Veritas CloudPoint simplifies cloud data protection and management with a scalable framework, catering to enterprises seeking efficient data security and compliance. Its integration capabilities enhance data lifecycle management.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Veritas CloudPoint | 0.6% |
| Veeam Data Platform | 6.9% |
| Commvault Cloud | 4.8% |
| Other | 87.7% |
Veritas CloudPoint offers a comprehensive platform for managing and protecting data across cloud environments. It supports multiple cloud providers and delivers a unified interface for consistent data governance. Automated snapshot management, backup operations, and disaster recovery are seamlessly handled, ensuring your data is secure and accessible. Its policy-driven approach and deep integration with cloud services make it a reliable choice for enterprise cloud environments. The scalability of Veritas CloudPoint allows businesses to adapt to changing data protection needs, facilitating efficient operations.
What are the key features of Veritas CloudPoint?In industries like finance and healthcare, Veritas CloudPoint's secure data management is crucial. It supports regulatory compliance and ensures data integrity, making it a trusted tool for companies handling sensitive information. Its ability to manage complex data environments is beneficial for large-scale enterprises.
Veritas CloudPoint was previously known as CloudPoint.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
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| Operations Director, Information Technology at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 5.0 | We use Veritas CloudPoint for backing up virtual machines in Azure without needing a new learning curve, which is its most valuable feature. The pricing model and lack of AI integration need improvement, and I haven't seen a return on investment yet. |
| Solutions Architect at AspireNXT | 3.5 | I use this solution for cloud backups, finding it good for volume-level backups and relatively easy to set up after initial learning. However, it needs improved file-level backups and simpler integration. Despite some concerns, I rate it an 8/10 and would recommend it with prerequisite knowledge. |
| Director at Trace3 | 4.5 | I find Veritas CloudPoint excellent for EC2 and RDS backups, valuing its indexing, file-level restore, and replication. While its stability is good and setup straightforward, I wish for improved reporting and better integration with NetBackup and Oracle RMAN. |
Our use case for Veritas CloudPoint is that it was implemented so our on-premises staff could continue to have the same look and feel as they started to back up virtual machines that were being built in Azure.
We leverage it strictly for backup and recovery, and we don't use it for any cyber event recovery or anything similar, strictly server backups.
The most valuable feature we've found with Veritas CloudPoint so far is the lack of a learning curve because the team was already familiar with all of the consoles and how to build policies. As they started to use it in Azure, they were able to continue doing things as they were used to doing them rather than having to learn a new tool.
The efficiency gain we've experienced is that we were able to start deploying backup policies to Azure without having to learn a new tool, even though there are arguments about overhead and granularity if one uses native Azure backup tools compared to Veritas CloudPoint.
I don't care for the pricing or capacity license model from Veritas CloudPoint because there are cases where we back up the same data multiple times, yet we still owe from a capacity standpoint based on how much data is managed in our backups.
Veritas CloudPoint does not currently utilize artificial intelligence for the backup or help with any AI initiatives.
My experience with Veritas CloudPoint spans the entire time that I've been here, which is 15 years.
My thoughts on the support for Veritas CloudPoint are that it's fairly decent. Usually, if we have an issue, we can open up a case and have an answer within a day or two.
I would rate Veritas CloudPoint support an eight on a scale of one to ten because there have been times when we couldn't access the portal, delaying our answers, but overall they're pretty good about it.
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I am familiar with the initial setup of Veritas CloudPoint, but I don't personally set that up as the people who report to me handle it.
They had the setup completed in an afternoon, so I would say it's straightforward.
The deployment involved a small team. I have one person that primarily architects it, but there are three or four people that know and understand how to use Veritas CloudPoint.
So far, I don't see any return on investments since implementing Veritas CloudPoint.
We work in a cloud environment in the health insurance industry as a medium-sized business.
