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."It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"It saves you a lot of storage."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."
"The interface is easy to use."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup process for the solution is easy."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"It's user-friendly and not overly complicated to configure."
"Data Protector's GUI is the most useful feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward if you understand Data Protector."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up our SQL server."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"Replication of data could be more user friendly."
"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"In SAP restoration, we faced issues with changing the SIDs and changing the path for every backup object. It is quite a lengthy process to do that."
"They should design the solution so that it is much easier for deployment and make the UI easy to use."
"I would like to see a better user interface in the next release."
"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."
"Virtualization."
"The graphical interface needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
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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