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 addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"The solution offers very good flexibility."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"It protects our data. That is what it is there for."
"A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"The solution allows us to be able to backup and exchange directly, to backup Microsoft exchange."
"Data Protector is quite simple and easy to deploy. The deployment is always the same. It's on a server, and the agents are deployed to the machines in a straightforward way. We have two engineers who deploy and manage all our backup solutions."
"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up our SQL server."
"I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"There is room for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect, especially regarding its support for virtual environment backups."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"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."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
"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 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."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
"Many of our users complain about the GUI. You still need to rely on the command line interface. Because it originated as a Unix system, Data Protector is still a command line-driven solution, which makes it seem rather dated compared to systems that are built around a GUI from day one. It doesn't affect the functionality, but some people don't find it user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"VMware backup integration and cloud recovery is lacking."
"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."
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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