We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Rubrik, and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."
"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."
"This is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape."
"The solution is scalable."
"With this product, we now have a reliable backup solution."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"Automation functions, image based backup, and the ability to instantly recover anything from files to databases."
"We do like the instant recovery... Now, we say, "Okay, give me 15 seconds and I can get this back up for you." And within that 15 seconds it's on and the only thing that we have to do afterwards is vMotion it off of the Rubrik storage back to where it should rest."
"The search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"I don't know if it is the best or the worst but it's very easy to install and very easy to balance. Sometimes that it's a problem because the installer of these data gets extremely scared because it's so easy. The product is easy to install, easy to balance, and easy to work with. Another really good point is the instant recovery."
"Instant recovery because it takes about 10 seconds to restore the VM from backup to production"
"It has a single pane of glass interface."
"Takes me 80 percent less time to manage my backup environment."
"I am comfortable with using this product."
"I like NetBackup's accelerator feature. You can take a full backup with incremental speed and integrate it with block tracking."
"The deduplication feature is useful. Deduplication and compression features are what I like about NetBackup."
"I have found the Media Server Deduplication tool, deployment policies, and agentless features to be the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas NetBackup is the protection policies or protection module."
"It is easy to use, and you can run it with all kinds of client software environments. It works well with the most popular software, file systems, and operating systems. It is very useful to us."
"Management interface was simple to use once understood."
"Could be used for both of Physical and Virtual Environments."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"I would like more integration with security. We need to show the value of the product in regards to handling security. For example, how it handles current malware or viruses. IBM should be more proactive in this direction."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"The solution only supports HyperV and VMware but doesn't support Nutanix."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
"The Gui interface and usability are not so friendly and easy."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
"The licensing cost is quite high. That is something that needs to be worked out, because so many times it happens that the team does not have the budget or there are other issues at that time. Cost has become an important factor in deciding whether to continue with the Rubrik solution."
"With multiple Rubrik clusters setup in an environment, it becomes painfully obvious that this product needs a central management console."
"Improving PowerShell integration would greatly simplify Rubrik management."
"The flip side about NetBackup is that it is not policy-based."
"Veritas NetBackup is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"It was very complicated, and it required a lot of work in terms of management. We have moved to Rubrik. One of the reasons for getting rid of Veritas NetBackup was the fact that at one point, we had the support staff with 12 to 15 people to manage Veritas NetBackup, whereas, with Rubrik, I'm the only one managing Rubrik. There is one more person who works with me mostly due to the fact that in case I'm not around, someone else knows what to do, but I'm the only one who is a full-time manager of Rubrik. The complexity of Veritas required a large staff to manage it. We had daily issues that had to be looked into and resolved. A lot of these issues revolved around Veritas' handling of VMware, which is why first we moved VMware off Veritas. After we did that, we were also able to reduce our staff count. Their licensing is a disaster. It is extremely complicated. In most cases, Veritas themselves can't understand their own licensing."
"GUI needs to be more user-friendly."
"Improvements can be made to the service by providing better and more competitive ratios on data backups. The functionality for backups is there with Veritas, but I would like to see them optimize and enhance this feature more."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"Planning for the implementation takes a lot of time."
"We would like the Java console to be updated."
