We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Unitrends 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."Good scalability and virtual environment protection."
"The possibility of recovering up-to-the-moment data is very useful."
"The most valuable features for us at the moment are NFS, file system backup, and IP backup."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"It's easy to use."
"I started off as a storage engineer and ended up owning Dell EMC Data Domain and Dell EMC NetWorker. I've not used any other backup solutions at this scale. Dell EMC NetWorker does what I need it to do, it's efficient."
"There are no problems in terms of stability."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback"
"The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof."
"It is fairly stable."
"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"The stability of the NMC could use some attention, as it tends to be a bit shaky during jobs and other operations."
"NetWorker sometimes has issues with the backup not starting and with connecting to the Oracle servers."
"The user interface has to be improved"
"he API side of the solution has certain shortcomings."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"The software also isn't user-friendly like Convault or Rubrik. The solution errors and management aren't so good in comparison."
"The product should provide integration with AWS."
"Currently, the NetWorker server only supports the Windows server bare-metal recovery, so an improvement would be built-in support for Linux and UNIX BMR."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 44th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP. See our Dell NetWorker vs. Unitrends report.
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