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."Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"The customization and the ability to backup across all platforms are the most valuable features."
"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"I have found that the most valuable feature is useful documentation and troubleshooting."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"The initial setup was relatively easy."
"I like that it supports HPE UNIX servers since many backup solutions do not - this is the main reason why we chose this solution."
"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."
"It is very easy to use and the interaction with various systems is very handy."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"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)."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"It can occasionally be inaccurate in its backup/recovery time estimates."
"It would be ideal if they could improve their level of support."
"The downside of the flexibility on offer is if you over-configure it, it may fail to function as some configurations may not match."
"The technical support was very slow."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"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."
"We faced some certification issues after we upgraded to version 10.2."
"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."
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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