We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It helps our customers protect their data, keep it long-term, and feel pretty secure about it, basically sleeping well at night."
"With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"It is a very mature product."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"We have been using it for several years, and it is quite reliable and predictable. We are quite comfortable with this solution. They're coming up with new features as well. It has good scalability, and it provides good integrations with business-critical applications or databases, such as SAP HANA. It works as expected, and we don't see any issues."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"In terms of features, they've got it all covered. The features they have are quite good. The only downside to it is that it is for an enterprise or big organization. In my opinion, it is not for a small business."
"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."
"Ease of use."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
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IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 62nd in Backup and Recovery. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. 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 IBM Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud, Arcserve UDP and OpenText Data Protector.
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