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 way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"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."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"You can scale the product."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"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."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"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."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
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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