We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Oracle Data Guard 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."Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"It is an IBM product. With SAP, you are using IBM software to protect it. DB2 and AIX servers are both IBM. Therefore, it is a total IBM solution, which helps."
"Data reduction definitely reduces costs, not only software costs, but from the infrastructure needed."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution."
"It is a really scalable solution. We can scale it up. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."
"With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations."
"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."
"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes."
"You can see how the logs are applied, check the apply time, and how far behind the standby is at any given time."
"We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"I want to see better compression than what it currently does."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."
"I think it would be great to have a graphical interface assistant (like DBCA, ASMCA, NETCA, etc.) for initial configuration, monitoring, configuring Oracle Data Guard Broker and all the Data Guard Broker commands, without needing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed."
"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."
"When the data replicates into the standby database there is a possibility of having a microsecond amount of data loss. The data loss occurs when there is a network disconnection between the primary and secondary standby database located in the data centers or if there is a crash in the primary database."
"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."
"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."
"The initial setup is complex."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 30 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. 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 Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures our databases stay in sync between the main and disaster recovery sites". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Zerto, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Oracle Data Guard report.
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