We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Tivoli CDP for Files, 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."It allows us to have one interface."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"Scalability: Our customers are able to grow the product without having to buy additional hardware, so it is very scalable."
"It's a very stable product, and we've never had any downtime with it."
"The ability to migrate between media over a long period of time. My customers are long-time users, and they have benefited from being able to move between tiers. They have been able to do this within the product."
"You can scale the product."
"It is a really scalable solution. We can scale it up. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"I love the TDP for VMware because of the web interface and the possibilities provided by this tool. It's amazing."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"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."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"Ease of use."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"The reporting could be better."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"There could be various client systems and process integration included in the product."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The pricing could be improved."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
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