We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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 helps our customers protect their data, especially with stuff like ransomware, compliance, and regulatory requirements."
"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"It scales from very small to very large. It is easily the most scalable product out there."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"It is also a product that has been maturing for a long time. This is good because customers need reliability in their enterprise initiatives."
"I have found that the most valuable feature is useful documentation and troubleshooting."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"The scheduled backups ensure we meet the requirements for our business, and we keep backups of certain environments."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is information backup."
"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."
"The solution is useful for backups."
"The most valuable features of Veritas NetBackup Appliance are the ease of use and the familiar interface."
"I have no stability issues to report...The initial setup is quite simple."
"Installing this solution is very simple and takes perhaps five or ten minutes."
"The utilization of Data Domain is crucial because of its integration with a key Veritas feature: retention lock. This feature ensures data integrity by preventing any alterations to stored data. When NetBackup interacts with Data Domain, enabling the retention lock feature ensures that neither administrators nor backup personnel can modify data stored within the system. This functionality is vital for compliance purposes and meets the requirements of auditors."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a total backup solution. We don't have to buy other applications to do it."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"I would like to see the operations center be a lot more functional. It was nowhere near as functional as the admin center, and I'm doing a lot of command line with it."
"Integration with Windows environments needs improvement. It should be more "assisted", both at the application and database level. It remains a product that fits better in Unix/Linux environments than in Windows environments, given its configuration procedures."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"They could improve the interface a bit."
"It's an expensive solution."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
"The technical support services could be better."
"The hybrid model is not that efficient if we want to off-site data; it takes a lot of time to upload the data on a regular basis."
"The product must improve its recovery features."
"The upgrade process of the solution needs to be improved since it is extremely complicated, especially without the benefit of a support person who can guide one through it."
"The tool's pricing is expensive and could be lower."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 47 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". 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 NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE StoreOnce. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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