We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect 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."One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."
"It has to ability to backup DV2, Oracle, and Informix."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"The product is very stable."
"It is also a product that has been maturing for a long time. This is good because customers need reliability in their enterprise initiatives."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"The D2D2T archive of my PACS data improved after I put Spectrum Protect 8.1.4 into production."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"It is a good backup tool."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"They should have a proper technical support team serving the customers and get issues resolved earlier."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect 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 vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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