We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Oracle Data Guard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is very stable."
"All other products contain the same features, but when I'm backing up an IBM Power server I feel more comfortable with IBM Spectrum Protect because it's the same vendor."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"It protects our data. That is what it is there for."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."
"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."
"With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations."
"The solution has been stable so far."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"Another valuable feature is the possibility of backing up the database from the standby database instead of the primary database, to avoid backup process overhead in the primary system."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive. Its interface is very old and not user friendly. They can improve its interface. Their support can also be better. My clients are not very satisfied with the support because they are not really quick."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"Perhaps if they could add replication to a second site or third site from the same console, that would be helpful. Currently, we have to connect to another console."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"The implementation is complex for anyone who's jumping into it without any experience. It's all command-line driven implementations. For some, that's a turn-off."
"The product could improve its pricing."
"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."
"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"The deployment cost is expensive."
"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."
"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."
"When the data replicates into the standby database there is a possibility of having a microsecond amount of data loss. The data loss occurs when there is a network disconnection between the primary and secondary standby database located in the data centers or if there is a crash in the primary database."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. 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 Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Oracle Data Guard report.
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