We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series 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."Better performance and lower costs."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"It offers data compression and people management."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"It is a scalable product."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The solution is stable."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
"As I see it, there could be more interfaces, more cache, etc."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"The pricing could be improved."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem, 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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