For us, the most valuable features are the auditing capabilities and the Guardium inspection engine. The GIM (Guardium Installation Manager) makes it easy to manage the S-TAP agent. You can enable/disable, install and upgrade remotely with no need for the system administrator.
DB user profiling is something that should be part of Guardium auditing systems.
Also, reporting is not user friendly as compared to other tools. Moreover, for each report, you have to create an audit policy to create the report. It should be policy-based.
We have been using Guardium for 2 years.
We did experiences a few system crashes.
Technical support is very good.
The initial setup was complex.
We also looked at McAfee and Fortinet.
I would consider IBM brand value.
