We performed a comparison between Actifio and OpenText Data Protector 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."Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"The solution helps reduce costs."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Ability to automatically detect and secure new data sources without requiring manual configuration intervention."
"It is very easy to use and the interaction with various systems is very handy."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"The initial setup was relatively easy."
"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"Google has stopped supporting the on-premise version of the tool."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"I don't like this solution so much because it's very technical and compared to Commvault and Veeam, it's not so user-friendly. The interface needs improvement."
"I would like to see a better user interface in the next release."
"It would be ideal if they could improve their level of support."
"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."
"The online backups of Office 365 have room for improvement. This is now available for the Exchange Online part of Office 365, but we're still waiting for SharePoint Online, Teams, etc. We know that it's coming, but it takes time."
"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."
"In terms of what can be improved, I would say integrations with MongoDB. We use MongoDB and we need to go to scripts to do backups. We need more integrations."
"People prefer Veeam because the interface is easier, and Data Protector is difficult in comparison."
Actifio is ranked 32nd in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 99 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our Actifio vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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