We performed a comparison between Commvault Cloud, IBM Spectrum Protect, and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Commvault provides data protection. Their engine is ransomware-agnostic so ransomware doesn't compromise our backup data. Therefore, we can rely on their data protection to recover and back up our production system."
"It's a software-based solution so we just need a license to expand it."
"We specialize in Commvault and IntelliSnap. Commvault covers all our customers' backup needs in one system, and they have complete control over their Snapshot backups. Snapshots are important to our customers because of the size of their data sets."
"The solution's stability is excellent."
"It's very easy to set up the storage across all platforms. This allows us to be dynamic and change on-the-fly."
"The Commvault Complete Data Protection interface is straightforward to use."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, the graphical interface, and it's high speed."
"The expanse of the decoys that they have is valuable. They cover everything on the corporate side that you would think of, such as Windows, Linux, and even applications like SAP. They also go into the OT environment and emulate OT devices as well."
"Our customers have come to trust IBM."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"Technical support is okay. We have not had many issues with them."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"Data archiving is easier and less time-consuming."
"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"When you deploy Complete Data Protection for past services, it's more complicated because you cannot directly back up from the previous service host. We have to build a proxy server, like a middleware, to directly access the past database server. It's complex and hard for beginners to figure out."
"I would like to see more customizable reports. I have reports going right now, but the daily report, for example, shows something like 40 jobs that ran when there are just a few endpoints on there. I'd like to just know if the endpoint was successfully backed up, not how many times. More customizable reports would be nice to have."
"One issue we face is the complexity of the console. That could be improved on. It takes users time to get familiar with Commvault. On average, it takes our customers between one and three months to learn it. The console and the way you configure Commvault have very advanced settings. It takes time to understand how it works."
"The solution needs better Office 365 data backup management."
"I would like to see some of the code execute a little bit better when I add new licenses and assign licenses to users. I'd like to see that information update a little quicker."
"There could be improvements to the backup failures."
"It takes a lot of steps to implement backups. We have to do a lot of planning to make the solution work properly. It takes some time to create every policy. It's an easy task, but there are many steps. It's not as easy as using Veeam."
"I really struggled to configure HyperScale X as there was a lack of detailed documentation."
"I need two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. I need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"We should be talking about the capacity of the tape drives. That's the only problem."
"The solution should have better integration with VMware and with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus."
"I would love to see something which allows us to do an auto restart of backup jobs."
"The reporting could be better."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"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)."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"The pricing could be improved."
