We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, NetApp SnapCenter, 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."Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."
"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."
"It helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"For initial setup, we started with the blueprints, which were great. The blueprints allowed us to be able to decide if we needed to use small, medium,k or large. Because we are a large environment, we used a large blueprint. Once we followed everything in the blueprint, it was a smooth transition from there."
"Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"Instead of taking three different backups of your systems, you're taking only one. You're able to crack that open and get what you need. The incident recovery, where it creates the VM and then you're running it, technically you're running it on Spectrum Protect. But then in the background, it's doing the storage motion and moving it off the Spectrum Protect back to your VMware environment. The users don't know the difference."
"With the new features that we have added, it has made a difference as far as faster recovery and speed."
"It allows us to have one interface."
"The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues."
"The centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"The product’s most valuable feature is cloning."
"The backup features are the most valuable because they allow the DBAs to replace SnapManager for Oracle (SMO), which is going away, and to do cloning as well. We can also clone to different servers and have the actual backup clone mounted on different servers. And we can split easily too."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"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."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"It is a good backup tool."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"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."
"High availability (HA) is a scalability challenge."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"Stability is very good now. It used to be rocky years ago."
"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."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"The tool could be faster."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"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."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
