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 fact that we can take the backup straight onto tape is the most valuable feature."
"The product is very stable."
"Replication processes with container storage pools allow reduction of storage space and network bandwidth, using deduplication and compression."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"They have recently added support tickets specifically engineered around performance. This has been very useful for us when we run into issues where customers are looking to try to squeeze a lot more horsepower out of older system."
"From a tech perspective, utilizing deduplication is one of the most valuable features."
"Traditional storage works perfectly with it."
"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."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"Backup of SAP/Oracle -- they are more robust than the competition."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up our SQL server."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"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."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"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."
"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."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"We faced some certification issues after we upgraded to version 10.2."
"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."
"It can occasionally be inaccurate in its backup/recovery time estimates."
"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."
"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."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"Virtualization."
"The downside of the flexibility on offer is if you over-configure it, it may fail to function as some configurations may not match."
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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