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."IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."
"It is a very stable product. The cost is similar to that of other enterprise solutions."
"It scales from very small to very large. It is easily the most scalable product out there."
"The solution is really scalable."
"The file-restoring feature is the most valuable."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"They have recently added support tickets specifically engineered around performance. This has been very useful for us when we run into issues where customers are looking to try to squeeze a lot more horsepower out of older system."
"Scalability is pretty much unlimited."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"We have had some problems about using storage agents on the X6 environment. It is not quite stable, but it is also not supported in a virtualized environment."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"The solution's ability to integrate with a cloud solution is one area that needs improvement."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"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."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
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 68 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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