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."One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."
"The solution is very stable. It is one of the most important features that we look for in a product before putting it into the market and when establishing a strategy with our customers."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"It is scalable beyond anything my customers ever aspire to."
"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"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."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"We need better protection from ransomware or the ability to identify ways we can protect ourselves from ransomware. Having backups is one thing, but specifically, we need methods to recover if we have a ransomware attack."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"The solution must protect against ransomware attacks better."
"No one can fix every solution for backup and restore."
"Replication services would be nice. If these could be enhanced to be always on so multiple storage backup services could be added as a cluster pool. This would provide a better availability service."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"The price of this solution is very high."
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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