We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and NetApp SnapCenter 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."The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the native backup capabilities."
"All of the core features are valuable to us."
"The solution helped us use R2 RBO to back up frequently."
"You have the flexibility to encrypt your backups and choose the storage capacity you're comfortable paying for."
"I have no issues with the stability at all. So I don't necessarily care about the stability of the product. I look more at whether or not can I recover. And I haven't had a failed recovery yet. I've got no failed recoveries of all my years."
"I like that it's a stable solution and their support is good. I think Microsoft's commercial force is superior."
"You can select the tiering for your backup and manage your cost."
"This solution allows me to restore either the VM or the data, depending on what is needed."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"
"The most valuable feature is the RBAC, the Role-Based Access Control. In our managed service, we can have different layers of security."
"It allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"Being able to add everything in as resource groups is a valuable feature... Having all the SQL servers put into specific buckets, based on their year of release - 2008, 2012, 2014 - allows us to get almost immediate backups that are easily seen and reported on."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"The integration with the record database and integration with other applications will be good, especially with the database piece."
"We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails."
"While Azure Backup allows ingress data, the egress data is chargeable, which should be excluded."
"Azure Backup must include features similar to enterprise solutions."
"Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases."
"The Azure Backup support for on-premises service is limited."
"It can be further improved by continuously meeting its compliance requirements."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"I feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"The documentation could be a little bit better so that we could handle more of the troubleshooting ourselves, rather than having to go through support."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"The replication feature needs improvement in future releases."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. 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 NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our Azure Backup vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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