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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Storage Protect

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Storage Protect (formerly IBM Spectrum Protect, or Tivoli Storage Manager) provides data resilience for physical file servers, virtual environments, and applications. Organizations can scale up to manage billions of objects per backup server.N/A

    OpenText Core Endpoint Backup

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Core Endpoint Backup, formerly Carbonite Endpoint, provides an enterprise-grade backup solution for all endpoints, including mobile devices or devices spread across a distributed enterprise network.

    $24

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    IBM Storage ProtectOpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic Computer Backup
    $24
    per month
    Advanced Endpoint Protection
    $34
    per month
    Basic Server Backup
    $50
    per month
    Basic Backup
    $55
    per month
    Advanced Server Protection
    $147
    per month
    Advanced Protection
    $199
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Storage ProtectOpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Storage ProtectOpenText Core Endpoint Backup
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    IBM
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    OpenText
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    IBM Storage ProtectOpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and OpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    OpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    5.6
    1 Ratings
    42% below category average
    Universal recovery8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.36 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.03 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Business application protection8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.75 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.75 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.02 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.75 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Snapshots8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.32 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.75 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Platform support8.56 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Retention options7.06 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Encryption9.05 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of IBM Storage Protect and OpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    Feature
    IBM Storage Protect
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
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    IBM Storage ProtectOpenText Core Endpoint Backup
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    Score6.5 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Storage ProtectOpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    7.0
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.2
    (5 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Storage ProtectOpenText Core Endpoint Backup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM Storage Protect is well-suited for large heterogenous environments, with skilled IT staff on-hand. You need a person (or group of people) to monitor day-to-day operations, tweak schedules where needed and be mindful of things that might go wrong. It is also well-suited if you have other IBM products that integrate well with Storage Protect, like Storage Protect Plus or IBM Defender. It is less suited for small companies, with only one person responsible for IT. Employing Storage Protect would be overkill and use too much time of the administrator.
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    OpenText
    Carbonite Endpoint 360 is a great solution for any organization with compliance needs. Office 365 defaults to a 30 day backup of all data. Carbonite Endpoint 360 extends this well beyond 30 days and provides an all-inclusive source for retention for data in Office 365. Any small to medium business would greatly benefit from this solution as they can design their entire infrastructure in Office 365 and ensure it's all backed up.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Tight integration with Db2. As an IBM product, it works seamlessly with Db2. You can query what is stored in TSM via Db2 itself. You can also use DB scripts to maintain the items being stored there.
    • Like most of its competitors, Tivoli handles deduplication well.
    • Provides a GUI for browsing and maintaining items stored there. I rarely use this feature, due to the next item I will post:
    • Command-line interface directly from my Db2 database servers.
    • Both client and server-side deduplication, compression and encryption are available.
    • If the requirements are zLinux and DB2 support then it's the most solid solution.
    • Can be complex to implement, but once up and running, it is rock-solid and immensely scalable.
    • Scalability is huge. Can be added onto easily.
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    OpenText
    • It is excellent at automating your backups. You don't need to manually do it, just set it up once and let it run in the background.
    • It's pretty simple to set up and use. It will automatically suggest the best options that work for most people and you can be up and running pretty quickly.
    • It's safe and reliable. We have been using it for a couple of years now and had no major issues.
    • Their phone support is excellent.
    • It's also really easy to maintain your backed up data to reduce redundancy.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Deployment and configuration is not easy for an unexperienced IBM Spectrum Protect administrator
    • Operations center uses a lot of data and needs a lot of storage for larger environments
    • Have not seen a redbook about it in the past 10 years
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    OpenText
    • To be honest not so impressed with the amount of time it has taken to get data backed up to the cloud.
    • I have not had to do a restore at this time so I cannot comment on the restore process.
    • I was not aware at time of procurement that the upload process would take so long since we were not procuring their hardware. Sales rep mad it seem like upload would only take a day or two and we are now starting week 7 hoping to be done by week 8 for 1.5 TBs of data.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    Not required, company closed. TSM is not used in my current role at my current job.
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    OpenText
    I found their alerting to be very poor. I missed several days of backups without knowledge of this, until I signed into the portal. I would get daily emails reporting backups were in progress or done, but nothing indicating that a backup had been stuck or paused for 3 days. For this reason alone, I did not renew.
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    Usability
    IBM
    In the present, a backup solution is a must-have, but then companies start using a solution for virtual machines, another solution for bare-metal servers, and another solution for their ERP. By using Spectrum Protect you can have all of that in a single pane of glass. This way you can have a simple recovery plan for all your information assets.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    IBM
    The few times we've called for support we eventually got an answer, but it's IBM and a very big company and getting to a support agent is hard.
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    OpenText
    Does what it needs to do quietly and efficiently in the background without interrupting the workflow. It offers instant automated back-ups without troubling the end user. As it is such an automated system, once it is up and running, there is little or no support needed from the service provider. From what I understand the support from Carbonite during the setup and implementation was absolutely fine.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Spectrum Protect is related to the other IBM Spectrum products listed because it is part of the suite and is also the main backup product for backup and restoration of information. With Veeam it is related as they present competence in different lines of technology, often the integration of both tools can be the best solution for clients looking for a successful backup strategy.
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    OpenText
    We have also used Mozy Pro and Dropbox. They are all pretty similar in functionality/features of backing up data (not system state or databases as I don't think any of the 3 are well suited for that). To me, it comes down to personal preference and choosing a product that is universal for multiple users, for ease of management.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    IBM
    Not at the moment, but it can leverage the billing outcomes as per the scales.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Tivoli does well running file-level backups, but Exchange is clunky and restores are really hard. With no SharePoint agent, if you use SharePoint you will need another product like AvePoint DocAve. The web-based GUI console is MUCH improved over earlier versions, but you will still need to be a command-line guru to make Tivoli do everything, and local (node) config files still rule. This product was originally ported from Unix and retains may of its 'nix roots.
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    OpenText
    • Carbonite Endpoint has demonstrated value in its ability to easily restore seemingly lost files for remote users.
    • While we haven't yet had to exercise it, knowing we have the option of remotely wiping endpoints containing sensitive data has brought confidence to our management team that we can mitigate data breaches through preventable means.
    • The privacy issue around device tracking is costing the company in terms of employee trust and morale and needs to be mitigated with appropriate messaging and/or disabling of this feature.
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