IBM Vault vs. Informatica Data Archive (legacy)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Vault
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
IBM Vault (formerly Hashicorp Vault) is an encryption tool for managing secrets including credentials, passwords and other secrets, providing access control, audit trail, and support for multiple authentication methods. It is available open source, or under an enterprise license.
$0.03
Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Informatica Data Archive is used to control data growth in production databases and retire legacy applications. It is a legacy product and will not receive further updates.N/A
Pricing
IBM VaultInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
Editions & Modules
Cloud - HCP Vault
$0.03/hr
Open Source
Free
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM VaultInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
IBM VaultInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(6 ratings)
9.9
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM VaultInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
HashiCorp Vault, in my opinion, is a defacto standard for any cloud or automation implementation. They're the best of the best as far as products for secrets management and the ability to use it against relatively any service you have is unheard of for other products. HashiCorp has really taken out all the stops when it comes to creating a nice, extensible tool that people can use to suit their needs.
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Discontinued Products
To manage users, go to the admin dashboard, here is a section for users. In this users section here you can see which users are configured and you have the ability to suspend a user. If you want to edit or add users, you need to go to the Organization section, then click on another user section there, which then gives you the ability to edit or add users.
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Pros
IBM
  • The HTTP API you use to write and read secrets is open and can be used by any application.
  • It keeps our sensitive data/credentials out of our GitLab repositories.
  • Sealing and unsealing the Vault on demand adds an additional layer of security.
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  • Works well with curated data
  • Allows you to monitor data movements within an organisation
  • Advisable to use ILM if already using Informatica PowerCenter
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Cons
IBM
  • Session Management is terrible to manage
  • Monitoring is hard and not enough information
  • User management
  • Configuration is too complex
  • More user friendly UI
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Discontinued Products
  • As we are still piloting the product at our company at this time the feedback is highly limited.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
HashiCorp Vault is the best there is out there, and it has become critical to our secret management use cases. It would be difficult to find anything that would suit our needs better and that would be beneficial for us to switch over to.
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Discontinued Products
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Usability
IBM
We spent a little more time than we imagined to conceptually understand how HashiCorp Vault operates, as well as how it is configured. This is not trivial, and keep in mind that you will need to take some time to get a thorough understanding of the tool. The documentation could be more helpful in this regard.
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Discontinued Products
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Support Rating
IBM
Hashicorp has been very responsive to our questions and inquiries up to this point. We are currently working on them to develop a more granular permissions model within Vault. We are very close to achieving our objectives with the help of their support team. We do not seem to be in the same time zone which makes it hard for escalated issues.
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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
HashiCorp Vault is way better than Azure Key Vault; it has more features and it goes beyond a key-value secret store.
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Discontinued Products
[The] customer support is quite good. Cost also has another point to add, along with process integration and ease of using new tool.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Helped us reach our security compliance goals.
  • Helped us strengthen our security position in our infrastructure by improving on poor secret management practices.
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Discontinued Products
  • it is also fully integrated with all other AWS services
  • manages the entire life cycle of the Certificates by itself, so it will reduce your work by a really big amount
  • it can also be easily integrated with ELB and front-end cloud services.
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ScreenShots

IBM Vault Screenshots

Screenshot of an example of writing a secret to Vault. Secrets are always encrypted and written to backend storage.Screenshot of the secrets menu to manage integrated secrets engines. Secrets Engines are components which store, generate, or encrypt data and are enabled at a path in Vault.Screenshot of where vault identity has support for groups. A group can contain multiple entities as its members. A group can also have subgroups.Screenshot of HCP Vault, which provides all of the power and security of Vault, without the complexity and overhead of managing it yourself.Screenshot of where to view entity client and non-entity client counts.Screenshot of MFA is built on top of the Identity system of Vault.