We performed a comparison between ExaGrid EX Series and Veritas NetBackup Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the process is fast, ensuring smooth backup and recovery operations at high speeds. However, the process becomes slower for long-term backups moved to the retention zone due to fragmentation. So, if the data is older than a few days, the speed may be limited, especially for non-deduplicated data in the landing zone."
"It is a solid and a quite simple solution, which is a good combination. The customers like the simplicity and its scale-out capacity. They like the support pricing, and even the extension capacity pricing, a fixed price, which the executive is offering in Czech market."
"The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."
"The solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and data deduplication. It's extremely easy to use and does a very good job of data deduplication and compression."
"One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated."
"The solution is very stable...The solution is very scalable."
"The policy-based backup feature is very helpful."
"NetBackup is based on really good architectural hardware, and Veritas has the best backup and replication technology in the world."
"We find the pricing is reasonable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can be used in many different kinds of systems."
"It has a lot of very good features. The virtual tape library (VTL) feature is most valuable. Overall, it is easy to use."
"Installing this solution is very simple and takes perhaps five or ten minutes."
"The solution uses minimal resources."
"The one place where we are sometimes losing the opportunity with ExaGrid is that a few customers still require a fiber channel connectivity, which is not always possible."
"The tool reduces storage footprint. However, clients are now storing data for longer durations with increasing requirements to retain backups for longer periods, particularly as a defense against ransomware attacks. As a result, the retention zone with duplicated data is experiencing more demand, leading to space constraints. This necessitates using higher-end, more expensive models to address the issue."
"The product's documentation can be made more precise."
"When speaking about a scale-out, you want to have better equipment. You cannot just add a disc to the foreign equipment. You have to buy another one and put it together, like parallel."
"I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers."
"The solution could improve by switching to a flash-type solution rather than the spinning drives that they currently use. However, we have not had any failure with the spinning drives. The flash-type drives are more up-to-date and are something that is in their roadmap."
"Feature-wise, it is quite good, but it is very costly. Its price has gone up quite significantly over the years, and that makes people like us look at alternatives."
"I would like to see a product that requires less expertise to manage it."
"The technical support services could be better."
"The desirability of appliance solutions is dwindling in the marketplace."
"The NetBackup software is based on Red Hat Linux, but we should have multiple software options for that. We should have more OS options. Also, there are too many tools and intermediaries. Everything should be built into an all-in-one solution."
"The price needs to be improved because it is really expensive."
"They could improve the interface a bit."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
ExaGrid EX Series is ranked 7th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 6th in Deduplication Software with 46 reviews. ExaGrid EX Series is rated 9.0, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ExaGrid EX Series writes "Integrates well, reasonably priced, and provides high level support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". ExaGrid EX Series is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, Quantum DXi Series, NetApp FAS Series and DD Boost, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, HPE StoreOnce and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our ExaGrid EX Series vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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