OpenText Data Protector Scalability

MP
Individual Contributor at Unemployed customer

Micro Focus Data Protector is scalable.

No one has bothered to take care of the product because we have only been working on it for the last 15 years and most of the customers were satisfied and were using it.

They had been using third-party products, but they recently migrated to this product because it was user-friendly, easy to manage, and agent-based. We used to even convince them that we worked on cross platforms and so on because it is the only platform that supports cross-platform, backups, disaster recoveries via sites, auto applications, synchronization, and consolidation.

We have a number of different features and facilities in the product, but we haven't been able to find any such compatible people, those who can simply guide us or even just go through that. But, yeah, we just stayed in these places.

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Jeroen Vranckaerts - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer - Server & Storage, DBA at Audi Brussels

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a five out of ten.

OpenText Data Protector is complex to configure correctly, but the areas concerning the data and compression are good. Once you get the product to work, it works, but it's much too complex to configure and troubleshoot, as it takes a lot of time and energy, making it not so efficient. Once the tool is configured in your environment, it provides good backup and compression features.

In my company, we use OpenText Data Protector as a backup for our servers, and we have a team of 20 people to take care of the data backup using the tool. My company doesn't use OpenText Data Protector as a backup for our client's computers.

In my company, we have scheduled the process related to backup, which makes the tool run daily around 30 to 40 times.

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NN
Assistant Manager - Data Center at Bank of Zambia

It is scalable up to five users, but beyond that I have no idea. 

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OpenText Data Protector
March 2024
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Marc Schreurs - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Owner at SAN Gateway

Data Protector is sufficiently scalable for our purposes, but our site isn't that big.

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Takashi Asano - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

I'm not sure how scalable Micro Focus Data Protector is because the DLP service goes through my company's SaaS product.

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JA
Senior Systems Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have any scalability issues.

Each cell manager can handle hundreds of clients and dozens of backup jobs. If you need more, then you can add another cell manager and create a "manager of managers" setup to allow for clients to easily be moved from one manager to another. It’s hard to get the appropriate scale on the disk or tape backup system.

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A. AhadAlam - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Systems Group at NCCPL

I rate the tool’s scalability a seven out of ten. Our clients are medium-sized businesses.

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AH
Project Manager and Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Micro Focus is not as scalable as Veeam. Also, I have many customers working on Micro Focus Data Protector.

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it_user567993 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT & BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGER at Meggitt

We haven’t had to scale it, but the way it's set up, it can be scaled. Although my distributor will correct me, I do think it comes down to the licensing. The current license model isn’t complicated, but then it's not straightforward either.

What you have to do, and my distributor will shoot me down for saying this if I get it wrong, but you license the box or your data. Then you license the device you want to put your stuff on. If you want to scale it, you've then got to jump through the hoops to get the right licenses, and then go from there. That's one of the things that we hit first off. Once we got it up and running, it’s easy to use.

What we wanted was disk-to-disk replication. After we got that nailed down, we then wanted to replicate from disk to tape. We were told that we can't do that. We asked why not, and then we were told it doesn't let you do it unless you buy it with a license. That's what hurt, because then we have to go back through the loop of giving the business justifications. This just added to the frustration.

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SJ
Enterprise Engineer at Computech Limited

Scalability is not good because for us if we buy 10GB and want to upgrade there's no provision to upgrade easily. You must consult with the HP support team. As opposed to Veeam where you just buy their license then they upgrade it or with Commvault you just buy their license and then the user can upgrade.

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Sarvesh Rane - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at Unified Data-Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd

Our clients are normally enterprise-level businesses. So, we have approximately 30 clients using this solution.

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BL
System Engineer at tarch

Data Protector can scale up, but I have never used that feature.

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Mangesh Masaye - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at UPL

I would say that it is scalable.

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Andrea Trespidi - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage & Backup Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good, however, being a solution that relies on HW from other vendors (HPE, EMC, etc.) scalability isn't a mess for Data Protector itself.

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AM
Storage / Backup Administrator at Saudi Basic Industries Corporation

Scalability of Micro Focus Data Protector is good. There may be tens of thousands of users currently in our company.

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GK
Head of IT-Infrastructure at a construction company with 11-50 employees

Data Protector is scalable. 

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JW
Virtualization Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees

This has also improved since earlier versions.

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AK
Assistant General Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have 2000 users of the solution in our organization. I rate its scalability as a six.

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NH
Director at Random Group Ltd

Data Protector is highly scalable.

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EZ
Head of Virtualization and IT Services Area at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

As this is an appliance, the scalability is limited to the sizing. There's only so much capacity that is possible.

