Great of the existing clients we have so long as the annual subscription doesn't continue to climb well in excess of inflation.

great console, relevant features and easy of deploying agents across a network.

the product has become un attainable for most SME's with the start cost in excess of £1K

I like below services, 1. it use snapshot technology for backup. 2. we can schedule job for full backup, incremental and diffractal backup as per the requirement. 3. we can also encrypt data through software. 4. it provides data compression.

There should be available tape test tool.

Cost savings Less storage and bandwidth Enhanced backup security Fast recovery

Upgrading version Full and incremental backup sizing is the same suddenly

Veritas Backup Exec is a good choice for small to medium businesses with a relatively simple set up , not requiring many different agents to be backup up, and without excesses amounts of data. The licensing model is complicated and can be expensive, but I have seen great changes in the options supplied now - such as the Per VM model

Its great that Veritas Backup Exec has kept up to date with licensing, allowing per VM licensing via subscription. Ease of installation and use for those businesses without a very technical and dedicated IT Team. Compatible with most, if not all, tape libraries. Integrates well with Vmware

The licensing model is more complicated than others, ie Veeam - each agent needs to be licensed - makes for a complex licensing model. Backups are relatively slow. The dashboard is not as intuitive as its competitors interfaces.

It served me well for 25 years. However, I don't know what the current version can do. They were not able to show me a demo. In the end I bought Veeam. There are a few features that I use. There is the normal backup and restore. Replication on to the cloud. The 2 capabilities that I found important was (1) an IMMUTABLE Backup. It is a local secondary backup that can't be over written. Good protection against ransomware. It requires a Linux OS. (2) If the server crashes, I can bring up a backup and have people continue working until a new server is created. The only issue is that this can't be backed up while being accessible to the end user. Unitrend offers (2),but not (1). They only have Cloud Backup.

I used it for years and it was always reliable. However, I can't recommend the product any more. Read the cons.

In July & Aug 2023, I tried for 2 months get a demo of the latest version. I only had one return phone call and the person didn't follow up. No reply to emails even though I had this persons email address. I was totally ignored. The sales agent said that they are understaffed because of COVID from the last 2 years. It wasn't possible to see a demo of the latest version. I gave up after 2 full months. I had older versions that stopped working once the server NetframeWork was upgraded. Veritas said one could only buy a newer version. They were not going to fix the older versions.

Smooth transition and works well

Use friendly and quite easy to manage dash board easily accessible and looks and feels great , great alerts

Updated dont happen often the process is quite long not so easy to perform

Since our enterprise data was not that much initially, we got Backup Exec. It was easy to use. Offer3

The limit on using the tape drive is a major disadvantage. The slow backup is another one.

Overall I have been very satisfied with the product.Deployment is superfast and interface is user friendly

Ability to manage different environment from single interface .Flexibility of protection of SaaS application , Virtual , Cloud etc.

Ability for MSP to manage multiple customer will be a good add on

It does decent backups, and when testing restores I haven't had a single failure.

UI needs a bit of work - it feels clunky and outdated.

The tool is easy to setup and trial. Backups ran without issue

Not much integration Office 365 and other management tools such as Manage Engine