We compared Dell NetWorker and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Dell NetWorker is recognized for its intuitive graphical user interface, integration with Data Domain, and impressive speed. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Dell NetWorker needs improvements in reporting, integration, and documentation. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: Dell NetWorker received mixed reviews, with some customers expressing frustration about delayed responses and unresolved problems. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: Some users consider Dell NetWorker's setup to be effortless, but some said it was somewhat complex. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: Some reviewers consider Dell NetWorker to be expensive, while others find it to be reasonable and cheaper than other options with similar features. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Users have provided no feedback about Dell NetWorker’s ROI so far. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: Dell NetWorker is regarded as a reasonably priced, high-performing backup solution with a user-friendly GUI. At the same time, many users were dissatisfied with Dell’s support and asked for improvements in reporting and documentation. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"The software implementation takes about 30 minutes."
"The software is quite complicated and useful for large corporations using different information systems."
"The extensive information provided on tool properties has been very useful, specifically the information on databases"
"There are no problems in terms of stability."
"Dell NetWorker's valuable feature is its ability to configure the network for immutability, specifically for backups."
"Very user-friendly with a good interface."
"Technical support is good."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"This enables us to do quick granular file recovery as and when required but also to do whole-site relocation in the case of a total loss scenario."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"The fact that it works with Synology is a big valuable point. Also, that we can check the functionality of a backup so easily. Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product. We can save so much time with Nakivo and are very happy that we found it and loved to use it for our solutions."
"The interface is basic and very easy to use which is what we are looking for."
"Backups are working smoothly with Nakivo Backup."
"The product is easy to manage for any IT person who is new to backup, recovery, and replication."
"We have been able to set up a failover site that has replicas of our critical VMs."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"There are some limitations regarding scalability of the product."
"We would like support for tape space reclaim, using either the same or another pool."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"The interface could have a different appearance."
"The support is an area with concerns where improvements are required."
"The web console could be a lot better."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"The process for getting unused diskspace back from the data repository is slow."
"It'll help if they offered some automation and more usability for partners."
"What must be improved is the response time to technical support requests."
"UI could use some upgrades. The UI is basic, but functional."
"An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules."
"It is missing the file and folder backup; however, this product is meant for virtual machine backup and recovery, so that is really outside of the scope of the software."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto. See our Dell NetWorker vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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