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."Our performance is better."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"It is a really scalable solution. We can scale it up. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"Every time we go and try to get a file, we can get it. Restores are quick and the data is always there."
"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."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
"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 am not really impressed with the Level 1 support, but once I get past that and go to Level 2, then we will usually get some type of resolution."
"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."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
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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