Veritas Alta Recovery Vault Reviews

My main use case for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is to have backup for my Office 365 environment.

For my Office 365 environment, I have many scenarios where I use Veritas Alta Recovery Vault. A user left the company, and they need his PST files to be exported and attached to his replacement. Or in case they need to go back for a previous email from three years back, I can put some criteria to research for this specific email and restore it. Or I need to restore some OneDrive for some users, or chat for some meetings. There are many scenarios.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault has a feature called Cases, so I can build my cases and put some criteria based on time, or sender, or subject. Based on this case, I can create it, run it, and export this specific case.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault offers multiple best features. I can enable immutability to avoid any deletion by mistake or by ransomware attack for our backup. They also have a feature called ad-hoc search, so if I need to search for specific items, whether email or OneDrive or SharePoint site, I have multiple criteria to put whatever I want and search for specific items. I can restore some data to the live environment directly, or I have tools that I can customize and export something, whether PST or EML files or OneDrive files. They have many features and some analysis in case I need to see the increase of backup size and prepare for the renewal, or if I need to delete some backup to reduce the storage because I don't need to exceed my license.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault has positively impacted my organization because in case some users left, I don't care if they delete their old archive files because I have backup for their emails or OneDrive, even SharePoint. If an administrator deletes the site by mistake, I can recover it. This takes a lot of headache off from the user perspective. Any data lost or removed by the users can be restored. If management asks for any data, it is available, so we are not relying on the data available in the user PCs.

I have seen many specific outcomes since using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault. The major benefit for us is that many users left, and the business did not tell us that their emails or OneDrive or SharePoint data or Teams is important. They just wake up after six months or one year, and suddenly they ask for their emails. With Veritas Alta Recovery Vault, we have good retention, and everything is saved. By enabling immutability, we can respond to the business needs without any issues, complying with the regulations. Even the headache is less; based on the staff number, we have a small support staff number, so we save a lot of support and maintenance time. While I do not have exact KPIs or metrics numbers, it saves almost 30% of our incidents and time.

I think Veritas Alta Recovery Vault can be improved by changing their license model and being more flexible. Currently, they are charging us for the size of the backup storage, while some other solutions claim to have unlimited backup storage. The pricing is increasing heavily. Since it is an enterprise solution, it is okay that it should be expensive, but they need to enhance their license model because they are selling only for a minimum of 1,000 Office 365 users. For a small environment, this is not applicable. Additionally, they are providing only 2TB per user, so I need to purchase extra storage since the default storage that comes with the normal user license is not enough. They need to enhance their pricing and licensing model.

The issue I face with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is that if I need to move from their service to other solutions, there is no clear idea about the grace period to migrate the backup data to another solution, and it relies only on the user. This is also one more concern; if I want to go with them and buy their solution, I need to be careful because it feels like a one-way ticket.

I have been using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault for almost five years.

I chose eight out of ten for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault because of the price and the response time of support.

We are using Veeam for on-prem workloads and servers, and I am still using Veeam for on-prem, but for Office 365, I switched to Veritas Alta Recovery Vault.

I have seen a return on investment, especially in having fewer employees needed and big time saved.

The setup cost for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is included with the license, but their pricing is a little expensive compared with other solutions.

Since we are a construction company, I find that I rely on email communications heavily, so I consider our backup using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault not just as an archive, but I can use it as an archive to keep backup for long retention. They have many advanced cases or features. They have good flexibility options to restore whether single items, or directly to the live environment, or export it manually and attach it to the user computers. Even they have some features to give access to the users to restore their items depending on the policy. They have a lot of features, and as a SaaS solution, there is no hardware or implementation. The backend connectors are implemented by them, and I only manage these connectors for the schedule, RTO, and RPO. The storage and the backup server are managed by them.

The content, the ad-hoc search, the configuration of the backup, the license, and the monitoring are all important features of Veritas Alta Recovery Vault. Even for SharePoint, in case I have a SharePoint expanding and do not have enough license for Office 365, I can enable the stubbing and rely on the SharePoint to be on the backup of the SharePoint. This allows me to reduce the live storage of the SharePoint and point it to the backup, so people can access their SharePoint sites and upload many documents without adding an extra license from Office 365, relying on this stubbing feature.

Regarding Veritas Alta Recovery Vault's AI capabilities, they have very good accuracy, with almost 99% accurate statistics or numbers. For reliability, I can rely on them; it is a very reliable solution. My overall rating for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is eight out of ten.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is being used for SharePoint backup, email backup, OneDrive backup, and user OneDrive backup.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault will help reduce manual intervention and error rates because once it is scheduled, manual intervention is not required. The tape out and storage management will be handled by the smart intelligent tool.

