We performed a comparison between Actifio 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."Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"The solution helps reduce costs."
"The main features of this solution are deduplication, compression, ease of use, simplistic user interface, and compatibility with all the backup service systems."
"The solution is stable."
"Specific features that I could not do without are SLPs for replication and duplication control and AIR which makes DR easy."
"The deduplication feature is useful. Deduplication and compression features are what I like about NetBackup."
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"What I like most is it is a professional product. It supports all kinds of technologies, and I consider it one of the best backup products available."
"Veritas released a new feature in version 8 of NetBackup called VRP. It's kind of like replication management from VMware. The great thing about this feature is that Veritas gave it to us for free."
"The most valuable feature is its stability."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"Google has stopped supporting the on-premise version of the tool."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"GUI needs to be more user-friendly."
"We are facing a challenge regarding the support for Docker and Kubernetes features. We hope for the possibility of directly backing up Kubernetes and Docker images without the necessity of taking full virtual machine backups."
"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."
"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."
"NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly."
"The backup operation interface is not as mature as those of Veritas's competitors and has room for improvement."
"We would like the Java console to be updated."
"The pricing could be improved, and the interface could be more intuitive."
Actifio is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and NetApp Cloud Backup, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Actifio vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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