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."The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"All other products contain the same features, but when I'm backing up an IBM Power server I feel more comfortable with IBM Spectrum Protect because it's the same vendor."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"The most valuable feature is the backup speed."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"It is a good backup tool."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"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)."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
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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