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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

No sentiment score available
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus receives mixed feedback on support, with some delays noted but overall highly rated and praised documentation.
Sentiment score
8.5
Oracle Data Guard customer service is generally effective but criticized for variable support quality and long response times.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.3
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus requires better user-friendliness, support, speed, integration, data protection, security, automation, and enhanced reporting and migration features.
Sentiment score
6.3
Oracle Data Guard is complex with high costs, insufficient documentation, technical issues, and needs better integration, monitoring, and regional support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is scalable, supporting diverse setups and departments, handling many virtual machines, with ratings of 7-10.
Sentiment score
8.8
Oracle Data Guard offers scalable database replication, improved stability with Oracle RAC, and highly rated enterprise-level capabilities since version twelve.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is praised for stability and reliability, but some users find it requires specialized personnel and is not user-friendly.
Sentiment score
8.4
Oracle Data Guard is highly stable and reliable, excelling with large databases, though major upgrades require thorough testing.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
The service provides easy, agentless backups for various platforms, with features like deduplication, compression, and fast restoration, supporting cloud and on-premises.
Sentiment score
8.1
Oracle Data Guard provides reliable, easy-to-maintain data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery with robust integrity, security, and performance.
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
23rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Data Guard
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is 0.8%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.8%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Atif Najam - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables organizations to make large-scale recoveries easily, but the security must be improved
The security must be improved. We face a lot of cyber threats like ransomware. It impacts data availability and protection. The tool must provide a mechanism to make resilient backups. The tool must ensure that the recent backups have no ransomware. The backup must be immutable. They must be cyber-resilient backups. Finding a good resource person for IBM Spectrum in Pakistan is difficult. We have to rely on the support team. Resource availability is a challenge.
Azhagupandi Parthiban - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers near-real-time replication for data consistency and continuously introducing new features through upgrades
There are various advantages. First of all, easy to deploy. The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. In other ways, the implementation is very, very important. Like, we have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product. Once you configure it, it goes through the rollback, and then Data Guard introduces this snapshot thing. So once the restoration happens, we can go back to the original thing, and we make that a standard. It's a pretty decent and key function for Oracle. So, enterprise organizations go for Oracle only for features like these.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?
The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?
We have a perpetual license for the tool since it is deployed on-premise. We pay a fixed fee per year for support.
What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus?
The security must be improved. We face a lot of cyber threats like ransomware. It impacts data availability and protection. The tool must provide a mechanism to make resilient backups. The tool mus...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...
 

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Sample Customers

PT Wings Surya, Tectrade, State of Ohio
Athenahealth, Discover Financial Services
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