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 very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state."
"The archiving feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"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."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"It is scalable beyond anything my customers ever aspire to."
"It scales from very small to very large. It is easily the most scalable product out there."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"It can be improved for large file systems with many files. Spectrum Protect can restore large files very well, but if you're restoring millions of little files, it is not as great. At one point, we tried to implement the VMware module with it, and it was awful and terrible. I don't know if that has improved. If it hasn't, this would be one big 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 would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"The features should be a little bit closer together."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"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."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
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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