2019-06-04T07:43:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Guardium Data Protection?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Olawale Ayuba - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2024-01-02T10:16:00Z
Jan 2, 2024

IBM solutions have fair price strategy, and operates on a yearly basis. If it's a SaaS solution, then you can opt for yearly basis.

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DL
Real User
Top 20
2023-12-01T08:32:20Z
Dec 1, 2023

The product's pricing is reasonable and affordable. It is in the moderate range.

KA
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-10-18T12:20:14Z
Oct 18, 2023

The solution has a reasonable and competitive price. FortiDB is cheaper, but it doesn't provide full functionality. You can get cheaper products if you want a product to cover the audit point and don't care about the functionality. If you need a functional solution to help you, you should consider Guardium.

Ile Ristov - PeerSpot reviewer
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Top 10
2023-08-07T12:58:00Z
Aug 7, 2023

The solution's pricing was higher before it was acquired. The policy should be for smaller customers to have SMB pricing and for bigger customers to have bigger pricing. On a scale from one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is very high price, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten.

Usman Rasool - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2023-02-19T07:40:00Z
Feb 19, 2023

It is a very costly product. I mark it a four or five out of ten because it's ridiculous sometimes. For instance, if you would like to add a few instances, the IBM team will tell you that you need to acquire a certain amount of DB licenses to integrate such instances into your existing portfolio. So it is quite a hefty amount.

QN
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-11-17T15:44:52Z
Nov 17, 2022

The price is good for the quality of the solution.

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VT
Real User
Top 10
2022-10-10T19:23:44Z
Oct 10, 2022

There are various licensing models.

Farkhund Abbas - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-08-11T11:33:54Z
Aug 11, 2022

My company purchased IBM Guardium Data Protection in a package, so I'm unable to give its exact licensing cost, but for the package of three IBM solutions, it wasn't very expensive. I'd rate the pricing for all three solutions three out of five. When my team deployed IBM Guardium Data Protection, all features were included.

AF
Real User
Top 10
2022-06-16T12:13:00Z
Jun 16, 2022

We pay for a yearly license, and the price is reasonable.

CR
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-05-08T05:51:30Z
May 8, 2022

Guardium's pricing is quite high, but it gives good value for money for all sizes of enterprises, especially for partners.

AsifIqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-05-06T10:32:49Z
May 6, 2022

Licensing costs are higher than other solutions on the market. It's part of our concern and one of the reasons we are discontinuing the use of this solution.

DevidharsanJ - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-04-11T18:30:00Z
Apr 11, 2022

The cost depends on the number of databases. You can purchase advanced licenses, but the standard license is calculated based on the number of databases you have to onboard.

VG
Real User
2021-12-15T17:35:00Z
Dec 15, 2021

The cost of this product is reasonable but could be lowered to a more competitive level.

RM
Real User
2021-12-03T13:53:00Z
Dec 3, 2021

We pay yearly.

AK
Real User
2021-11-10T11:02:00Z
Nov 10, 2021

Guardium is most suitable for large scale enterprises because the pricing model is better if you are implementing a large number of databases. It may be suited to medium enterprises, but to a lesser extent. It depends on customer requirements, but it's best suited to large companies because of affordability.

MS
Real User
2021-10-02T07:20:45Z
Oct 2, 2021

The price of the solution could be better.

MS
Real User
2021-10-01T05:57:00Z
Oct 1, 2021

It's an enterprise license.

MH
Real User
2021-09-15T13:27:47Z
Sep 15, 2021

We are working with the trial version. Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis. I don't have all of the information regarding the pricing, but my understanding is that it is on the high side.

Md Saiful Hyder - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 20
2021-01-26T03:19:13Z
Jan 26, 2021

For IBM Guardium, licensing is very simple and straightforward. There are no issues I can speak of. Regarding the pricing, Guardium's price is always better compared to competitors like Oracle. It's not expensive compared to what the leading competitors are providing and on top of that, the integration options with IBM are also better for the price you pay.

VD
Real User
2020-12-20T08:09:07Z
Dec 20, 2020

Its cost is good. With the new metric of licensing, such as PDO not being available now, customers are expecting a good price for the solution.

AsifIqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2020-07-28T06:50:18Z
Jul 28, 2020

I'm not sure of the exact cost of the solution, however, I believe the features have separate costs. We have a data protection license and on top of that, we need to buy however many databases we need to monitor everything effectively.

MN
Real User
2019-06-04T07:43:00Z
Jun 4, 2019

In the past, the pricing of IBM Guardium was very complex. It was dependent on the number of CPUs and other things to support the servers. Nowadays, things have changed. Pricing is dependent on the number of databases and the number of servers. The licensing fees are paid yearly. One of the deployments that I know of had three databases, and the yearly fees are approximately $50,000 USD. There are some additional add-ons that are available, but I do not see many people taking them. There is encryption, and there is a Guardium Inspection license, but I am not sure of the costs.

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