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."The product is very stable."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"It is a really scalable solution. We can scale it up. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"I have found that the most valuable feature is useful documentation and troubleshooting."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"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 backup tool."
"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."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"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."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"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."
"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
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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