We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and OpenText Data Protector 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 amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"Some of the people in our group, like our DBAs and non-technical people, can restore some stuff themselves via Spectrum Protect. That is how simple it is."
"Data reduction definitely reduces costs, not only software costs, but from the infrastructure needed."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"Data Protector is quite simple and easy to deploy. The deployment is always the same. It's on a server, and the agents are deployed to the machines in a straightforward way. We have two engineers who deploy and manage all our backup solutions."
"Data Protector is very good at automation. From the time of the backup, verification, and copy to tape, it is very good. I don't need to touch it, it will do it by itself."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"It's user-friendly and not overly complicated to configure."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"Ease of use."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"We are having a balance issue between the reclamation and the backup function. It has to take the space back from the tapes before it can record to those tapes, but sometimes those two processes are overlapping."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"In general, you can say that Micro Focus Data Protector is behind in capabilities when compared with other backup solutions, such as Commvault, Symantec, NetBackup, but it is very strong for certain use cases such as array integration. We are using it in production even now. There should be some kind of cloud integration and archiving solutions. I think this is the area they need to focus on."
"Other tools seem to be easier to use."
"In terms of what can be improved, I would say integrations with MongoDB. We use MongoDB and we need to go to scripts to do backups. We need more integrations."
"I'm uncertain if it supports virtual machine backup and restoration. If they could enhance this aspect, they could gain more support from end users."
"The product can be developed by including functionalities like DR, CDP, and SureBackup, which are currently unavailable in the solution."
"It has a lot of undeveloped functions like window searching and patent searching, and within the main backup processes like VMware and Microsoft Exchange. It's completely not user-friendly, and it has no built-in antivirus software. In my opinion, Micro Focus Data Protector is not an enterprise level solution."
"If you compare the solution with the same specific features and enhancements on another solution, Data Protector is expensive. This is especially true when compared to, for example, Veeam."
"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. 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 OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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