We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"You can scale the product."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"We cannot live without it, since it gives us the confidence to move forward."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"It is scalable beyond anything my customers ever aspire to."
"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"The fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"Ease of use."
"Scalability is poor. As you get to bigger environments, this is where our gaps have been introduced. As we have grown over the past couple of years, the gaps have become more apparent."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 63rd in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP.
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