We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Oracle Data Guard 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."Dell's technical support are quite helpful with straightforward issues."
"Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly."
"The extensive information provided on tool properties has been very useful, specifically the information on databases"
"The GUI is the best feature. It's very good and easy to use."
"It is an extremely stable product."
"The solution has a longer lifespan."
"When it was required that data had to be restored for our customer, it was accomplished successfully and this has kept our end users satisfied."
"NetWorker is fast and reliable."
"The solution has been stable so far."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes."
"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any bugs, glitches, or crashes. We find it to be quite reliable."
"We have found the replication feature the most useful. We use this feature the most. The ability to recover a database with less effort and the use of Oracle Data Guard Broker to administer the complete environment are also very useful features."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."
"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."
"We would like support for tape space reclaim, using either the same or another pool."
"It's complex in nature."
"The web console could be a lot better."
"I would like to see the user interface improved, more documentation, faster support, and it could be easier to configure."
"The implementation process could be improved."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"Support is definitely an area of concern because of the time it takes to resolve our issues."
"There are too many reboots and the software requires constant updating."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high. They should do what they can to bring it down so that it is more reasonable for customers like us."
"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."
"The IP implementation and maintenance are a little bit hard to manage across Oracle solutions, including Oracle Data Guard."
"Oracle could be improved by the ability to manage it on the cloud. This on-premises version is secure and reliable, but I'm sure that they will soon provide a cloud solution that will be even better. In one to two years, we will probably move to the cloud—we have already moved to the cloud with Microsoft Exchange, but our databases are still on-premises. I would prefer managing a cloud version of Oracle."
"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."
"The deployment cost is expensive."
"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."
"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. 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 Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and IBM Spectrum Protect. See our Dell NetWorker vs. Oracle Data Guard report.
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