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."The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"Our customers have come to trust IBM."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"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 version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"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 63rd 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, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP.
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