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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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  • "Technical support is pretty good. It is doing fine, but you pay for it."
  • "Licensing can be either complicated or simple depending on what type of licensing you wish to use and what works best for your environment."
  • "At scale, the consumption license (per TB) is very expensive."
  • "Use capacity licensing. It's easier and cheaper."
  • "We worked our licensing into a capacity model, which is nice. Now, everything is much simpler to manage from a licensing perspective.​"
  • "We chose IBM Spectrum Protect, because they actually have something called MSP pricing, which means managed services provider pricing. The pricing was attractive, and it seems to be a platform that IBM is totally investing on in terms of new functions and new capabilities."
  • "Spectrum Protect is not expensive, and it is simple to use."
  • "It is very scalable, but the downside is that it costs money."
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  • "My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There is no need to pay any additional fees apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups.
    Top Answer:The platform is neither highly priced nor inexpensive. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.
    Top Answer:The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement. There could be an agent-less backup and recovery mechanism. In the next release, I would recommend the inclusion of a… more »
    Top Answer:The solution has helped reduce my company's cost by around 50 to 60 percent.
    Top Answer:I don't see any scope for improvement in the product since it is a well-established solution. My company has not faced any production-related issues with Veritas System Recovery, as it has stayed… more »
    Top Answer:I use the solution for daily backup and the restoration of backup files.
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    17th
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    Also Known As
    IBM TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
    Veritas System Recovery 18, System Recovery 18, System Recovery
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    Overview
    IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) is a data protection platform that gives enterprises a single point of control and administration for backup and recovery. It is the flagship product in the IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) family. It enables reliable, cost effective backups and fast recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes.

    Veritas System Recovery 18 delivers superior backup and disaster recovery for servers, desktops, and laptops with a single unified solution that enables businesses to recover from downtime or disasters in minutes. With patented Restore Anyware technology, IT administrators can rapidly restore exactly what they need, when and where they need it - including entire physical and virtual machines to bare metal or dissimilar hardware as well as files, folders, and granular application objects. Unlike other technologies, Veritas System Recovery also provides cross-platform Physical to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual to-Physical (V2P) recoveries, making it the perfect complement to physical and virtual environments.

    Sample Customers
    CERN, Einstein Healthcare, Nyherji, Allianz Australia, TZM, ABT Online, NCT, Kindred Healthcare Inc., Cobalt Iron, TransGrid, Baptist Health of Northeast Florida, Cash America, Piedmont Healthcare, RWGV, Arkansas Tech University, British Columbia Institute of Technology
    Mother's Nutritional Center, Occidental Technical Group
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Healthcare Company13%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Insurance Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Retailer8%
    Government8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise55%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business56%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise33%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    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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