We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"The support from IBM is very good."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its ease of use. Additionally, it does backups of all of the things we need, such as OS, files, and databases."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature."
"Virtual snapshots that offer incremental backups."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"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."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"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."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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