We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veritas System Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The platform has valuable stability."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"We optimize our costs of media and storage use, thanks to the Incremental Forever backup. The TDP software provides us many ways to protect our data, so we don't need to use monstrous scripts for doing backups now."
"The interface is easy to use."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"The solution captures the system state, so when we restore the system, it will be restored to the state it was in at the time of the backup."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"With Veritas System Recovery, we have the option to run an infinite number of full backups according to our requirements."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution has helped reduce my company's cost by around 50 to 60 percent."
"You can back up the whole image."
"Offers good recovery quickly."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"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."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"I am not really impressed with the Level 1 support, but once I get past that and go to Level 2, then we will usually get some type of resolution."
"The pricing could be cheaper."
"It needs an easier interface."
"The reliability is sometimes lacking."
"Veritas System Recovery’s pricing and local support need some improvement."
"We faced issues with recovery and restoration."
"Veritas System Recovery Manager offers some manager solutions, but there is room for improvement."
"The product's integration capabilities are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Lacks the ability to protect the database snapshot."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas System Recovery is ranked 21st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 7 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas System Recovery 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 System Recovery writes "The solution can be used for DR testing and allows running an infinite number of full backups". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Veritas System Recovery is most compared with Veritas Backup Exec, Veritas NetBackup, Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines.
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