We compared Veritas NetBackup and Zerto based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Veritas NetBackup is praised for its versatility and integration with third-party applications. Users say Zerto offers excellent data protection, and it’s easy to create VMs. Users appreciate its virtual server backup capabilities, cloud integration, and malware protection. Veritas NetBackup would benefit from streamlining implementation and incorporating additional cloud solutions. Zerto users also like its real-time replication features. Zerto could improve cloud environment configuration, PowerShell scripting, and multi-site replication.
Service and Support: Some users reported positive experiences with Veritas customer service, but others said that it sometimes took a long time to resolve issues and support is inconsistent across regions. Customers have generally had positive experiences with Zerto's customer service, noting their quick response times and ability to resolve issues. Some customers have encountered slower response times and needed to go through multiple levels of support to get their issues resolved.
Ease of Deployment: Opinions on Veritas NetBackup's setup complexity are mixed, with some finding it straightforward and others perceiving it as more complex. The setup process for Zerto can be either simple or complicated, depending on the individual's experience with backup solutions.
Pricing: Opinions on Veritas NetBackup's pricing vary. Some consider it expensive but say it’s worth the price due to its extensive features. There are no additional fees aside from the basic license. Zerto’s price tag is considered reasonable and in line with industry norms. Others said it was somewhat expensive but still worth the cost.
ROI: Veritas NetBackup prioritizes constant availability and quick access, resulting in a positive ROI. Zerto reduces risks while saving costs and time. It increases efficiency, ensures compliance, and helps businesses grow.
Comparison Results: Users say Veritas NetBackup is a versatile solution that offers robust compatibility, seamless cloud integration, and strong protection against malware and ransomware. NetBackup received mixed reviews for pricing and ease of setup, and some users said it could improve its cloud support. Zerto offers top-tier data protection, excellent customer service, and real-time replication, but some users say its cloud and multi-site functionality could be better.
"Veritas NetBackup has significantly streamlined our backup and recovery processes by providing a single pane of view across various environments."
"The solution offers very good storage efficiency, so there's excellent compression and deduplication within the product that our clients really appreciate."
"Veritas NetBackup is a reliable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy solution."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"It is essential. We can't do without it."
"We are quite satisfied with the performance and reliability of the NetBackup product. When it comes to specific features, the most valuable is the Instant Recovery feature, which we call "short-term IR". Instant Recovery allows users to spin up backup images and bring back any VM instantly."
"The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions."
"Management interface was simple to use once understood."
"The most valuable features of this solution is the ease of use. In the event of a disaster, you don't need a technical person to actually run the software. You can bring anybody in, with the right instructions and credentials, and they can run the solution."
"Being hardware agnostic is nice in that we don't really need a 15 second recovery time. It's easy to use. It's always doing updates behind the scenes. These are the positive things. The setup is pretty easy. Building out the VPGs is pretty easy. And it works like it's supposed to."
"I like the ease of recovery and backup the most."
"Zerto is truly inspiring."
"I like that the failover is simple and that it's a stable platform. It makes it easy for us to do failovers in the event that we have an issue. It also makes it easier to do test failovers because we can test it prior to actually doing a real failover. This means that we can pull things back or commit them over on the other side. Zerto streamlines the process instead of having to have a whole team of people who are dedicated to disaster recovery."
"The most valuable features are the continuous streaming, that it takes very little CPU usage — it doesn't affect production — and the recovery time is very short."
"The ability to test which virtual machines can be failed over to our DR site without interruption of our production environment."
"If we lost our data center and had to recover it, Zerto would save us a great deal of time. In our testing, we have found that recovering the entire data center would be completed within a day."
"Main area that could be improved is the pricing, to make it more competitive"
"I think reporting can always be improved."
"The restoration method and the compression ratio need improvement."
"I also think they could improve the reporting. They use a web-based software application OpsCenter for the reporting and I see that they haven't made any changes in years."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
"What needs to be improved in Veritas NetBackup is its interface, e.g. they should make it more user friendly. Scalability for this product could still be improved, particularly its hardware appliance scalability."
"It should be able to integrate with the cloud. If we leverage a cloud in the future for backup, there should be very fast help and more options for customers to choose from."
"The ability to use different disk appliance brands as Pure Disk (not OST), such as EMC Data Domain ."
"I would like Zerto to enhance the continuous backup aspect."
"It is expensive."
"My only business complaint is the cost of the solution. I feel like the cost could be a tad lower, but we are willing to pay extra to get the Premium service."
"I need to get up to the latest version so I can move my journals to a particular LUN, saving them with a particular storage altogether, rather than with the virtual machine. This is not available until I upgrade, and I need to upgrade all my hypervisors. This would be something that would be nice to have if it could be used on older versions."
"Zerto added the backup feature, but it's not quite up to speed yet when you compare it with the backup capabilities of other solutions out there."
"It took me a little bit of time to get used to Zerto's terminology and to relate it back to how you do a backup traditionally. It was a little different. It took a little while to understand what a VPG is and what it does. That's an area that they could probably improve on a little, making the documentation easier to understand."
"The monitoring and alerting functionality need to be improved."
"I would like to see improvement on the Zerto Virtual Replication appliances, so that they are a little bit more streamlined as opposed to now where they just span multiple ZVR appliances like there were gremlins... as this thing grows it just spawns unlimited numbers of additional ZVR appliances and you end up with a bunch so that you can't really tell which is which."
Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 236 reviews. Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Acronis Cyber Protect. See our Veritas NetBackup vs. Zerto report.
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