We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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 product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."
"The solution adequately handles data storage."
"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"Dell PowerProtect Data Manager helps to reduce the amount of data being transferred and stored."
"The deduplication is the most valuable feature because it helps to control the overhead."
"I would say flexibility is the most important feature of the product. The performance and speed are the best on the market."
"We find the pricing is reasonable."
"The intelligent policies feature is used in order to protect the VMware infrastructure. One of the things that makes a big difference for our company is the usage of these intelligence policies. The system automatically provides extra protection for any VMware server application or service. From a backup administrator's point of view, this is what we call peace of mind. It reduces the workload and therefore reduces resources needed from the company."
"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a total backup solution. We don't have to buy other applications to do it."
"The reporting is very good compared to other tools."
"The most valuable feature of the Veritas NetBackup Appliance is the virtual machine backups."
"It is very capable of scaling and very good for heterogeneous environments."
"The tool's most valuable feature is recovery."
"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."
"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."
"As a new product, there are some things that still need to improve a bit as it matures."
"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."
"There is always room for improvement. The compression ratio should be improved as well as the efficiency."
"The Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager reports could improve. There should be different kinds of reports on failures, such as dashboards that we can submit to top management or auditors."
"The interface is too complex."
"Management is difficult and it is hard to determine when things aren't working properly."
"The price needs to be improved because it is really expensive."
"They could improve the interface a bit."
"We had some problems with the backup of the physical server."
"The product should provide more AI and ML features."
"The monitoring could be a bit better."
"It could be better integrated with other platforms."
"The upgrade process of the solution needs to be improved since it is extremely complicated, especially without the benefit of a support person who can guide one through it."
"The installation is cumbersome."
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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is rated 7.4, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect Data Manager writes "A tool that offers good capacity management and product management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is most compared with Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. See our Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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