We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"It's very robust and has been on the market for a long time."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"Data reduction definitely reduces costs, not only software costs, but from the infrastructure needed."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"Nakivo's reporting features have helped a lot. They give my boss high visibility into what's going on, which is crucial because we had a data breach in the past where we lost about 12 years of data. That's why we bought several appliances, and we replicate the same backup twice a day to three different depositories."
"This product provides cost-efficient and reliable backups."
"I could install and configure the trial version in maybe half an hour and had a successful backup of our file server on the same night."
"Nakivo gives users confidence in knowing that if something happens with their application server, exchange server, or other applications, they can recover it easily and quickly."
"The product license and support delivery have been great!"
"Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost."
"The backup and replication are great."
"Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure."
"This is a complete solution, everything is under one console."
"Best feature is its three-tier backup."
"The solution offers very good storage efficiency, so there's excellent compression and deduplication within the product that our clients really appreciate."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature as it reduces the backup time and provides backup of a single copy of data"
"The solution is easy to scale."
"Good graphical user interface. It's easy to create policies and to do installs."
"Deduplication is quite efficient. It is not a complex product. It is quite simple."
"What I like most is it is a professional product. It supports all kinds of technologies, and I consider it one of the best backup products available."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."
"We would like to see cloud integration."
"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."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"The usability of IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved, specifically additional features to the product in the operations center. Additional reporting facilities and stronger reporting tools such as build dashboards would be beneficial."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"More statistic options would be a great feature."
"There are some errors requiring support to correct and bugs and glitches should be addressed."
"I would like to have a built-in SNMP client, which is important if we want to monitor it using Zabbix, Nagios, or another monitoring solution."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"There is a familiar error that pops up and that is a VM error as much as it is a Nakivo error. It says that the job couldn't calm the VM and restores might be impacted. That error is, to say the least, a bit scary. I have seen this type of error on other backup systems also."
"Integrations maybe helpful for NAKIVO. I think end-to-end backup and user backup will be useful to have. The price could be reduced as well. I also think that AD integration should be more available."
"An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules."
"One complaint I have is the dashboard flashing as it reloads/refreshes itself. The program was not always like that and it happened after an update at some point."
"Within their product lineup, they need to consolidate down to one product. Veritas doesn't have one product that does everything. So, Veritas can do everything, but you basically need to run two products. I would like them to combine all the capabilities into one release."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"It gets a lot of new features, but improvements in basic functionality are often sacrificed for a shiny new bullet point to put on sales presentations."
"The solution could have a more clear dashboard about the license and the operation status."
"The solution must provide a different way to schedule backups."
"In terms of improvement, it's very difficult to make it work with multiple business units. Its security model is too constricted."
"NetBackup's reporting features are a little poor."
"It needs support for Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVMs)."
