We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 16th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. SCOM report.
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