We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."
"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."
"Our customers have come to trust IBM."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"The solution is really scalable."
"The solution is mostly stable."
"The replication feature has proven to be the most valuable feature for us."
"The initial setup for a simple environment is very easy. We just do next, next, next, next for the installation. It can be complicated in a complicated environment. It can be simple for a simple environment. I enjoy installing it. It has a lot of features."
"We have evaluated other solutions but Veeam is the best for virtualization."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"I am not a direct user of this product, but my technical guys tell me that they like the product, and it is easy to use. We don't have any issues with it."
"It is way easier to take backup with Veeam Backup & Replication than the regular ones."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well."
"The product allows us to use data more efficiently, reducing the cost of storage and backup time. It is vital to have data available in the shortest possible time."
"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."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"No one can fix every solution for backup and restore."
"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."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"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."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"I think that Veeam could improve some performance issues when the backup itself is restored. I'm also using HPE StoreOnce, which has deduplication, and when I'm trying to test or run backups, it takes a lot of time. I think they could improve the testing for backup copies."
"They fixed everything that I was hoping for. It is pretty good. There were a few things in 9.x that I was wishing for, and they came true in version 10. We were looking for retention without having to make a copy job. We're getting ready to migrate m365 to the cloud. I haven't dived into it to make sure, but I wish the m365 backup would integrate into the current console so that we don't have to use two different consoles."
"The solution requires a lot of bandwidth."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"The cloud backups from Veeam Backup Replication have not been good. Addiotnaally, the backups of Office 365 and the overall performance can always be improved."
"If you do not use the standard software and you go with a third-party solution such as this one, it might not work the same. There is an integration issue I understand between the database standards."
"The orchestration feature can be improved. They can improve the virtual machine orchestration to make it similar to VMware. They can also provide an option to automate the backup and recovery and schedule a backup."
"There is always some room for improvement, especially with some of the different technologies such as DB2. Commvault has a DB2 agent, but Veeam still doesn't have it. We have to use the universal one for it."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"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."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
