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."Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."
"We can scale. Today, we have an average backup volume of 100TB a day."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"What I found most valuable in IBM Spectrum Protect is that it allows you to back up physical machines, and its proxy feature lets you back up virtual machines."
"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."
"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."
"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."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"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."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"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."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 67 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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