IT Network Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 4, 2020
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.
Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go.
IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Jul 29, 2019
The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal.
Lead Technical Specialist at a tech services company
Jun 30, 2017
For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application.
System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets
Mar 12, 2019
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.
Product Brand Manager at Epsidon Technology Distribution
Jan 18, 2022
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.
IT Network Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 4, 2020
Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks.
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.
IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Jul 29, 2019
The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well.
A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution.
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jul 29, 2019
In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them.
Lead Technical Specialist at a tech services company
Jun 30, 2017
It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement.
System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets
Mar 12, 2019
Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process.
Product Brand Manager at Epsidon Technology Distribution
Jan 18, 2022
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.
