We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli CDP for Files, Veeam Backup & Replication, and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"Veeam's file monitoring capabilities are strong and consistent."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"The backup and replication capabilities are quite good."
"Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data."
"Its stability and scalability were the main reasons for going for this solution. It is highly scalable, and its stability is also powerful. It has a friendly interface, and its monitoring and performance are the best in the market."
"It is a straightforward solution. There is no need for a dedicated technical person to do the backup and replication. Veeam is very straightforward when it comes to doing the replication."
"Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery."
"They provide good technical support and we are satisfied with the support we have received."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"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."
"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."
"They can improve the features and Veeam Enterprise Manager. The interface and features are kind of limited. It would be good if they can provide more features and a better interface. For example, if I want to provide certain users with the privilege to back up and restore and do day-to-day tasks, I cannot do it in the current version. It is like you either give everything to everyone or no user can have access to anything. In version 9, a lot of features were missing, and it wasn't clear. Version 10 is easier from the communication perspective, and the disk backup option is very clear."
"They need to improve their technical side."
"The implementation was straightforward. However, we used an integrator, the process could be easier for us to do it ourselves."
"It would be nice if it could be integrated with third-party solutions like ours. It has been supporting just Windows and virtual machines."
"I have issues with the licensing."
"I think that Veeam could improve some performance issues when the backup itself is restored. I'm also using HPE StoreOnce, which has deduplication, and when I'm trying to test or run backups, it takes a lot of time. I think they could improve the testing for backup copies."
"The VMotion feature is not reliable enough to ensure a successful migration operation."
"The ease of use could be improved, but I don't have a very deep amount of experience in Veeam, so it's difficult to say what could be improved."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"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."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"The pricing could be improved."
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