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."Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution."
"A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"It has a lot more capabilities and functions than a lot of other products. Even though it is more complex, the reason is because it gives you a lot more features. This is what I prefer, especially for a long retention."
"The solution is really scalable."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."
"We have had some problems about using storage agents on the X6 environment. It is not quite stable, but it is also not supported in a virtualized environment."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"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."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. 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 Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". 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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