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 is very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state."
"This solution has improved our organization through better file and database recovery."
"It is an IBM product. With SAP, you are using IBM software to protect it. DB2 and AIX servers are both IBM. Therefore, it is a total IBM solution, which helps."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of use - the GUI is not up to the mark compared to other products in the market."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
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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