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."IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"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."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"Everyone wants a full backup. It gives them safety and peace of mind, like an insurance policy for that rainy day when they may need to restore a system."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"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."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."
"It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 68 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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