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 software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"The solution offers very good flexibility."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"The interface is easy to use."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"The dashboards in Micro Focus Data Protector are very good. They are similar to the dashboards in Veeam Backup & Replication."
"Data Protector's granular recovery features make it easy for us to create and restore backups in an understandable and user-friendly manner. With granular recovery, any database or even just a database table can be restored at will."
"It is very easy to use and the interaction with various systems is very handy."
"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 initial setup was relatively easy."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."
"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"There have been scalability issues. The core product does not support scale out. We needed to create a new system and manage resources separate from the existing one."
"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."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"Technical support could be improved."
"We have had some problems about using storage agents on the X6 environment. It is not quite stable, but it is also not supported in a virtualized environment."
"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."
"The technical support was very slow."
"I would like to see a better user interface in the next release."
"Virtualization."
"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."
"People prefer Veeam because the interface is easier, and Data Protector is difficult in comparison."
"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."
"They should design the solution so that it is much easier for deployment and make the UI easy to use."
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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