Compare Nakivo vs. Unitrends
Nakivo is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery Software with 8 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 38th in Backup and Recovery Software with 5 reviews. Nakivo is rated 8.8, while Unitrends is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Nakivo writes "The quick and easy setup of the ready-made virtual appliance made it simple to deploy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "Reliable solution that offers great predictive analytics and reporting". Nakivo is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Altaro VM Backup and Rubrik, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik and Cohesity. See our Nakivo vs. Unitrends report.
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The most important feature is that everything can be controlled using a single console. It provides us a good holistic view of everything that we have backed up so far. It also provides us all the recovery points. If we look at an an object that has been backed up, we can tell how many retention copies it has, how far we can go, and recover any data, if needed. The solution's interface is easy to use. For manageability, it doesn't matter where the resource is coming from or going to. That's the great power of the Control Panel: It's easy to use and does not matter if you manage on-prem or cloud resources. I'm a big fan of the reporting. You can build your own reports; it's very customizable. You can have individual reports going to groups of people or individuals. You can have them go out multiple times a day. It's basically a free-for-all as far as reporting goes. If anybody wants a specific job report every day, you can build it, schedule it, and have it go out and never touched it again. It's pretty nice. The solution provides us with a single platform to move, manage, and recover our data across on-premise locations. Some of the guys have been using it to move a virtual machine from VMware to the Microsoft solution, Hyper-V. They back it up and then they restore to the different virtual machine provider, and that works great. The multi-tenancy is the most valuable feature for us because it's the only software that is fully multi-tenant and that has all the features we need to provide to all our tenants. It provides us with advanced features for MySQL and Oracle, among other platforms The most valuable feature is sharing data sets like they're in a private cloud. We call it our "private cloud" because we can share anything that is inside our backup set with our colleagues or with other people, and yet, everything is still in Belgrade, in Serbia. It's not somewhere else on cloud servers. Everything is in our environment. We are using a KVM system in our cloud, and this solution works very well with it. | It is fast, simple, powerful, and has a price without competition. Nakivo gives users confidence in knowing that if something happens with their application server, exchange server, or other applications, they can recover it easily and quickly. Perfect for someone who doesn't want to waste time. We spend less time to get data recovered. Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy. This solution was surprisingly easy to configure. | The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome. It is fairly stable. If you are a large organization, this is a product for you. Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration. Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance). |
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I would like them not to push Command Center. It is good, but I would like them to enable all the features for the Java console. Some things are not in the Java console, like Office 365 agents. In fact, they are there, but one of the engineers had to show me how to configure it. It's not done the same as in the Command Center. It does not have an easy deployment. The deployment is not something that just anybody can go in and deploy. The solution's breadth and depth of cloud support are good, but could be better. Some cloud features that are common-sense, especially on AWS, are not completely integrated yet in the product. They are a work-in-progress. Command Center definitely gives us a complete view of our data. But finding some of the granular, very small items that we sometimes have to find, such as auxiliary copies for tapes, I still find that it's easier to navigate and, sometimes, only possible to find them using the CommCell tool. Just to keep it running is time-consuming. There are five people on my team. Commvault was supposed to be one of the less time-consuming solutions, but in reality it takes 60 percent of our time just to keep it running, and that's not even fine-tuning it; that's just to keep it running. There is room for improvement in its user interface and web console, called Command Center. They are improving it every year so if they continue in that direction, I think it will be a very reliable console. They can always improve the interface design to make it easier. Sometimes, you need to click two or three times to do something. They should look at what tabs are used most and make them more accessible, to cut the time it takes to get to that information. This solution can be complex and difficult to administer because it supports all of the many platforms, so it would help if they could simplify it. | I would like to have the option of creating a subfolder per job in the backup repository because we had an issue where some files were corrupted and we lost the backup of the majority of the VMs. We want the backup job to consume fewer resources, as the utilization is very high if we choose the best compression. 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. An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines. I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS, but in other cloud systems. 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. | If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great. There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data. The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release. No appliance update notifications. |
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Commvault licensing is a perpetual license so only the support is being renewed yearly. There is a bit of cost involved with signing up the entire solution. It's not a cheap solution. Our cost is around $20,000 per month. The previous year, it was around $30,000 per month. It now costs less because Commvault changed the licensing type for providers. Our yearly cost is around €20,000... The cost is based on the number of users and the amount of data. They sell it per terabyte. The price could perhaps be lower as well. In my experience, compared to solutions like Veritas and Veeam, while they do have their technical pluses and minuses, Commvault can save you on average forty percent initially, and then twenty to twenty-five percent annually. Compared to other competitors and vendors the pricing is fair. | I advise that this is the best product for medium or small environments according to my cost-benefit analysis. Pricing is easy to understand and very affordable. It's really cheap, and our company saves a significant amount of money on IT backup solutions per year. The price is not a problem in NAKIVO, as it is the most competitive in the market. It has a much higher bang for the buck than other products we evaluated. | No comment. You should be aware how much the monthly costs are to use, what the initial costs for hardware are, and what the options to expand are, if needed. Pricing model constantly changes. |
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Commvault can help you transform your data into a powerful strategic asset, with data protection and information management solutions that enable you to protect, access and use all of your data anywhere and anytime. | NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides image-based, application-aware, and forever-incremental backup for VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2 VMs. This means that NAKIVO Backup & Replication can capture all VM data, ensure the consistency of applications and databases (such as Exchange, Active Directory, MS SQL, SharePoint) running in VMs, and transfer only changes to the backup repository. NAKIVO Backup & Replication uses native change tracking
| Unitrends increases uptime, productivity and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. The result is a “one throat to choke” set of offerings that allow our customers to focus on their business rather than backup. |
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| Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, Alliant Credit Union, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company | Coca Cola, Honda, 3M, University of Arizona, University of Maryland, University of Arkansas, Johns Hopkins University, Marriott, United States Military Academy West Point, Greenpeace, China Airlines, Radisson Hotels and Resorts, Fujifilm | NHL Players Association, Salvation Army, Sligro Food Group, Mason General Hospital, Tec Group, Saldab IT, Baker Tilly, Clinton Savings Bank, Ennit Magna Bank, Manukau Institute of Technology |
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Comms Service Provider15% Government15% Wholesaler/Distributor15% Energy/Utilities Company8% Software R&D Company40% Comms Service Provider12% Government7% Media Company7% | Comms Service Provider33% Software R&D Company24% Manufacturing Company8% Media Company8% | Non Tech Company20% Energy/Utilities Company7% Construction Company7% Marketing Services Firm7% Software R&D Company23% Comms Service Provider22% Government14% Construction Company11% |
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Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise33% Large Enterprise37% Small Business7% Midsize Enterprise17% Large Enterprise76% | Small Business57% Midsize Enterprise29% Large Enterprise14% | Small Business33% Midsize Enterprise33% Large Enterprise33% |
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