We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and Veritas NetBackup 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."The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."
"The support from IBM is very good."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"Large-scale recoveries are very straightforward."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"We can easily expand the ability of the solution."
"The solution offers very good storage efficiency, so there's excellent compression and deduplication within the product that our clients really appreciate."
"Its ability to cover a large spectrum of products and operating systems is invaluable. We evaluated other products but always found certain limitations like some products had only intel-based virtualization, while others had power servers."
"The backup and restore features are helpful."
"I have found it to be the simplest solution to the market. It gives us a complete end to end solution. We are using this solution, Veritas Appliance and another one for access archiving. It is convenient to have all the support from one vendor."
"We are quite satisfied with the performance and reliability of the NetBackup product. When it comes to specific features, the most valuable is the Instant Recovery feature, which we call "short-term IR". Instant Recovery allows users to spin up backup images and bring back any VM instantly."
"If you are running on a legacy tape environment NetBackup is best."
"The solution has been very good over the years at fine-tuning various aspects of the product so that it is continuously made better."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"The user experience is very bad and the interface needs to be improved."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"Their first level of support can be improved. Often they are too junior to understand the issues we are having, and it takes too much time to get from them to the next level of support, which is what we actually need."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
"Extra features come with additional costs."
"It would be extremely helpful if the solution offered near-zero recovery time for SQL."
"Enhancing reporting across the board would be beneficial."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better way to protect against ransomware attacks and a better way of logging issues where you don't have to enable the verbose logging to capture the problems."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"We had some issues with the hardware backup appliance."
"It gets a lot of new features, but improvements in basic functionality are often sacrificed for a shiny new bullet point to put on sales presentations."
"Veritas could simplify the firmware recovery in terms of the deployed. The process shouldn't be dependent on the agents. It should be completely agentless."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Atempo Digital Archive, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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