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."You can scale the product."
"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."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"The most valuable features are compression and de-duplication."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"The solution is really scalable."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"It is a scalable product."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"The user interface (UI) for the admin is still not good. It is way too complicated to manage the product, as we still need to use command line. IBM launched the Operations Center (OC), but there are still functions lacking, especially since we cannot manage all our scheduled tasks by using the GUI."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"Customers have migrated off of it because of its lack of virtual environment functions."
"For Spectrum Protect Plus, I would like to see more enhanced reporting features and integration with Spectrum Protect."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
"Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"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."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
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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