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."High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"We optimize our costs of media and storage use, thanks to the Incremental Forever backup. The TDP software provides us many ways to protect our data, so we don't need to use monstrous scripts for doing backups now."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"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."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"It is a good backup tool."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"They are behind on many things, especially security. They are catching up a little bit now, but the competitors are doing better security-wise. There should be malware detection and prevention and higher security."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"Integration with Windows environments needs improvement. It should be more "assisted", both at the application and database level. It remains a product that fits better in Unix/Linux environments than in Windows environments, given its configuration procedures."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"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."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
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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