Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 vs. Veritas Backup Exec

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Veeam® Backup for Microsoft Office 365 eliminates the risk of losing access and control over Office 365 data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams — so that data is always protected and accessible.N/A
Veritas Backup Exec
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
Veritas Backup Exec is a backup and disaster recovery solution. It works in virtual, physical, and multi-cloud environments and integrates with several third-party software releases and applications.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
BaaS for Microsoft 365
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Chose Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
It didn't make it pass the review.
Chose Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Veeam has all of the options but is lightweight and works perfectly for backup of items in the cloud such as Office 365
Chose Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Veeam is stable and offers some level of scalability in comparison to other products on the market. In addition to that, it offers backup solutions on the premises. Because of these capabilities, we find ourselves reaching for this program above others, such as the Metallic …
Chose Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Veeam [Backup for Microsoft Office 365]'s interface and setup is much more intuitive than its competitors.
Chose Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
I have tried a few different products, but none of them have been as user friendly as Veeam.
Chose Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
We use Veeam Backup and Replication at my main site, and have since rolled it out to a second site due to the effectiveness; however, this couldn't back up Office 365 data on its own.

Backup Exec I found to be a good product in the earlier versions, however, the newer ones …
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365Veritas Backup Exec
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
8.8
82 Ratings
2% below category average
Veritas Backup Exec
8.6
22 Ratings
4% above category average
Management dashboard8.678 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Retention options9.081 Ratings8.518 Ratings
Encryption8.871 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Universal recovery00 Ratings10.018 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings7.517 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings10.017 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings6.521 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.516 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings8.516 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.519 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
8.7
73 Ratings
0% below category average
Veritas Backup Exec
-
Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.269 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.645 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery9.336 Ratings00 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
8.8
70 Ratings
4% below category average
Veritas Backup Exec
-
Ratings
SaaS Product Integration8.450 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options9.367 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search8.361 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises9.364 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365Veritas Backup Exec
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(217 ratings)
8.3
(25 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(8 ratings)
1.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(217 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(212 ratings)
5.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(5 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365Veritas Backup Exec
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam Software
Users who accidentally deleted databases stored in their OneDrive were not able to recover them via Microsoft backup, so I used Veeam backup for Office 365 to recover the files needed for an important project. Veeam for Office 365 is great, and it is easy to recover lost Microsoft Teams files in a meeting.
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Cohesity
Backup Exec works well generally in most environments or situations. The licensing can potentially be a nightmare, but manageable if you have a decent reseller. Backing up and restoring from physical tapes which is not all that common is not as reliable as when backing up and restoring from datastores that reside on hard drives or digital media. It does a good job with large or small backup jobs. Backing up and managing SQL backups requires additional licenses and be a bit clunky. If you are very careful (which you should be anyway) and document as you build these backups you will get better at managing them. Regarding a virtual environment, I have limited experience in that arena, but have done it. Backup Exec can backup VMware environments, but honestly we moved to Unitrends to backup our VM's and are much happier with the backup process. However, restoring a VM in Unitrends can be tedious compared to Backup Exec.
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Pros
Veeam Software
  • My CFO seemed to have lost a whole year of important emails. I simply restored them to his mailbox in a matter of minutes.
  • An employee left the company but an issue came up with a quote this person sent out. I could search his mailbox and got the quote as well as all communications from that customer.
  • It is nice to be able to search emails in various mailboxes without disturbing the user.
  • It is also nice to go back in time. Say they deleted those emails last month I can go back years if needed.
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Cohesity
  • Manage agent based backups - It is easy to schedule and monitor backups. Verifying backups is done for all jobs. Backup performance is excellent.
  • Provide a wide ranging contingent of backup options - Despite providing a dizzying array of backup options, it is easy to schedule individual or recurring jobs.
  • Integrates well with our Active Directory - Restoring even individual Active Directory objects is possible.
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Cons
Veeam Software
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 isn't 'multi geo' aware - this means we have to manually select resources to back up depending on their geo-location.
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 doesn't backup Private Channels users create in a Team - there are workarounds for this but it would be nice if this just worked.
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Cohesity
  • Could provide better license management from an inventory perspective. How many licenses do I have?.. etc.
