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."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"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."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
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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 ManageEngine OpManager. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. SCOM report.
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