We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The stability has been great."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 16th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. SCOM report.
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