We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Dell NetWorker 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."Arcserve has a feature called virtual standby (VSB), which has been very helpful because I already have a hot standby copy of my critical infrastructure. If something breaks, I can spin up that virtual standby copy in less than five minutes and ensure that my data is available to everyone and that business continuity is maintained."
"The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"It is easy to configure."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"The product's deployment process was straightforward."
"I like the tool's speed."
"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is the initiative UI and the logs are clear and detailed that are generated when there has been an issue or failure on the user's system. We only have to log onto the client's system to retrieve the information. It is possible to precisely identify the problem's location. The system categorizes and logs every step in a structured manner, selectively displaying only the essential logs. However, to view a comprehensive log, one must access the line machine log and examine the actual client for detailed logging."
"It's a good product that can be integrated easily with the Data domain."
"Dell NetWorker's user interface is quite simple and very interactive."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"The possibility of recovering up-to-the-moment data is very useful."
"Data domain is a good feature."
"This solution is very stable."
"The response time of the tech support is swift. The support is fantastic."
"Dell EMC NetWorker integrates well with our domain and the performance is quite good on-premise. We receive approximately 1 terabyte within one hour."
"I think that the price could still be a bit cheaper and I do not like that they have been purchased by Arcserve."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"We are looking at scaling up to the cloud and using immutable copies on the cloud. Arcserve UDP 8.0 does have the immutable feature supporting AWS, but I'm looking for multi-cloud support. So, I'm waiting for Arcserve to release that in the next release."
"One of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"The solution can use a lot of bandwidth when the scheduling is not done, it should auto-schedule itself. For example, if there are 50 users connected in the network at 12 o'clock and the backup is not scheduled. At this time the network offices are going to have performance issues when it is doing a backup. Having a feature to auto-schedule a time when the network is not being used often would be beneficial."
"They need to be compatible with the cloud because EMC NetWorker cannot compete with other products at the moment. EMC focuses only on their own cloud and do not take into consideration other cloud vendors."
"We have faced problems with the initial configuration of the solution."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Dell NetWorker could improve the GUI to include rack recovery."
"Could have a better recovery system."
"It's complex in nature."
"Lacks a restore feature."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing and more integration with the other products in Dell EMC."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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