We performed a comparison between Dell Data Protection Advisor 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."It has a lot of stock reports. I believe over 300 canned reports, which for the most part meet a lot of generic needs."
"It generates very detailed reports, which makes things easier when it comes to IT auditing."
"The reporting feature and the Dell's continuous improvement of the solution are the most valuable features. The solution not only supports Dell Power Products but also other products."
"This is a stable solution."
"The platform's most valuable features are data protection and retention."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. Deployment typically takes about one hour. You just need one person to handle the deployment process."
"I can increase the tool's licensing as per my requirement with no conditions applied."
"The deduplication is probably the most valuable feature of that requirement."
"The solution has minimized the recovery time objective, and the recovery point objective, the RTO and RPO. Most customers are looking for to minimize downtime. The solution has helped ensure this."
"The solution has a longer lifespan."
"It's a good product that can be integrated easily with the Data domain."
"Good scalability and virtual environment protection."
"Dell's technical support are quite helpful with straightforward issues."
"The solution is scalable."
"The GUI is the best feature. It's very good and easy to use."
"The possibility of recovering up-to-the-moment data is very useful."
"There is a steep learning curve to use the interface and to create new reports, this could be made easier. If the solution could provide more drag and drop functionality to build more advanced reports that would be very helpful."
"Dell Data Protection Advisor's feature for data domain protection needs enhancement."
"The solution requires more integration with our other solutions. I know that they have full integration with VMware because it is also from EMC. However, we have to have better integration with Microsoft and Nutanix as well."
"They should empower their customers with the ability to upgrade this solution as long as it's in the same major release."
"Customization of reports or creating new reports can be difficult. Users need to have a deep knowledge of SQL. 70-80% of customers can't seem to understand how to do it. They don't know how to address reporting. If Dell EMC could simplify it, it would benefit the end-user."
"It's a bit difficult for first-time users."
"We have encountered issues where we were unable to pull data from the database server. It should also improve the backward compatibility."
"The stability of the solution needs improvement for stand alone users."
"I would like to see encryption included in the next release to encrypt the data that we are backing up."
"The deduplication needs improvement and it could use better integration."
"The licensing rules are difficult to navigate and understand."
"The solution could be graphically better."
"There should be total integration of the replication and cloud logistic back up on cloud."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"Reporting templates could be easier to understand and more comprehensive."
"The UI needs some enhancement to be more user-friendly."
Dell Data Protection Advisor is ranked 26th in Backup and Recovery with 10 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Data Protection Advisor is rated 8.0, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell Data Protection Advisor writes "A Easy- to -Setup and Stable cloud-based Data management solution". 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". Dell Data Protection Advisor is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Rubrik and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud. See our Dell Data Protection Advisor vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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