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."It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"IBM support is friendly, knowledgeable, and they always respond quickly. They've always been able to find the cause of my problem."
"The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"The scalability of IBM Spectrum Protect is good."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"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."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"It would be helpful if the solution included some sort of ransomware protection."
"This product should be more user-friendly for newcomers."
"Restoring massive files is a very time-consuming process."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"It doesn't integrate with storage pools, with a normal pool. I'd like to see that."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"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."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th 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 Cohesity DataProtect, 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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