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We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Quest NetVault 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Backup vs. Quest NetVault Report (Updated: March 2024).
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"Setting up Azure Backup is straightforward and the total deployment time was about a month.""It is a stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution.""The best aspect of the solution is its backup functionality.""There is only one feature, and that is the backup.""We are happy with this product and have not found any issues while using it.""Azure Backup is very simple to use and user-friendly.""Azure Backup is good because it is entirely cloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe.""I like the product's restoration cases."

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"It has File and SQL backup, which is the main benefit for us.""Having the web-based interface is important to us because we can access it from any computer in the network, rather than having it installed and available for use only on a specific one.""The user interface is good.""Its dashboard is quite well done. When you log into the GUI, you can basically see everything you need to know. There is also the possibility to edit the view as you like, which is great.""The platform helps us with efficient QoreStor deduplication (DD) capabilities and configuration.""The interface is very user-friendly.""The solution allows us to block off our network and only give access to whatever we want.""If a job is pending, the solution communicates it to us through emails."

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Cons
"The compression ratio of the backup data should be improved.""Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases.""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.""To make it a ten, it should have the ability to extend the retention and to perform a copy of the data outside of the subscription - with no additional costs.""The solution is still in its infancy; it's not a mature product yet.""I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. They can improve the duration of such restore operations. In the next release, it would also be good if they could reduce the duration for transferring the data from their storage to the actual storage while creating a virtual machine. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate.""On-prem can be complex to set up but the cloud is simple.""I would like to see better integration with more products, and more services."

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"The stability of the solution is poor.""In the next version, I would like to see support for the MongoDB database. As it is now, there is no component that works with it and we cannot back the data up using NetVault.""The interface can be improved. It should be more clear what features are available and make them easy to find.""I would like to see the option of cloud-based management.""The initial setup is a little complex.""The storage capacity is very low.""The product’s SQL backup plugin needs improvement.""There are command-line limitations. There is not a very strong possibility to work with the command line. The commands that are there are not that powerful, and you need to be very good at scripting, for example, in PowerShell or in Bash in case it is running on Linux systems. You need to combine a lot of commands together, and still, you will not get a great output that is presentable to others. You cannot work with it as easily."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing of this solution is ok, but I'm expecting that the price will decrease in the future."
  • "The pricing of this solution is good, and it is one of the easiest things that you can sell Azure with."
  • "This is an expensive solution in the Bangladesh marketplace."
  • "We are paying about $100,000 USD per year, just for a couple of servers."
  • "The price is pretty good, maybe $30 for a machine, I can't complain."
  • "It is a bit costly initially, but it is well worth it in the long run, especially for fighting against a number of threats, such as ransomware, which the IT industry is facing."
  • "Price-wise, it's similar to AWS."
  • "The price is somewhat high and could be lower."
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  • "The price of our 12-month contract is approximately $1,500 AUD ($1,100 USD)."
  • "When we purchased four licenses, we were given a very good price. However, it is still on the high side when compared to some other vendors."
  • "The tool is expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Veeam… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Azure Backup for us are its flexible retention options and the ability to recover to a second region with geo-replication and read access.
    Top Answer:I would rate the pricing of Azure Backup around six or seven out of ten in terms of affordability, considering the total cost. The pricing depends on factors like storage choices and retention needs… more »
    Top Answer:NetVault is a great cloud-ready enterprise backup software for hybrid data centers. Here are some of the things I really like about the solution It is easy to use right out of the box and scales… more »
    Top Answer:If a job is pending, the solution communicates it to us through emails.
    Top Answer:The storage capacity is very low. The solution removes all the data in 15 days. We need the history for at least one or two months. I need the history whenever I run Tape. I need the details of the… more »
    Ranking
    7th
    out of 133 in Backup and Recovery
    Views
    13,533
    Comparisons
    10,791
    Reviews
    28
    Average Words per Review
    470
    Rating
    8.1
    45th
    out of 133 in Backup and Recovery
    Views
    1,879
    Comparisons
    1,190
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    339
    Rating
    7.7
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    NetVault Backup, Quest NetVault, Quest NetVault Backup, BakBone
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    Overview

    Azure Backup is a scalable backup solution with zero capital investment and minimal operational expenses that can help a company achieve maximal data protection. Azure Backup’s System Center Data Protection Manager provides optional integrations that can enable you to protect both advanced workloads running in your datacenter in VMs as well as those that are on physical servers.

    Azure Backup has many features that make it a most effective product. Included among these is its ability to easily scale up your storage capacity. It taps into the cloud to give you the ability to expand on a massive scale. This can be done without any monitoring or maintenance overhead.

    Benefits of Azure Backup

    Some of the benefits of using Azure Backup include:

    • The ability to control and track the performance of your network from a single centralized location. Azure Backup has a “single pane of glass” interface that enables users to monitor, operate, govern, and analyze their backups from one place. This eliminates any need to add additional management infrastructure. You can manage different workload types, subscriptions, vaults, and regions with Azure’s Backup Center.

    • A wide array of security features allows you to prevent malicious users from doing damage to the system, receive alerts if an unauthorized action takes place, and recover from any damage that results. Azure Backup has authentication requirements built in to protect vital functions, such as the ability to delete backed up data from unauthorized users. If something that impacts the backed up data takes place, users are immediately notified. Azure Backup saves any and all deleted backup data for two weeks. This enables administrators to use recovery points to recover their lost data.

    Reviews from Real Users

    There are a number of characteristics that make Azure Backup extremely effective. Two of these are the flexibility that it offers users and its overall effectiveness.

    PeerSpot user Ayman Y., an IT manager at NOMAC, notes all of the different backup options that Azure Backup offers. He writes, “It has many features. First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client as you like. You can do a backup from the whole virtual machine as an image. You can do a backup only from files and folders. It has every option. All options are available for the backup, for the restore, for the bandwidth utilization to do backups, even virtual machines or a physical machine. If you need to do a backup of the whole image from the virtual machine, all these options are there.”

    PeerSpot user Muzammil M., a senior operations engineer at the AlGosaibi Group, notes the effectiveness of Azure Backup when he writes, “Azure Backup is good because it is entirelycloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe. This is the reason that I suggest its use for companies that need to back up critical data.”

    Cloud-ready data recovery software for the hybrid data center. Protect your applications and data on-premises and in the cloud — from one intuitive console — with this scalable data backup and recovery software. NetVault® by Quest supports multiple server and application platforms in both physical and virtual environments. That means you can ensure continuous availability of your business-critical systems, applications and data.

    Sample Customers
    Russell Reynolds Associates, Somerset County Council, Kardem, PCL Construction
    intel, Mars, MERK, Microsoft, Uber, Visa
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Construction Company14%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government8%
    Real Estate/Law Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise37%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise56%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business45%
    Large Enterprise55%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise49%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Backup vs. Quest NetVault
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Backup vs. Quest NetVault and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Quest NetVault is ranked 45th in Backup and Recovery with 10 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Quest NetVault is rated 7.2. 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 Quest NetVault writes "Easy to use, stable, affordable pricing model, and good technical support". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Quest NetVault is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Quest Rapid Recovery, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Acronis Cyber Protect. See our Azure Backup vs. Quest NetVault report.

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