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."Good user interface."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"It provides our customers with the comfort of having reliable enterprise data protection."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"What I found most valuable in IBM Spectrum Protect is that it allows you to back up physical machines, and its proxy feature lets you back up virtual machines."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"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."
"We are still using TSM Manager for many of our projects to administer our platform because the gap was not resolved with the new Operations Center."
"I find the Level 1 and Level 2 support spend 80% of the time communicating the same information that I have already provided."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"The Hyper-V and SQL Server backup could be improved. In the 2016 version there was a significant improvement, but I think IBM has a big challenge with these technologies."
"Stability is very good now. It used to be rocky years ago."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the service aspect."
"It needs some software upgrades to fix some of its current bugs."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th 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 Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) 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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