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: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"It integrates well with Spectrum Scale."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"In the past, one of the most valuable features, and the biggest advantage, was the incremental forever feature. Not many other backup vendors provided that. In the pre-virtualization environment, it was very robust and simple technology, especially writing to tape."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"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."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"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."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"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."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
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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