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."It helps our customers protect their data, keep it long-term, and feel pretty secure about it, basically sleeping well at night."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"You can scale the product."
"We have a very good team of administrators who know the product perfectly and are able to manage it on a day-to-day basis."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"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 interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"It is a scalable product."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"It might be seen as leaning towards the legacy side, missing some features of newer solutions. The main drawbacks would be its complexity and high pricing."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"In terms of features, they've got it all covered. The features they have are quite good. The only downside to it is that it is for an enterprise or big organization. In my opinion, it is not for a small business."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"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 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."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
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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