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."Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"The platform has valuable stability."
"The most valuable features are the stability and also how it's seamlessly integrated with other IBM offerings."
"With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed."
"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."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"The main thing is to keep the data safe and in files, keep it on tape ready for a request from a bank, and it is working perfectly with all our hardware."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"It is a good backup tool."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"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 need two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. I need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"If you take Spectrum Protect into account, and you have it along with restrictions to Spectrum Archive by means of LTFS, this is also something which should be made better within the overall product's program."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"They should introduce more features for virtualization platforms and backing up IBMs. Backup speeds should also be improved."
"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."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"The pricing could be improved."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
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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