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 most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"Enterprise-wide type of architecture supports a lot of different platforms."
"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."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"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."
"In the past, one of the most valuable features, and the biggest advantage, was the incremental forever feature. Not many other backup vendors provided that. In the pre-virtualization environment, it was very robust and simple technology, especially writing to tape."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that IBM Spectrum Protect is highly integrated with IBM ESS. In addition, it allows us to back up our virtual servers directly to take VM snapshots. It runs on Linux as well."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"In the global business world, Veritas has a very good name. I think they have a good solid product, and they are always trying to improve it, and update it. ;They know what the client actually needs, and they are up to the challenge of satisfying those needs."
"It is a good backup tool."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"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."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"We need everything cloud. Strong support for cloud services. S3 connectivity, which is mandatory for us in the future along with this integration of Spectrum Copy Data Management or Spectrum Protect services together with these Spectrum Protect Plus functionalities, e.g., hardware, snapshots, and Copy Data Management. They should come together in one solution."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
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 Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) 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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