We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Backup slightly nudges out Veritas NetBackup in this comparison. Azure Backup is a more straightforward solution to learn, use, and manage, and provides some impressive next-gen cloud capabilities. Veritas is very complex to learn and manage. Additionally, it is lacking in some basic cloud functionalities, which makes the solution seem a bit dated.
"All of the core features are valuable to us."
"The hardware is always updated and it's saved us a lot of money."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the native backup capabilities."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"With Azure Backup, you can readily make your environment if your setup somehow fails on the cloud or on-premises."
"The product is very reliable and easy to use."
"The scalability has been good."
"It's stable."
"I like the cross-platform features."
"Its most valuable features are flexibility and reliability."
"It is a good solution. It covers most of the applications."
"This is the best solution that I know of."
"The backup and restoration are 100 percent guaranteed."
"The documentation is good."
"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."
"It's durable — we achieve what we expect from it."
"I can’t use the solution to restore another native cloud solution. Azure must add this new feature."
"It still does not have a lot of customization, especially if your workloads are not in Azure."
"The compression ratio of the backup data should be improved."
"The product must improve on a database level."
"They need to improve the frequency of the backup. You can only backup one to three times a day. It would be better to back up continuously throughout the day."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"The tool's backup should be faster. Azure Backup's support should be faster."
"The solution is quite technical. I wouldn't describe it as user friendly. It could be simplified a lot to make it more accessible to the average user."
"There may be a learning curve."
"It gets a lot of new features, but improvements in basic functionality are often sacrificed for a shiny new bullet point to put on sales presentations."
"The security and performance could improve with Veritas NetBackup. The security could be improved by protecting the data from attackers."
"The product could improve the user-friendliness and comfort of its environment, especially for those unfamiliar with it."
"In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process."
"We would like the Java console to be updated."
"I would like to have support enabled for cloud backups."
"Veritas NetBackup has been in the backup and recovery market for quite a long time, but somehow, from my own observations and from feedback from end users, its user interface is lagging behind other comparable solutions such as Veeam."
Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Dell NetWorker. See our Azure Backup vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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