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SB
Project Team Lead at Microlink.in

In terms of scalability, we're already using it throughout our entire data center. There are no limitations when it comes either host or data backups; you simply need to buy the appropriate licenses and scale up as required.

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RagidKader - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Solutions Architect at New York University
it_user330159 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, we still two Data Protector installations, (known as Cells in in DP terminology). One cell manages the Data Centre backup/restores and the other the divisional side of things. At some point in time, we will probably consolidate into a single cell, (or manager of managers) configuration, but we have no current technical or business driver for this move.

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XT
Backup Administrator Individual Contributor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Micro Focus Data Protector is scalable. It's quite simple as we can just add on more media to fulfill all the requirements. Right now, a few thousand people use this solution in our organization.

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it_user435672 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

There were some scalability issues. In the older version 7.0, we reached the clients limit (500, if I'm not wrong).

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it_user503607 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

We did not have any scalability issues. One of the shining attributes of Data Protector is its scalability.

Data Protector can easily coordinate and maintain any user's storage deployment, regardless of the complexity. This includes:

  • Backing up a single server with a hand loaded DDS tape
  • Entire multi-petabyte data centers with remote site coverage
  • On-site/off-site storage duplication
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it_user568137 - PeerSpot reviewer
Distribution Engineering Specialist at Saudi Electricity Company

This tool is scalable.

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OmobolajiOlaloku - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Scalability is very good. Right now, we have ten users, including backup administrators, compliance, and audit. The backups run every day.

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it_user354912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services

There have been no issues scaling it.

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it_user568086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Security Manager at Aspen Insurance Group

We have scaled out and, therefore, needed the software to scale with that technology. We have a global backup solution, so it has been scalable in that respect.

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it_user418371 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator Staff / E4J with 1,001-5,000 employees

When we need to upgrade or increase scalability, the procedure is quick and painless.

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it_user330153 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical System Analyst at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

No issues encountered. What I like about it is that you are licensed per drives not how many clients/agents are installed. It can support various filesystem types (HFS, VXFS, Windows, etc.), and use a databases utility like RMAN to backup to other disk or tapes.

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OZ
Infrastructure Section Head at Citystars Properties

The scalability is good. 

We have three users using this application: Infrastructure section head, one senior infrastructure administrator, and one infrastructure administrator.

We require two staff members for the maintenance of this solution. We use this solution daily. 

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it_user334902 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Basis & Systems Administrator at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user567783 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

It is scalable. It's not as scalable as HPE would like to think it is. I think the biggest problem we have with backups now is network utilization. Most backups will throttle your network, because you're shipping a lot of data around. Because of that, I've had to break up the whole service into smaller segments in order to back it up more easily. You've only got 24 hours in a day, ultimately, so you can only backup so much data in that time. That was a problem we were having, where backups were taking more than a day to run. As we scale, the backups are more challenging time-wise. Now, there are ways around that. I'm just about to start a new project on Data Protector to look in at the VMware plugin because we are virtualized. I believe that will help a lot with my network throughput.

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Andrea Trespidi - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage & Backup Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is okay although there are issues regarding the database. If you're installing the solution in a physical machine, and you have to extend the database, it's not so easy.  With virtual machines, it's easy to extend it. Scalability depends on the type of installation. I suggest deploying the core as a manager that contains the database, then if you need to scale up storage, you can easily extend the virtual disk in a short time.

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AS
Head, IT Network, Security & Data Center at ARABSAT

The product is scalable, but it depends on the vendor's license as well as the customer's infrastructure.

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SR
Sr. Manager - IT Systems at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

The product is scalable. If a company wants to expand it, it can do so. It's not a problem. 

We have less than 100 people on the solution right now. 

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it_user381594 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had any issues with scalability. Higher scalability is reached by purchasing more licenses.

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it_user567924 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable. It has a nice relationship to the hardware that HPE has.

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it_user567897 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Rolls Royce

Data Protector is software used to make backups of the system. What I expect from the software itself is that it provides us with the ability to do whatever we need to do. So, for example, if you have a new OS version, Data Protector brings up the software, and gets it running, also in the new version.

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JM
Founder at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

It's scalable. You can have multiple Cell Managers. For example, let's say your environment is very large. You can have the backup server dedicated to a certain group of targets, and then you can have multiple backup servers. You can have another backup server that manages the other backup servers, which means now you can have a global view of all the backup servers. 

At the same time, when it comes to storage, you can integrate it into several storage areas. Instead of just using tape, you can use the backup directly to disk. That means even the disk capacity can scale up to many terabytes depending on the storage you are using.

