We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Veritas NetBackup 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."We don't need to manage different devices."
"The product is integrated with Huawei software and its backup and recovery time is very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."
"The solution is strong."
"What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance."
"Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"I like the cross-platform features."
"Veritas NetBackup has significantly streamlined our backup and recovery processes by providing a single pane of view across various environments."
"Veritas NetBackup provides good backup performance, and I can mount the snapshot without an installer."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't need any special connectivity - you just need to give your seller name, and then it automatically discovers all your virtual machines, which is a great benefit, especially in a bigger environment."
"We can easily expand the ability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"The backup and restore features are helpful."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised."
"We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs."
"The solution should be easier to use."
"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."
"There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity."
"The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"Managing the product is a little bit complicated."
"The pricing could be improved, and the interface could be more intuitive."
"The only pain point we have with this solution is the cost. It's very expensive. In fact, it's so expensive we are looking for other platforms. We want to move away from it in order to save our organization costs."
"It would be better if it had a cloud integration feature. I would like to use a single product for the cloud instances and the on-premise instances. The price could also be better."
"The product must enable data migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"The solution must provide a different way to schedule backups."
"It would be helpful, in future releases, if the solution could add WORM (Write Once Read Many) support right within the product."
"It is a very expensive solution. They should have a different scheme for selling it. They should also make it easy for us to switch from Solaris to Linux. We are having some trouble in migrating our actual catalog from Solaris to Linux."
"In terms of improvement, it's very difficult to make it work with multiple business units. Its security model is too constricted."
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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