We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, Veritas Backup Exec, and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The platform has valuable stability."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."
"We like IBM Spectrum's versioning capabilities. It lets us specify how many versions of a file we want to keep and for how long. Also, the archive component of the software helps us a lot."
"The business value comes from the capability to overcome data losses."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"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."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"This product is flexible enough to allow for backing up data from physical machines, as well as from your cloud environment."
"Veritas released a new feature in version 8 of NetBackup called VRP. It's kind of like replication management from VMware. The great thing about this feature is that Veritas gave it to us for free."
"The deduplication feature is useful. Deduplication and compression features are what I like about NetBackup."
"The most valuable features are the VMware VADP backups and the support for data domains."
"We believe that everything Veritas NetBackup offers, including backups, snapshots, deduplication, and replication, is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Best feature is its three-tier backup."
"The tool's information transfer and patching up is easy. The solution offers protection from ransomware which is also a valuable feature."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."
"Integration with Windows environments needs improvement. It should be more "assisted", both at the application and database level. It remains a product that fits better in Unix/Linux environments than in Windows environments, given its configuration procedures."
"If IBM could provide a partial module, that would be great."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"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."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"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."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"The restore tool is not friendly to newcomers."
"The most common problem is the backup failures over the weekend. We have to troubleshoot and sometimes do restores and then we have trouble doing some of the restores."
"The biggest problem with NetBackup is licensing."
"In terms of improvement, it's very difficult to make it work with multiple business units. Its security model is too constricted."
"We faced so many backup configuration issues. And from the Veritas side, they couldn't fix that issue. So we started from scratch, purchased everything, and then we configured everything. Therefore, the support could be better."
"Its integration with Nutanix and technical support can be improved."
"The user interface could improve, it seems a bit out of date."
"It's a little bit complex to manage."
