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Veritas

Backup Exec

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10
Category
Backup Exec
8.3 /10

What is Backup Exec?

Backup Exec gives you simple, complete backup and recovery protection for your business—to cover all data wherever it resides.

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Awards & Recognition

Backup Exec won the following awards in the Backup and Availability category

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Backup Exec Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Backup Exec?

1% Negative
10% Neutral
89% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Helps Innovate
  • Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

87

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

85

Application Awareness

85

Backup Automation

85

Deduplication Implementation

84

File Explorer Granular Restore

84

Replication for High Availability

84

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

84

Virtual Machine Backup

83

Backup of Cloud Based Data

83

Integration With Storage Arrays

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Vendor Support

87

Business Value Created

85

Ease of Implementation

84

Quality of Features

84

Ease of IT Administration

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Ease of Customization

81

Breadth of Features

80

Ease of Data Integration

79

Usability and Intuitiveness

79

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Backup Exec Reviews

Silvia C.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

"Top-notch Security!"

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?

Veritas Backup Exec has secured all our systems and files since we started using this. We have not had any issues regarding performance or threats since we are using this. Its functionality requires minimum efforts and requirements that’s why it is very easy to install and implement.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Veritas Backup Exec is very simple to use and their installation process is also very simplified as do not need to do any complex process. They provide us the chance to improve the apps and system by improving the security of our system and files and making them threat free.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Veritas Backup Exec needs to make its pricing more reasonable and affordable. They also need to improve their notification system as sometimes we do not receive any kind of notification and changes are made without our consent. They need to add a discovery-type module for the emails.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Veritas Backup Exec is best recommended as it allows us to have a detailed view of our system and remove the threats.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Effective Service

Ahmad M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2022

Veritas Backup Exec - Amazing Product!!

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?

Friendly use easy to deploy for server and deploying agents on servers backup and restore wizard are easy than competitors

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Granular Restore Technology (GRT) and backing up data to cloud storage

What do you dislike most about this product?

it has limitations for exchange GRT while implementing DAG under Hyper-V

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Use Backup Exec instance license and it will be better for you than Terabyte license

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Dejan N.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Government
  • Involvement: Initial Implementation
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2022

Easy to use, perfect for LTO

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Backup Exec from other similar products?

LTO features

What do you dislike most about this product?

Licensing extending You need to Upgrade Veritas to new version prior to extend license

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Always update veritas to latest version

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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