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."Every time we go and try to get a file, we can get it. Restores are quick and the data is always there."
"Once it is completed properly, it is low maintenance. Most of the functions do not require much deliberation. It is all the blueprints and technologies laid out, and it is straight forward."
"Data reduction definitely reduces costs, not only software costs, but from the infrastructure needed."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"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."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"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."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."
"In terms of features, they've got it all covered. The features they have are quite good. The only downside to it is that it is for an enterprise or big organization. In my opinion, it is not for a small business."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"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."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 68 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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