We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use it for complete backup and recovery. We have multiple clients and have created multiple large virtual capabilities and zoning backlogs."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable."
"It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."
"We don't need to manage different devices."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"The solution is strong."
"The backup and restore functions are very valuable aspects of the product."
"Best feature is its three-tier backup."
"The backup and restore features work very well."
"Management interface was simple to use once understood."
"The most valuable feature is replication because, using NetBackup replication, we can have disaster recovery of the data we have."
"Veritas NetBackup provides good backup performance, and I can mount the snapshot without an installer."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"If you are running on a legacy tape environment NetBackup is best."
"The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products."
"There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity."
"We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"The solution should be easier to use."
"The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."
"Dell PowerProtect DP needs to include more features and improve backup for a continual base."
"In terms of improvement, it's very difficult to make it work with multiple business units. Its security model is too constricted."
"I do not really like NetBackup as it is coming from a mix of other software packages."
"Setup implementation."
"Like the other enterprise solutions, Veritas NetBackup isn't easy to implement. It's a little bit hard compared to other solutions like Data Protector for HPE. You have to struggle to learn a lot of features that Veritas NetBackup offers to customers."
"This solution would benefit from a more friendly, web-based interface."
"The most common problem is the backup failures over the weekend. We have to troubleshoot and sometimes do restores and then we have trouble doing some of the restores."
"The product must enable data migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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