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OpenText Data Protector vs Quorum OnQ 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:
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Data Protector
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
49th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
102
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Quorum OnQ
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
46th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (35th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of OpenText Data Protector is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quorum OnQ is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Quorum OnQ0.9%
OpenText Data Protector1.0%
Other98.1%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmad-Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager And Technical Consultant at EEMC
Provides effective backup for physical servers and needs improvements for cloud compatibility
We use OpenText Data Protector for Oracle database backup and some applications that run for database security OpenText Data Protector is good for physical backup, specifically for physical servers. It is effective for direct backups to EMC library or storage without using a repository. However,…
reviewer2594778 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Application Analyst at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees
Enhanced filtering for advocate emails
Quorum provides an elevated ability to filter on everything from people's location to age to their voting history. This is an extreme feature that will help our advocacy department a lot. It encompasses the ability to formulate emails and calls to action across regions. Their platform is more advanced than our previous one. It provides a smooth training experience and easy terminology for those in the advocacy world.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"The initial setup is straightforward if you understand Data Protector."
"This solution is quite stable because we have only three users."
"In one of the projects involving a database and UCMDB integration, we needed to manage a large database. We used the scheduling feature in Data Protector to automate backups."
"Data Protector was cheaper and would do what we needed to do."
"Backup of SAP/Oracle -- they are more robust than the competition."
"The stability of the product seems to be quite good."
"Regarding scalability, it's unlimited with Data Protector. You can link multiple installations and let them work together. They can share backup devices. You have many possibilities with Data Protector. It's very proficient."
"It provides a smooth training experience and easy terminology for those in the advocacy world."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most useful feature is the one-click recovery, as it instantly boots up the protected VM and this product is easy to use."
"This is the best money I spend on my budget."
"Quite frankly, once you've used the Quorum OnQ system, you could not consider any alternative."
"Having Quorum gives us 100 percent uptime."
"A very high level security environment for secondary data."
"One of the biggest features is that, even on the absolutely run-of-the-mill box, if I lose any one of my servers I can automatically bring it up virtually on the physical onQ Quorum device."
 

Cons

"We think troubleshooting is one of the most difficult parts in this product. It is hard to find any signs for job errors and why a job did not run successfully."
"Technical support process could be easier/technical web site."
"The online backups of Office 365 have room for improvement."
"We didn't know exactly where this solution would go a few years ago. It was in a storage department and then later in a software department."
"This product needs a lot of improvement both on the technical side and in its pricing and compatibility."
"Unfortunately, Data Protector is not exactly the tool for that task."
"I do not think that this solution is relevant in the current IT market. They have not upgraded their features and functionalities which makes it difficult for them to remain competitive."
"I would not recommend this product to my colleagues."
"The price of Quorum OnQ could be improved."
"I would like to see iSCSI support added so that NAS storage servers could be protected."
"The solution could do more by improving compatibility in terms of supporting other OS."
"It is not as feature-rich as a product like Veeam."
"Quorum OnQ's user interface is not very attractive and should be made more attractive."
"We found that some of the live SQL databases we were backing up would be inconsistent when we would restore them."
"The price is high and could be more competitive."
"One thing that could be done to improve it would be a single pane of glass for doing disaster recovery testing, where I could have remote consoles in one place... I still have to go to each location in a browser and then bring up the console. I'd like to see them integrate that into a single pane of glass so I don't have to go to each server."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is acceptable for enterprise level companies, but it's not acceptable for small- and medium-sized businesses. Micro Focus Data Protector is not an enterprise level solution, and it should cover small- and medium-sized businesses with acceptable prices."
"In Data Protector, if you need extra features, you need to buy the agents for these features. Some of the features are Terabytes, some of them are agents. There's some complexity in the pricing and licensing."
"Our licensing is on a capacity basis."
"The pricing is neither too expensive nor very cheap."
"There is a perpetual license involved in addition to support which needs to be renewed annually."
"It is fast, reliable, and its licensing policy is great."
"Pricing for Micro Focus Data Protector is reasonable."
"The pricing is around $3,000 to $5,000. The charge additionally for support and to scale."
"When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."
"The pricing is about $1,400 a month. It's a little bit on the higher side. But it's one of those situations where time is valuable for me. So if it costs a little bit more money for me to have a solution that just works and requires less of my day-to-day management, I'm willing to pay a little bit more."
"Quorum OnQ can be described as a medium-priced product...There are no ingress and egress charges in the product."
"The total for our current solution's licensing is about $14,000 for 12 servers for three years."
"The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."
"When we first got the Quorum the licensing was different."
"I am not sure how much it costs, but I know it's expensive."
"The initial expenditure for us was a little under $40,000 for the recent renewal. For the first three years after that, other than electricity, there's no cost. After that, their support contract has to be renewed annually. We spent close to $6,000, between the two offices, for support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise61
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Data Protector?
The solution is expensive as it requires purchasing all features without the option to negotiate based on client numbers, unlike Veeam which offers flexibility in pricing.
What needs improvement with Micro Focus Data Protector?
OpenText Data Protector is not user-friendly, especially for cloud backup. It lacks functions and facilities compared to Veeam, which offers more user-friendliness for virtual machine backups. Ther...
What is your primary use case for Micro Focus Data Protector?
We use OpenText Data Protector ( /products/opentext-data-protector-reviews ) for Oracle database backup and some applications that run for database security.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quorum OnQ?
It's a little expensive. That said, the cost aligns with other advocacy tools we have evaluated.
What needs improvement with Quorum OnQ?
They have radio buttons that allow multiselection, which is not intuitive. Also, the URL for our environments is the same, making it confusing for management when handling different departments wit...
What is your primary use case for Quorum OnQ?
We launched all of our advocacy departments through Quorum next month. We are in the process of uploading all of our data and creating custom fields.
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Data Protector, Data Protector, OmniBack, HPE Data Protector
OnQ
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

GSK Vaccines, Repsol, Vodafone Group, Siemens AG, Medium Enterprise Transportation Services Company
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