We performed a comparison between OpenText Data Protector and Symantec Data Loss Prevention 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."I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"The initial setup was relatively easy."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"What we find most valuable in Micro Focus Data Protector is that it provides Japanese data protection, for example, it protects information such as the full Japanese name, address, etc."
"Data Protector's GUI is the most useful feature."
"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 solution is simple to use with good administrative controls and a console that is easy to understand."
"We work in the banking field. We deploy data loss prevention. Our branch protects our clients' data, credit card numbers, account numbers, and other confidential and sensitive data."
"Users like the product because of its simplicity and the rate of detection."
"All of the features are really important, including DLP for the OCR and endpoint. It will be all of the combined features that will give you the strength to control the data. Every feature has its own uniqueness, different control and will help you to protect the data."
"For detection, it has a great algorithm. It can recognize ID numbers and everything that you put in a policy for the end-users. That is really great for us as an institution where we have sensitive data. It recognizes all the sensitive data when someone tries to transfer it or put in other data."
"There's only one policy needed to implement for all channels."
"We are able to contain our confidential data in our environment."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the ease of modification."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The technical support was very slow."
"Other tools seem to be easier to use."
"Integration with the market applications must be improved, such as MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, SAP and Oracle. Other backup tools are more efficient with the integrated backups."
"In terms of what can be improved, I would say integrations with MongoDB. We use MongoDB and we need to go to scripts to do backups. We need more integrations."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"We need to have agent auto-parsing."
"From a management perspective, it takes a lot of time to manage the infrastructure."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention could improve by having better system resource management, cloud option, and more features."
"That fine tuning has to be done for the customer as well as the vendor. So if I take Symantec DLP, we have to have some final fine tuning but we may need some time developing this depending on the customer. This is an area where something can be done to improve the product."
"There is room for improvement in the remote control capabilities of the DLP solution."
"Agent configuration should be improved for easier interaction for users, particularly by allowing configuration changes to be done on a grid."
"The database is a problem for us, as it's running on Oracle and not everybody likes that."
"There are some features that are not available which are required by every data loss prevention solution."
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OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Amazon Macie. See our OpenText Data Protector vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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