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."The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."
"You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"It is an IBM product. With SAP, you are using IBM software to protect it. DB2 and AIX servers are both IBM. Therefore, it is a total IBM solution, which helps."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"It is pretty scalable. It will scale to anything."
"Good user interface."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"It is a good backup tool."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"The installation process could be simplified."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"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."
"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."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"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."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"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."
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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