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."It is also a product that has been maturing for a long time. This is good because customers need reliability in their enterprise initiatives."
"Our performance is better."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"The most valuable features of Spectrum Protect would be the compression and the deduplication."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"The customization and the ability to backup across all platforms are the most valuable features."
"We can scale. Today, we have an average backup volume of 100TB a day."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The flexibility is very good."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"The pricing could be improved."
"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."
"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."
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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