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 licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"We like IBM Spectrum's versioning capabilities. It lets us specify how many versions of a file we want to keep and for how long. Also, the archive component of the software helps us a lot."
"It scales from very small to very large. It is easily the most scalable product out there."
"by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The command-line interface is user-friendly and well documented in the reference guide."
"It is a traditional backup model. If you talk about file server and the official Windows database, it's a stable product."
"I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"What I like the most about this solution is that I can change and access the Oracle backup file."
"I like that it supports HPE UNIX servers since many backup solutions do not - this is the main reason why we chose this solution."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"I do not think that this solution is relevant in the current IT market. They have not upgraded their features and functionalities which makes it difficult for them to remain competitive."
"In SAP restoration, we faced issues with changing the SIDs and changing the path for every backup object. It is quite a lengthy process to do that."
"They should design the solution so that it is much easier for deployment and make the UI easy to use."
"If you compare the solution with the same specific features and enhancements on another solution, Data Protector is expensive. This is especially true when compared to, for example, Veeam."
"It can occasionally be inaccurate in its backup/recovery time estimates."
"The technical support was very slow."
"VMware backup integration and cloud recovery is lacking."
"We're not satisfied with the robustness and stability of the software since Micro Focus took it in-house. The GUI is one thing they could improve. It's still a bit archaic. Data Protector needs a more functional, user-friendly GUI."
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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