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."Data reduction definitely reduces costs, not only software costs, but from the infrastructure needed."
"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."
"It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"I like that Micro Focus keeps a separate catalog of our data."
"Data Protector's GUI is the most useful feature."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Data Protector is its integration with VMware. A lot of software these days integrates with VMware, and you can run some of these things on virtual machines. You can even have your backup manager running on a virtual machine and use physical managers to move data around. Their VMware integration isn't too bad, but Commvault has that feature, and many other backup products do."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"The technical support was very slow."
"OpenText Data Protector is more difficult to use and configure than OpenText VIM. The user-friendliness of OpenText Data Protector has to be increased, and the complexity of the tool needs to be reduced."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"The online backups of Office 365 have room for improvement. This is now available for the Exchange Online part of Office 365, but we're still waiting for SharePoint Online, Teams, etc. We know that it's coming, but it takes time."
"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."
"VMware backup integration and cloud recovery is lacking."
"Virtualization."
"Micro Focus Data Protector must improve its overall evolution record. They need to focus on hardware based instant recovery, client recovery, and cloud ability. Now there is no cloud ability."
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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