We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and N-able Cove Data Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Veeam Backup & Replication and N-able Cove Data Protection, both products have easy and straightforward setups. However, Veeam Backup & Replication is known for its simplicity and user-friendliness, while N-able Cove Data Protection is valued for its reliability and ease of use. Veeam Backup & Replication offers extensive documentation and a helpful forum, while N-able Cove Data Protection prioritizes security against ransomware attacks with its cloud-first architecture. Veeam Backup & Replication has areas for improvement in cost, integration, scalability, and support, whereas N-able Cove Data Protection focuses on enhancing image restores, graphical interface, and disaster recovery capabilities.
"It's extremely important that Cove provides cloud-based data protection with backup, disaster recovery, and archiving. That is a necessity for my insurance. As an IT company, my insurance would cost more if my backups were not offsite and off-network."
"I know I won't have an issue if the data is there. The reliability and the confidence that we have is amazing. It doesn't matter. We've had customers have ransomware. We've had customers that have had corruption. We've had customers that have had employees destroy their data. As long as it's been backed up, I know that I can get it back and I know I have nothing to worry about. Our confidence level is very high."
"What I like the most about it's the ease of use and the reliability that it has when copying information to the cloud."
"It provides a single dashboard for all types of data protection, we monitor everything through a single dashboard. It simplifies everything overall. It allows us to see everything, whether passing or failing any issues, any problems through a single pane of glass that we don't have to click through or adjust as we go forward."
"We use a neat feature called VDR status, Virtual Disaster Recovery status. It only works on servers... It's automated. Once or twice a month it will virtually mount the backup and provide a screenshot and advise whether or not there have been any errors."
"The initial setup of N-able Cove Data Protection was very easy."
"One of the bigger features and advantages of the solution is that it is easy to integrate with my RMM which is also N-able."
"The ease of use and the console are great."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Most of the features that we can use with HPE products are directly integrated with the Veeam. This is very important for the customers to have only one pane of glass to manage the backups and also use the HPE products for the backups."
"Veeam replication gives migration tools/options for VMware."
"The integration of Veeam Backup Replication is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the recuperation of the weaker machines."
"Veeam is easy to use."
"The solution works well in two different environments, whether it is on-premises, cloud, or a combination."
"The reporting feature and functionality need improvement. We would like to see a little bit more detailed reporting that offers more CEO or C-level focused reporting options."
"Integration with a hybrid cloud is something that I found complicated."
"For small amounts of data, recovery is easy, but when it's large amounts of data, it takes forever. So, if they can have a service where they put our data on a hard drive and ship it to us as fast as possible, it would be great. Even if there's a fee associated with it, it's fine."
"For the MSP side, they could have more of a "security user" that can go in and only see certain clients. If you give somebody access as a technician, they can see all the clients."
"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."
"A feature I'd like to see would be a more customizable admin console."
"N-able Cove Data Protection for Microsoft 365 is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The only area that needs improvement is that it is a little bit difficult when you get into virtual machines. The initial deployment of Cove is a little tedious, not for standard machines, but when you get into specialty stuff, like Hyper-V."
"Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having better integration with the cloud. Additionally, they do not have direct integration to S3 or Azure storage for the backups of the VMs. This feature would be beneficial because we have to go through the scalable repository which I do not like."
"The solution is rather weak when it comes to database integration."
"I would like a solution for SAP systems to be included."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"We would like to have the ability to perform more things on the web interface. The heavy client is still needed to perform advanced tasks."
"It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there."
N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup, MSP360 Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our N-able Cove Data Protection vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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