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."We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"The solution offers very good flexibility."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"It saves you a lot of storage."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive. Its interface is very old and not user friendly. They can improve its interface. Their support can also be better. My clients are not very satisfied with the support because they are not really quick."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"The reporting could be better."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
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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