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."Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"It is a very mature product."
"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"The file system backup (by far, the most used) is the most valuable feature."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"What I like the most about this solution is that I can change and access the Oracle backup file."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I like that Micro Focus keeps a separate catalog of our data."
"It's user-friendly and not overly complicated to configure."
"The solution allows us to be able to backup and exchange directly, to backup Microsoft exchange."
"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 version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"We have so many specific technological cracks in Micro Focus, but we are not getting the features, facilities, or coordination between the global delivery centers and the R&D team that we need to express our ideas."
"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."
"Micro Focus are improving Data Protector with every new version and since we began undergoing training with the latest version we have not faced any real challenges yet. However, their support does need to be improved, in my opinion. In certain critical cases that we've had, they did not provide a satisfactory level of support."
"I don't like this solution so much because it's very technical and compared to Commvault and Veeam, it's not so user-friendly. The interface needs improvement."
"The graphical interface needs to be improved."
"The product can be developed by including functionalities like DR, CDP, and SureBackup, which are currently unavailable in the solution."
"We face challenges with its stability."
"I would like to see a better user interface in the next release."
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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