"The support from IBM is very good."
"The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud."
"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its ease of use. Additionally, it does backups of all of the things we need, such as OS, files, and databases."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"We used to use the solution with tapes a few years ago. We've switched to discs, and it has gotten much faster."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve security."
"You end up needing to do a lot of troubleshooting to get things to work effectively."
"IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by adding SAP Rena."
"In the future, I would like to see support for global deduplication."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"The pricing could be improved."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 34th in Backup and Recovery Software with 8 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery Software with 29 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 7.2, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Quick, simple deployment, relatable and responsive technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Excellent backup capabilities with good technical support and a fairly easy initial setup". IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup and Commvault Complete Data Protection, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Acronis Backup and Veritas System Recovery. See our IBM Spectrum Protect Plus vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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