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."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."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"We have been using it for several years, and it is quite reliable and predictable. We are quite comfortable with this solution. They're coming up with new features as well. It has good scalability, and it provides good integrations with business-critical applications or databases, such as SAP HANA. It works as expected, and we don't see any issues."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"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."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"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."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
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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