We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"It integrates well with Spectrum Scale."
"Once setup, you do not need to touch it again. You just need to do a formal check on possibly batch updates."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The solution has a very easy-to-navigate user interface."
"It has a lot of very good features. The virtual tape library (VTL) feature is most valuable. Overall, it is easy to use."
"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."
"The most valuable feature of the Veritas NetBackup Appliance is the virtual machine backups."
"Technical support has been great."
"There are a lot of new features that operate to protect the data from ransomware attacks. They launched the Veritas/Appliances to protect our data. Veritas has been doing its job well."
"Installing this solution is very simple and takes perhaps five or ten minutes."
"I want a better user interface, support, and integrations."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"For Spectrum Protect Plus, I would like to see more enhanced reporting features and integration with Spectrum Protect."
"They are behind on many things, especially security. They are catching up a little bit now, but the competitors are doing better security-wise. There should be malware detection and prevention and higher security."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"There have been scalability issues. The core product does not support scale out. We needed to create a new system and manage resources separate from the existing one."
"Stability is very good now. It used to be rocky years ago."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration and security."
"Sometimes, the user interface doesn't work smoothly."
"The product should provide more AI and ML features."
"The response from the support team has not always been quick, so sometimes there is a risk."
"They could improve the interface a bit."
"It would be a better solution if we were able to make more reports in regards to the backup system."
"I would like to see support for databases such as MySQL and MongoDB."
"The tool's pricing is expensive and could be lower."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 47 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE StoreOnce. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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