We performed a comparison between HPE StoreOnce and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp and others in Deduplication Software."The initial setup is one of the most user-friendly B2B user solutions. It's good, it's easy. Deployment usually takes less than one day. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance."
"The hardware is strong and all the equipment has a good infrastructure. Personally, I think it's the best storage product in HPE for small to medium-sized businesses."
"The valuable feature is the ability to work with the Veeam software to reduce the backup windows."
"It's easy to backup data, manage. A"
"Currently, VTLs can only be created on individual service sets and cannot be used to share the resources of other nodes."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The important feature is compression and duplication. It has a good compression ratio and is very stable."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The solution must provide backup options for smaller capacities."
"The web interface, ease of use, and GUI all need to be improved."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
"Hardware maintenance involves some downtime for backup destination storage which can be a problem for some."
"We're outsourced with a partner who recalls a larger amount of problems with the stability of the product."
"HPE StoreOnce needs to be made cheaper than products from Dell and Veeam."
"The solution's technical support should be faster."
"HPE StoreOnce should come with a detailed installation guide."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery.
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