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."In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"It integrates well with Spectrum Scale."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"I find the whole product useful. The backup archive client, snapshot, spectrum for virtual environments are beneficial features."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"This solution is not mature in terms of disaster recovery and could be improved."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"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 price of this solution is very high."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one."
"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."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
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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