multiple tools. Another thing is the Oracle backups; configuring Oracle backups is much easier in OpenText Data Protector."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"For detection, it has a great algorithm. It can recognize ID numbers and everything that you put in a policy for the end-users. That is really great for us as an institution where we have sensitive data. It recognizes all the sensitive data when someone tries to transfer it or put in other data."
"The solution can easily scale."
"Symantec DLP has many servers, and the solution is very powerful because you can use it in ports, endpoints, networks, and email servers to prevent the leakage of emails. DLP can be integrated with Symantec encryption."
"It has good options for policy findings. You can do granular policy enhancements with multiple options. And the SMB blocking is a very good feature."
"Good end point encryption and data loss prevention."
"The solution is simple to use with good administrative controls and a console that is easy to understand."
"What I like about Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the technical support it provides. It's good."
"It can prevent copying and encoding of HTTP data to various sites like Google, and Webex."
"The scheduler setup could be better. We are facing some issues scheduling the job based on our requirements."
"The GUI could be updated. The GUI hasn't changed since version 6. It's on version 10 now. The reporting could also be better. Also, while Data Protector is excellent for backing up physical hardware, it needs more features for backing up VM images because many environments use hypervisor."
"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"The new backup systems are using new mechanisms for the recovery phases; for example, VM, recovery and testing the backup before recovering it. These features are not available in Data Protector."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
"We have a lot of requests for the Micro Focus team, particularly in terms of the Japanese data pattern, as it's not as good now. The Japanese data pattern accuracy of the Micro Focus Data Protector needs to be improved because there are a lot of false negatives and false positives. We are currently testing this and our product team has been communicating with the Micro Focus team."
"This solution is not scalable."
"Data Masking could be improved."
"Symantec could be better with infrastructure."
"The one downside for Symantec is that, due to its transition from Symantec to Broadcom, there's been a lot of changes. I am based in the Philippines and we don't have a contact person locally for any Symantec."
"Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management."
"We are finding delayed response if the macOS is updated. They need to make sure their solution is compatible."
"This product is very powerful but it is very complex, so making it simpler to use would be an improvement."
"The product must improve its interface."
"I would like to see changes to the analytics."
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OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, Zscaler DLP and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. See our OpenText Data Protector vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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