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 deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"It is a scalable product."
"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."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"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."
"This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"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."
"Replication services would be nice. If these could be enhanced to be always on so multiple storage backup services could be added as a cluster pool. This would provide a better availability service."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
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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