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."You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"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 is very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"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."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"Maybe they could improve reporting capabilities and predictions."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
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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