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."With data deduplication and compression, we are reducing our overall storage footprint for our disk histories. Therefore, we are reducing the actual cost of the disk for our data protection and data backups."
"IBM Spectrum Protect offers stable software and products."
"We have a very good team of administrators who know the product perfectly and are able to manage it on a day-to-day basis."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"It is pretty scalable. It will scale to anything."
"It is a good backup tool."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Scalability is poor. As you get to bigger environments, this is where our gaps have been introduced. As we have grown over the past couple of years, the gaps have become more apparent."
"I need two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. I need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"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."
"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 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."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
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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