In terms of users, I can't say we have so many users as we are an enterprise, and within an enterprise, there'll be people dedicated to managing the backup. 

As we have a couple of hundreds of systems that we are backing up, I would say that we use it quite extensively.

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it_user548295 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No problem with the scalability. There are many agents, anything I need, I can buy agents and do it with Data Protector. It's very scalable. But it's costly when we need to scale it.

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it_user567564 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

With scalability, there are a few limitations. However, the product is pretty fair in terms of scalability.

It's limited to certain platforms. It could cover a wider variety of platforms more easily and not be so cost-intensive.

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it_user415407 - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate IT Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had issues scaling it.

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it_user405447 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Consultant at NIIT Technologies Limited

There have been no issues with the scalability.

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it_user384222 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant with 51-200 employees

We've had no issues with scalability since implementing the PostgreSQL database.

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it_user381021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Technology Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The product scales very well and cost-effectively.

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it_user567678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Recruitment Manager at Bank of Georgia

It is scalable. I think it would be a great idea to show it to my colleagues and have them join us in using it.

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it_user568185 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Specialist at Atea Sverige AB

The scalability could be a bit better, actually, because that connects to the stability question. You don't enforce new functionalities in a stable product unless you're willing to accept some disturbances or destabilization of the product.

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it_user568194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Systems and Data Services at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This tool is scalable.

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it_user567825 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Specialist at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's pretty scalable. Now we're on HPE Data Protector version 9.0, so you only have a single Cell Manager. We roll out globally so there's no issues with that side of it.

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it_user414069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I haven't had any issues with scalability.

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it_user384924 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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it_user342660 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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PR
Operations Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 1-10 employees

The solution is scalable. There are approximately 10 users using it in my organization.

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it_user611967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The migration to Data Protector 9 was a nightmare. Migrating to another version is really complicated. Adding more servers is easy.

When I tried to migrate the catalog, the history of backups got lost. HPE was working on a fix.

It's important that data history remains in all migrations. Otherwise, the solution cannot be used on environments with long expiration dates, such as in a bank where data must be kept for ten years.

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Yilak Yigezu - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at united system integrators

I have found Micro Focus Data Protector to be scalable.

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NP
Alliance Manager at Berca Hardaya Perkasa

This solution is not scalable.

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it_user380181 - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup & Recovery specialist at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues with scaling it.

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it_user387966 - PeerSpot reviewer
Researcher at a university with 501-1,000 employees

We only have one terminal shelf so we have only one data center, but they are all backed up, so scalability works just fine. We don't really have a large environment to manage.

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ZC
Project Engineer at Tunelec

Regarding scalability, it's unlimited with Data Protector. You can link multiple installations and let them work together. They can share backup devices. You have many possibilities with Data Protector. It's very proficient.

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it_user567837 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're running quite old versions. We're now running unsupported versions.

However, when it was relevant for this kind of work, the product was fairly stable.

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it_user381045 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The software itself is a very robust solution. The database in new PostgreSQL architecture allows a large cell without problems.

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it_user10158 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technical coordinator at a engineering company with 201-500 employees

No issues encountered.

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TP
Technical Manager at ONE Corp.

It is scalable. We use it for our data center and website.

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it_user385245 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues scaling it.

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AA
Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Micro Focus Data Protector is an easily scalable solution.

We have six people in my company using it.

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it_user437310 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issue with scalability until now for mid-level datacenters.

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it_user381510 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT SysAdmin at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had any issues with scalability of the solution itself. The only thing that holds it back are the licenses we've had to purchase to run more jobs.

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it_user339234 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user366666 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation Team Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the 300 series servers. We've determined that it won't scale any more for us while we researched an alternative backup solution. Have have 90% virtualization now that we're suing VMware and CommVault.

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it_user339216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Administrador dedicado at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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AW
Senior IT Manager with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is very nice.

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it_user330393 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were problems in v7 and earlier, but they have been addressed now.

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it_user389994 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Administrator with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues scaling it.

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it_user321693 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user453399 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

It's designed for enterprise businesses. We're a small to medium business. It's more than perfect for us.

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it_user568134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is quite scalable.

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it_user402048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems support and operations manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues with the scalability.

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it_user321039 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Supervisor at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user487941 - PeerSpot reviewer
Diretor Tecnico

Same as above.

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it_user320259 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO Infrastructure, Tehcnical Support, & Operations at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user335142 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Tekniker at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user334893 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user620592 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had scalability issues.

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it_user325044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at a engineering company

No issues encountered.

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it_user320148 - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user334896 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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Buyer's Guide
OpenText Data Protector
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText Data Protector. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.