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 product is very stable."
"It has a lot more capabilities and functions than a lot of other products. Even though it is more complex, the reason is because it gives you a lot more features. This is what I prefer, especially for a long retention."
"The most valuable feature is the backup speed."
"The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"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."
"They have recently added support tickets specifically engineered around performance. This has been very useful for us when we run into issues where customers are looking to try to squeeze a lot more horsepower out of older system."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"The solution is mostly stable."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"The usability of IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved, specifically additional features to the product in the operations center. Additional reporting facilities and stronger reporting tools such as build dashboards would be beneficial."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that."
"The features should be a little bit closer together."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"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."
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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