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OpenText Data Protector

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Spec score 7.3 #11 of 25 in Enterprise Backup Software

Spec sheet

Purpose
OpenText Data Protector provides backup protection and recovery for business-critical data and applications across virtual, physical, and cloud environments.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Security
The data sheet states that traffic is encrypted in transit, secure peering uses TLS 1.2, and the product is Common Criteria Certified.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Support
OpenText provides a support portal for product support and license management, with premium support and other advanced customer support services listed on the product page.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Headquarters
Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaRead 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Founded
1991Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Application integrations
Application-aware backup and recovery integrations include Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Oracle, SAP, SAP HANA, IBM Db2, Sybase ASE, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Backup destinations
It backs up multiple copies to disk, tape, or cloud, locally and remotely.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Cloud Workloads coverage
Data Protector for Cloud Workloads supports backup for Kubernetes, Proxmox, and OpenShift containers, and online Microsoft 365 applications including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Editions
The product overview describes Express for virtual environments and Premium for hybrid physical and virtual environments; Cloud Workloads extends protection to cloud, virtual, container, and online application workloads.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Monitoring and automation
The product includes backup health monitoring and alerting, reporting, predictive analytics, and backup process automation and orchestration.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Pricing detail
The maker describes socket-based pricing for Express and capacity-based pricing for Premium and Cloud Workloads, but the overview gives no numeric prices.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Recovery
It offers self-service recovery for individual items and recovery from granular file restores to automated bare-metal recovery.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
REST API
A REST API with authentication and authorization enables integration of data protection tasks with customer service portals or applications.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Storage and cloud integrations
Named integrations include HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, Dell EMC Data Domain Boost, Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, and S3 API-compliant Ceph and Scality.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Target users
The product is described as an enterprise-grade solution for large, complex, heterogeneous IT environments.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
Virtualization integrations
Native VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V integrations provide agentless backup and protection policy inheritance.Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com

Plans and prices

OpenText Data Protector Express Priced on request Socket-based pricing · designed for highly virtual environments · agentless VMware and Hyper-V protection Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
OpenText Data Protector for Cloud Workloads Priced on request Front-end capacity-based licensing · perpetual license or subscription · Microsoft 365, hypervisor, container, and cloud backup Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com
OpenText Data Protector Premium Priced on request Capacity-based pricing · physical, virtual, and hybrid environments · perpetual license or subscription Read 4 Oct 2026 · opentext.com

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