  • When Backup Exec backs up itself it should not select iSCSI backup targets by default. The result is recursive data backup ending in the loss of storage capacity.
  • I'm struggling to come up with another con.
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Likelihood to Renew
Veeam Software
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 just works so well and is so easy to use. I researched multiple options for Office 365 backup and none seemed to be as easy to setup and use as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and the pricing was very comfortable to us. I can't imagine any reason why we would change away from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
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Cohesity
This software is a mess in my brutally honest opinion. I've spent more time babysitting this software while backing up 20 servers than I did with Veeam backing up 600+. I've had multiple jobs run fine for weeks at a time that just randomly fail out of the blue for seemingly no reason whatsoever. There's no intuitive way to chain jobs, so automation becomes somewhat more problematic if certain jobs depend on other jobs. The forever incremental feature feels tacked on since the merge operation merges all your incremental jobs into the most recent backup and doesn't have the option set a limit on how long to keep your point in time restores.
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Usability
Veeam Software
The functionality is very intuitive and easy to understand how to use the product. If anything, the information presented could be a little more verbose. I feel like it is lacking in the amount of information being shared regarding the backups compared to other products like Veeam Backup and Recovery.
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Cohesity
It can do a lot of things on paper and sounds terrific, but in practice it doesn't do any of them well. It can easily be sold to non-technical minds and C-levels, but of all the backup solutions I've used in the last 15 years of my career, Backup Exec is easily the least fault tolerant. Unless this software is a sunk cost and you're on a shoestring budget, I recommend almost anything else. Jobs fail often with obscure error codes and the KB articles in the Veritas support portal are a mess. Within 30 days of a fresh deployment I've logged more tickets with their support than I did in 3 years with Veeam.
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Reliability and Availability
Veeam Software
I have never dropped a backup window due to the software's fault.
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Cohesity
The weekly error on save needs a manual reload from me. The SDR can't restore the virtual machine of hyperV during a test.
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Performance
Veeam Software
We have a lot of data, and pulling backups out of the store sometimes takes a bit of time - but this is within acceptable tolerances. I don't expect restores to be instantaneous, and I can't quantify if the speed is software or data repository.
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Cohesity
No problem for this point it is in the average.
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Support Rating
Veeam Software
Even though we are a small non-profit, support has always been there for help when needed. They are responsive and knowledgeable. If there are any shortcomings from Veeam for support, it is entirely on our end. With a small IT department, we easily get backlogged with projects.
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Cohesity
In the few instances of having to contact support, our overall outcome was always good. They would have received a better score if the wait time was less, but I attribute this to the timing of support calls - it was during the previous owner's time. We have not had to open a support ticket since Veritas Backup Exec took the product back over.
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Implementation Rating
Veeam Software
Would have marked a 10 but the storage in AWS was very complicated. Would be nice to have more help/guidance connecting to external storage.
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Cohesity
It was pretty straightforward.
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Alternatives Considered
Veeam Software
As I stated earlier, Veeam is a great solution that just works and isn’t super expensive like with Rubrik, Cohesity etc. however it is bring your own storage. Whether that’s disk or cloud. However as a result it doesn’t have quite as many add one and features as those other products. But it does backup great.
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Cohesity
If your company is looking at changing solutions or currently does not have any, Veritas Backup Exec is the way to go. Do yourself a favor and try the 60 day trial, you won't be disappointed! Very simple to use and has a great GUI, much better than what the competition has to offer.
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Scalability
Veeam Software
I have had no issues scaling this software as my organisation or data estate has grown. It always does exaclty what it says on the box.
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Cohesity
We only use it on the on-premise version on a single site.
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Return on Investment
Veeam Software
  • We use this tool to store our most sensitive Data safely where it's easy to get access while even offline mode.
  • Streamlines our off boarding process for data retention by leveraging Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
  • Flexible data storage either onsite or in the cloud. Which is very cost effective.
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Cohesity
  • Backups by their very nature are difficult to quantify when it comes to ROI. Any monies spent should be seen more as insurance . If you never have to claim on it then that is the best outcome. Backup Exec gives you comfort that you can meet any downtime recovery targets set by your business and this is how to benchmark your solution.
  • Conduct regular DR tests and your this will be your ROI.
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