We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 16th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. SCOM report.
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