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IBM Spectrum Protect vs IBM Tivoli CDP for Files comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Spectrum Protect
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
149
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Tivoli CDP for Files
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
76th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of IBM Spectrum Protect is 2.2%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Syed Habib - PeerSpot reviewer
Manageable and comprehensive and integrates robust backup features for core banking
It's adequate for my core banking, however, I am looking for another solution for all systems. It is not compatible with other operating systems like Windows or Linux, and lacks a consolidated dashboard from Browser Spectrum. This is why I am searching for another solution. The product also lacks any centralized graphical user interface (GUI), such as Jarek Pod, and I am limited to using a console-based text user interface, which my local partner handles completely.
reviewer1035033 - PeerSpot reviewer
Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable
We are currently using Tivoli to backup 15 terabytes within our Oracle Database using a RMAN backup script. The RMAN's utility and restoration has been perfect, we have yet to experience any issues. It's very reliable The restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable. We would like to…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The components of IBM Spectrum Protect explain how the data is protected. The administration is very easy, and the vertical migration is intuitive."
"It protects our data. That is what it is there for."
"Good user interface."
"It scales from very small to very large. It is easily the most scalable product out there."
"The most valuable feature is the backup speed."
"The solution is mostly stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is application-aware backups."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
 

Cons

"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"The stability could be improved."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"Some of the new advanced features are definitely more into cost savings, e.g., dedupe compression, so doing more with less."
"The product is low cost. It is very cool when we design it to using licensing based on post capacity."
"It is really expensive. Its price is not good for Latin America. Its price is good for the United States or Europe."
"We pay for a terabyte license to support our backend usage."
"The product is not cheap."
"One can go with either a PVU licensing model or a capacity based licensing model. Either solution does not block the usage, if over used."
"It is expensive."
"It's expensive, but it's worth for it due to the volume of critical information within our database. We are currently paying about $22,000 per year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
9%
University
7%
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Also Known As

IBM TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Tivoli CDP for Files
 

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Sample Customers

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