We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and IBM Spectrum Protect 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's initial setup is straightforward."
"I would say flexibility is the most important feature of the product. The performance and speed are the best on the market."
"Dell PowerProtect Data Manager helps to reduce the amount of data being transferred and stored."
"The deduplication is the most valuable feature because it helps to control the overhead."
"The solution adequately handles data storage."
"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"It is a very mature product."
"The customization and the ability to backup across all platforms are the most valuable features."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"There is always room for improvement. The compression ratio should be improved as well as the efficiency."
"The Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager reports could improve. There should be different kinds of reports on failures, such as dashboards that we can submit to top management or auditors."
"The interface is too complex."
"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."
"Management is difficult and it is hard to determine when things aren't working properly."
"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."
"As a new product, there are some things that still need to improve a bit as it matures."
"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."
"Ease of use."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
"My customers are not always happy with the Level 1 support. Sometimes, it just takes too long for the response to come, which is probably something that needs to be addressed."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"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."
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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is rated 7.4, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect Data Manager writes "A tool that offers good capacity management and product management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is most compared with Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell NetWorker and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Azure Backup. See our Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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