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 solution is mostly stable."
"A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical."
"It is a very good and mature enterprise product. Once it is set up and everything is put in, you don't have to manage it. It actually runs automatically by itself."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."
"What I found most valuable in IBM Spectrum Protect is that it allows you to back up physical machines, and its proxy feature lets you back up virtual machines."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"I like that it supports HPE UNIX servers since many backup solutions do not - this is the main reason why we chose this solution."
"Regarding scalability, it's unlimited with Data Protector. You can link multiple installations and let them work together. They can share backup devices. You have many possibilities with Data Protector. It's very proficient."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."
"Performs the backup properly and protects our data."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"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 main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that."
"Its management part can be better and simplified. It is kind of a beast as compared to Commvault or Veeam, but they are more user-friendly. They are also easier to learn, whereas Spectrum Protect definitely takes time. They should simplify it. Our teams are pretty comfortable with it because we have been using it for a long time, but from the perspective of a new user who is evaluating or using this solution, it is definitely more complex in terms of manageability. Its monitoring could be improved so that it can even monitor the jobs that are scheduled by external schedulers. There are situations where a database team might decide to use their own schedulers, but currently, Spectrum Protect is not able to catch those jobs in the Operation Manager console."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."
"We faced some certification issues after we upgraded to version 10.2."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"It would be ideal if they could improve their level of support."
"The technical support was very slow."
"Virtualization."
"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."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
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 Digital Guardian. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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