We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Incremental backup is highly valuable as it allows for significant time and cost savings."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"Regarding technical support, if one has the entire enterprise support, I would rate it a nine out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system."
"The API is very good."
"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."
"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"This is the best solution that I know of."
"The product is stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature is replication because, using NetBackup replication, we can have disaster recovery of the data we have."
"The solution offers the hardware and the software at the same time."
"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."
"Deduplication is quite efficient. It is not a complex product. It is quite simple."
"Backup and recovery software with great stability, and can support large-scale environments."
"The troubleshooting is very good."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"It needs agents that take into account more databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive. Its interface is very old and not user friendly. They can improve its interface. Their support can also be better. My clients are not very satisfied with the support because they are not really quick."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"It does not do too well in our virtual environment."
"The solution's initial setup process wasn't easy...The solution is overly complicated in terms of architecture, especially compared to other tools in the market."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve the IBM Spectrum Protect environment. It can be difficult to administer. The initial configuration can be difficult for entry-level teams or deployment teams, and it might be difficult to integrate. There's just too much content involved in the solution. The documentation is way too large."
"I think the graphical reports are a shortcoming of the tool since it fails to provide my company with what we want in terms of reporting. Due to the product's inability to take care of its reporting part, we have to use third-party software."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"The replication feature is not available."
"Like the other enterprise solutions, Veritas NetBackup isn't easy to implement. It's a little bit hard compared to other solutions like Data Protector for HPE. You have to struggle to learn a lot of features that Veritas NetBackup offers to customers."
"The solution costs too much."
"I would advise not to use this tool. I think between the licensing issues and the older solution mentality it is not a great solution."
"It should be able to integrate with the cloud. If we leverage a cloud in the future for backup, there should be very fast help and more options for customers to choose from."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
"The product must enable data migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"We want a solution that can be scaled-out because our data is growing very quickly, and we aren't able to back it up quickly. It takes one or two days, which is a problem. It is very slow. We just use one backup server. We want another solution with maybe a backup server cluster to back up more data in one day. We want a solution that can be scaled-out to back up our data quickly and efficiently."
"The implementation process could be simplified to make it quicker."
