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."Good deduplication and compression features."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"Once setup, you do not need to touch it again. You just need to do a formal check on possibly batch updates."
"Technical support is okay. We have not had many issues with them."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"It is a scalable product."
"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."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"We have had some problems about using storage agents on the X6 environment. It is not quite stable, but it is also not supported in a virtualized environment."
"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."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"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."
"The pricing could be improved."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
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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