We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"It scales well for the amount of clients that we use with it."
"With Spectrum Protect, you can use any type of disk to back-end the repositories. It gave us flexibility to use whatever storage we wanted at our secondary site."
"We cannot live without it, since it gives us the confidence to move forward."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"We work very closely together with IBM using their Support Center, but we have a strong contact in their development teams, and we have dedicated people from IBM working with us."
"The most valuable feature involves VMware Instant Recovery, which allows one to do restoration within seconds."
"Technical support has been great."
"We have good data backup coverage."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is information backup."
"The solution uses minimal resources."
"The policy-based backup feature is very helpful."
"The intelligent policies feature is used in order to protect the VMware infrastructure. One of the things that makes a big difference for our company is the usage of these intelligence policies. The system automatically provides extra protection for any VMware server application or service. From a backup administrator's point of view, this is what we call peace of mind. It reduces the workload and therefore reduces resources needed from the company."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas NetBackup Appliance is duplication and covers many applications."
"Ease of use."
"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."
"It can be improved for large file systems with many files. Spectrum Protect can restore large files very well, but if you're restoring millions of little files, it is not as great. At one point, we tried to implement the VMware module with it, and it was awful and terrible. I don't know if that has improved. If it hasn't, this would be one big improvement."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"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."
"Feature-wise, it is quite good, but it is very costly. Its price has gone up quite significantly over the years, and that makes people like us look at alternatives."
"With technical support, it feels like they aren't well trained and it takes forever to get answers out of them."
"I would like to see a product that requires less expertise to manage it."
"I would like to see support for databases such as MySQL and MongoDB."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance could improve the configuration, it could be more user-friendly."
"Veritas NetBackup would benefit from better explained error codes."
"They need to make the licensing more clear. They should give all of the licensing details for the portals and be more clear. I have accidentally purchased the incorrect license because it's not clear."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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