We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veritas Backup Exec 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."Our performance is better."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"It is very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"In the global business world, Veritas has a very good name. I think they have a good solid product, and they are always trying to improve it, and update it. ;They know what the client actually needs, and they are up to the challenge of satisfying those needs."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that."
"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."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"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."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 18 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 16 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Works with a multitude of platforms and databases, not limited to Windows or Linux and enterprise-class, reliable, and fast". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Supports synthetic backup and allows you to start virtual machines on the backup set and do multiple things in one backup configuration". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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