We're pretty happy with Veritas CloudPoint in terms of how we've used it on-premises over the years. Although we haven't really leveraged some cyber event recovery tools available in the new version yet, I think it's more about Cohesity or Veritas reaching out to customers to help them understand what tools are available to them.
I would recommend Veritas CloudPoint to others because if you have limited teams, it's a huge benefit to bring in a tool that allows you to start backing up your cloud environment without the need for extensive training on a new tool.
I would rate Veritas CloudPoint a ten because it's done everything it says it'll do, and we've really not had many problems with it.
We primarily use the solution for cloud backups and to have the flexibility to move what we have around as needed (for example, to secondary sites).
There aren't too many features, however, I haven't worked with it too much to really get into details about features and offerings.
The initial setup is very easy and quite straightforward.
The product is good for volume-level backups.
The product needs to improve its file-level or granular-level backups. Currently, there might be availablity in terms of granular-level recovery, however, it's not true for the granular-level backups.
The integration part should be a little bit simpler.
Currently, they're saying that for each region, a single CloudPoint should be required. However, they need to increase their strength in maintaining those CloudPoint servers in order to handle the entire cloud account. Maybe a single CloudPoint should be able to handle multiple instances and regions.
I haven't worked with the solution that much.
I've only used the solution for about two months and that was only for two instances, two separate clients.
I can't speak to the stability. I've only used it for six months. that said, I haven't had any issues.
I can't speak to the scalability. I have too little experience with the solution. I need more time with it.
I'm neutral on technical support. I would rate them at a seven out of ten. There's nothing that makes them outstanding, however, they aren't bad either.
We also work with Commvault and Nutanix.
The initial setup is easy if you have some comfort with the product. The first time I integrated the solution, initially, it took almost 10 days to find out those details and how to handle a proper integration. However, after the second deployment, it only took me one day. As long as you have the proper prerequisites, you shouldn't have any issue with the process.
The solution isn't really expensive. Currently, they are integrated with NetBackup. There is no separate pricing for CloudPoint now. It comes as a part of the other solution.
We sell Veritas to some of our clients.
There are some differences between Veritas NetBackup and Veritas CloudPoint. In CloudPoint, for example, now they're integrated with NetBackup itself. That is in the 9.1 version. There is not much difference in that. With NetBackup, I can take a VM-level backup and file-level backup. Similarly, in CloudPoint, you can take a volume-level backup. Currently, there is no file-level backup, or something similar, in the cloud, although I'm not sure about that. In NetBackup, you can have granularity, whereas, in CloudPoint, you can take volume-level backup, or the virtual machine, or the instance-level backup.
I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've mostly been happy with the product's capabilities.
I would recommend the solution, however, those that take it on should have some knowledge of the solution and understand the prerequisites. It will make it easier to implement. Make sure to go over documentation or seek out information instead of going in blind.
The primary use case of this solution is for backing up EC2 instances and RDS instances.
The most valuable features are the indexing, the file-level restore, and the replications between regions.
Also, the ability to integrate it with the information management studio, and the backups for RDS backups and MSQL, and helpful.
They are niche with the work that they do, but they should have more integration with NetBackup and the reporting is something they should be working towards improving. They have very minimal reporting.
It would be nice to have integration with Oracle RMAN.
I have been using Veritas CloudPoint for a couple of years.
It's pretty stable, I have not experienced many issues with stability.
Scalability is not really an issue, as it doesn't store any data on it. It's going to orchestrate the account snapshots.
I would rate technical support an eight out of ten.
Previously, we were using N2WS, which is okay, it's not a bad product. We switched because of the ease of integration of Veritas CluodPoint with other Vertias products.
The initial setup is very straightforward.
When comparing to other solutions, the price is at par.
Make sure that they test the encryption.
If they want to replicate the EBS volumes between two regions, then they should understand the encryption if they want to encrypt the replicated volumes.
I would rate Veritas CloudPoint a nine out of ten.