It is easy to recover data with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault and it directly goes to the user's profile.

Intelligent deduplication is important to me. This is a feature which I feel is highly recommended with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault and it is a good to have feature.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault will help optimize efficiency and storage efficiency because it reduces the data size. This feature is definitely used.

Encryption is the most important feature in data protection with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault as we are in an era of ransomware. The data is already kept encrypted in storage as part of our protection strategy.

Granular recovery options are not currently being used, but they will definitely help with our data recovery process.

The flexibility of Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is important to me because it can be deployed on cloud and on-premises. In fact, Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is being used to keep the data in storage as well as in the tape drive.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault has not presented any negatives to date. For the last four years, it has been used without any issues.

It is now time to introduce some AI-based features with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault. For example, if the source changed something unintentionally or intentionally, it should keep the backup of and start the backup automatically instead of relying on the script and the scheduler.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault has been in use for almost two to three years.

A rating of 98% is fair enough. Sometimes it takes a longer time to back up encrypted files. For example, if encryption is done in a Word file or OneDrive files, then it takes too long to back up that file. The restoration time is also very long.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is scalable.

The customer support for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is amazing. A rating of nine out of ten points, with ten being the best, is appropriate.

The installation of Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is straightforward.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault definitely provides ROI. In the corporate world, data is the most important asset. When there was a tough time with a virus, Veritas helped keep the data safe, which was very helpful.

Quantifying ROI could be around ten percent. Time savings are being referred to in the context of ROI.

Considering the critical situation, the price of Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is fair enough.

Different POCs were conducted with different OEMs and it was found that the deduplication was really effective with Veritas. After that, when Veritas Alta Recovery Vault was started, it was found that encryption is also a very good feature. Multiple sources of backup are being taken with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault, making it a good tool to have.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault can be given an overall rating of 8.9, something around nine out of ten. With almost 24 years spent in IT and 15 years in this company, this assessment is informed by extensive experience.

We are a service provider for Veritas, and we have 20 customers using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault with some main buckets installed in Brazil, São Paulo. We use long-term retention and provide a disaster recovery site for customers who don't have another site for replication.

The best feature of Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is resilience because it has protection for ransomware, and you can use it with the immutability native option to protect this data, along with a predictive cost model. There are no cloud surprises about the cost.

The immutability feature of Veritas Alta Recovery Vault has helped me and my customers protect their data.

It is very important for us to protect data for a customer with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault because many customers in the past have experienced a data leak and have experienced some type of attack in their infrastructure. We provide this feature to protect all data of this customer today. It is a good point.

Customer trust has increased since using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault because we guarantee this data for this customer. We conducted a test recovering this data, and the customer is very comfortable with this protection and solution.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault can be improved as it is a seamless tool for integration with infrastructure on-premises because you only need an API communication to send this data locally to reply to the cloud. The single pane of glass means there is no need to deploy complex cloud storage gateways or separate cloud proxy servers. It integrates directly into the core NetBackup engine using MSDP-C. We just need to attach this storage pool, and everything works to send the replication data from on-prem to off-prem.

The improvement needed for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is to simplify multi-cloud redundancy with a single-click policy that handles cross-cloud because natively we can choose one region to replicate this data. This is abstracted from the cloud providers, and I just select in the front-end and create a bucket, while the back end directs me to AWS. I think that the involved cost to choose Azure or another cloud provider is a consideration.

I have been using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault for four years.

Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is stable in my experience. We need to change the region to improve access, but in a few days or months, we can use another region like US Virginia. It works well, but there is a bigger latency in this traffic. We need to change the region to improve the performance.

I believe that the scalability of Veritas Alta Recovery Vault perfectly meets my needs, as I only need to create an API and, after configuring that connection, everything works fine. Each bucket has 8 PB and the client only pays for the TB/PB consumed.

Our customer support for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault involves the customer talking with me or open a ticket issue. In most cases, the problem involves the traffic on client side.

It's very simple

I have seen a return on investment, and I can share that I have a fixed price for each bucket to provide to our customers, and we can do this in just a second.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is that it is the cheapest feature we can provide to our customers. It really is more than cheap to provide Veritas Alta Recovery than to provide hardware or another option in the cloud. The price is the best feature.

Before choosing Veritas Alta Recovery Vault, I evaluated other options by talking with the customer, and the only option we considered was using AWS or Azure for making a separated backup. but this represent more cost

The best advice I can give to customers considering using Veritas Alta Recovery Vault is not to worry about cost; there are no charges for data traffic, only for the value of the data consumed. Unlike any other cloud backup solution, with Veritas Alta Recovery Vault there are no price surprises. I would give this product a 10 out of 10.