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."It is good in terms of functionality. My clients are very satisfied with this solution."
"It is scalable beyond anything my customers ever aspire to."
"The file-restoring feature is the most valuable."
"Our performance is better."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"Good user interface."
"It is also a product that has been maturing for a long time. This is good because customers need reliability in their enterprise initiatives."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"Software-wise, IBM Spectrum Protect didn't handle virtual machines that well. The license cost is mainly the area for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect."
"The previous GUI that they had was slow, and it did not have enough information on it."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"Ease of use."
"Better integration with other tools and databases is needed."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"There were scalability issues only in the brand new features which were recently released."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks."
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 Cohesity DataProtect, 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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