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."Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"What we find most valuable in Micro Focus Data Protector is that it provides Japanese data protection, for example, it protects information such as the full Japanese name, address, etc."
"Backup of SAP/Oracle -- they are more robust than the competition."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"There needs to be a bit more automation."
"They are behind on many things, especially security. They are catching up a little bit now, but the competitors are doing better security-wise. There should be malware detection and prevention and higher security."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"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."
"They should design the solution so that it is much easier for deployment and make the UI easy to use."
"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."
"We faced some certification issues after we upgraded to version 10.2."
"The new backup systems are using new mechanisms for the recovery phases; for example, VM, recovery and testing the backup before recovering it. These features are not available in Data Protector."
"The technical support is poor and should be improved."
"Integration with the market applications must be improved, such as MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, SAP and Oracle. Other backup tools are more efficient with the integrated backups."
"The scheduler setup could be better. We are facing some issues scheduling the job based on our requirements."
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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