Veritas Enterprise Vault Reviews

Email archiving is the most valuable because it frees up space in our Exchange servers dramatically. The choice of more than 31,000 customers worldwide, Veritas archiving solutions are used by small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) and the largest enterprises, across key vertical and horizontal industries.

It allows us to keep more of our emails for a longer amount of time because when it archives our old emails, it deletes them and places a small short cut in its place. This also frees up much needed space on our hard drives within our Exchange servers.

I believe it needs better reporting features as well as better way of managing SQL databases and their maintenance.

We have been using this solution for over 10 years now.

No we have not.

No we have not.

No we have not.

9/10

This initial setup was straightforward.

We currently have in-house technicians that are Symantec Master certified that implemented Enterprise Vault.

We currently have and still have a very high investment gains when compared to our investment cost.

The pricing and licensing of this product is very competitive based on Gartner position of Enterprise Vault.

There was no other solution available at the time.

The expertise of the tech support team at Veritas as well as the Gartner position of Veritas Enterprise Vault and the ease of installation makes implementing and using this product a breeze.

We are using the solution for email and file archiving, and compliance.

The most valuable features are ease of use and performance. However, the performance can depend on the workload being used.

The integration needs to improve.

I have been using this solution for approximately two years.

In my experience, the solution has been scalable.

We have engineers that deal with the technical side of this solution.

There is a license required for this solution and it is typically is paid annually.

I rate Veritas Enterprise Vault a nine out of ten.

The use cases for Enterprise Vault are data archiving, log backup, mail archiving and saving data space from the current environment.

The main purpose is data archiving: log backups and mail archiving. It can also be used for logs for previous access management and database.

Veritas Enterprise Vault does support object storage usage. Mail archiving is the primary need. You can also explore file archiving if you use a file server.

The data retention policies depend on the corporation and the regulations. Non-governance requires ten years of retention, while other non-regulated sectors typically require five years.

Veritas Enterprise Vault is very user-friendly for accessing mail archives because it is just a shortcut in Outlook or other mail clients. It can be used with an inactive server. User behavior is very smooth.

The troubleshooting process is very hard. If there is a problem, the entire team needs to get involved to solve the issue. It is a very complex product, and Veritas engineers should be more agile in supporting cases.

Nothing is easy to manage. It is very complex. 

I have been using it since 2016. 

It's a very sensitive product. For example, if you restart Enterprise Vault, which is located on different servers, it takes time to activate all system components. 

If you don't touch it, it's working fine.

There are over 250 end users. 

If you want to use best practices, then the setup takes a long time. It's very relevant. The best practice is to use a cluster structure. 

The deploying and implementation phase takes a minimum of two or three weeks to complete.

The deployment phase is very hard because a special client version is needed to plug in on the client side. For example, if a client doesn't access their archive mail, it becomes a crucial issue on the server side, and it takes a long time to resolve. It is a very long process.

The benefit is a reduced database size on your main server. This means you can manage your main server more easily, with less latency.

The pricing is very high. 

There is no competition in the product family like Veritas Enterprise Vault. It runs very well. I would give it an eight out of ten.

My advice would be: If you have 1000 end users and very large mailboxes, and you need to make sure the mail server is always available and working within your SLA claims, Enterprise Vault is really useful. It can also manage this process, but it depends on your users and processes.