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."It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"Every time we go and try to get a file, we can get it. Restores are quick and the data is always there."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"This solution has improved our organization through better file and database recovery."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The initial setup is easy."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"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."
"Perhaps if they could add replication to a second site or third site from the same console, that would be helpful. Currently, we have to connect to another console."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"For Spectrum Protect Plus, I would like to see more enhanced reporting features and integration with Spectrum Protect."
"It is not easy to manage like other products in the market. It is okay only if you are command-line driven. Even though the operation center is there, it doesn't provide a single view of everything. You have to, for example, use TSMManager on top of it, which gives you a far better management capability, but it is a third-party product. Its management needs to be improved. There should be an HTML or graphical interface. It is a very difficult product. For example, you have a backup policy where you want a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly policy standard. It is an old kind of system where you have to keep retention for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, which is very difficult in IBM Spectrum Protect. In other products, in a matter of five minutes, you can configure such a policy. In TSM, it takes you one, two, or three days because you need to configure a node for each of them. If you have 250 nodes, you have to configure each node for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention. If you have 1,000 nodes, it is going to take you ages just to configure and register the nodes. You need to configure the schedule and the CAD daemons or services, depending on whether it is a Unix or Windows OS. Unfortunately, it is a very long and drawn-out process. You have to stop and start the services for changes to take effect. This is a very difficult part of TSM in IBM Spectrum Protect. To configure a backup policy, I should be able to select the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly options in one screen and finish it. After that, everything should happen in the background. All the backup products in the market already do that, and they are very simple to manage. This particular part of this solution has really been a major pain area for us, and unfortunately, we could not find a workaround. There is nobody at IBM who can give us a way to configure all this easily through a GUI or even scripts."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"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 console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
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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