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 scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"Data archiving is easier and less time-consuming."
"Some of the people in our group, like our DBAs and non-technical people, can restore some stuff themselves via Spectrum Protect. That is how simple it is."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"It is a really scalable solution. We can scale it up. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"In the global business world, Veritas has a very good name. I think they have a good solid product, and they are always trying to improve it, and update it. ;They know what the client actually needs, and they are up to the challenge of satisfying those needs."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"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."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"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."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
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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