We performed a comparison between OpenText Data Protector and Unitrends 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 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."
"Micro Focus Data Protector's most valuable feature is its interaction with the fiber share. It is easy to use, we use it to back up without any problem to VTLs, and can use the Fiber Channel that is still the TCP."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"It's user-friendly and not overly complicated to configure."
"Performs the backup properly and protects our data."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"Data Protector's granular recovery features make it easy for us to create and restore backups in an understandable and user-friendly manner. With granular recovery, any database or even just a database table can be restored at will."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"It is fairly stable."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"In general, you can say that Micro Focus Data Protector is behind in capabilities when compared with other backup solutions, such as Commvault, Symantec, NetBackup, but it is very strong for certain use cases such as array integration. We are using it in production even now. There should be some kind of cloud integration and archiving solutions. I think this is the area they need to focus on."
"It would be ideal if they could improve their level of support."
"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."
"This solution is not scalable."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"Virtualization."
"If you compare the solution with the same specific features and enhancements on another solution, Data Protector is expensive. This is especially true when compared to, for example, Veeam."
"We have a lot of requests for the Micro Focus team, particularly in terms of the Japanese data pattern, as it's not as good now. The Japanese data pattern accuracy of the Micro Focus Data Protector needs to be improved because there are a lot of false negatives and false positives. We are currently testing this and our product team has been communicating with the Micro Focus team."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"It could be a little more customizable."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"The solution’s UI can be improved. I am saying this because I have seen solutions with better UIs."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"Comparing the features and the working pattern, definitely they have to come down on pricing if they want to compete in the market."
OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our OpenText Data Protector vs. Unitrends report.
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