Carbonite Server vs Dell NetWorker comparison

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."

"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."

"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly."

"The initial setup is simple."

"Dell NetWorker allows for extensive customization, supporting various open-source databases like PostgreSQL."

"Simple, stable and straightforward."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its ability to recover the data."

"Very user-friendly with a good interface."

"Dell NetWorker is easy to install, configure, and operate."

"I feel that it is a good product."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."

"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."

"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."

"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."

"The security features need backup and encryption. It would be nice if they added this feature. I would also like to be able to decrypt when restoring the security features. Hackers can sense these vulnerabilities today, and we need to have our enterprise prepared."

"Its console UI should be better. It should also have more out-of-the-box reporting functionalities. It should also have easier cloud integration. They have got cloud boost and things like that, but if you want to directly back up to the cloud, I'm not too sure whether you can do it. For example, you can easily send data from Commvault to AWS, Azure, or a container, but it seems to be not so easy in NetWorker."

"Currently, the NetWorker server only supports the Windows server bare-metal recovery, so an improvement would be built-in support for Linux and UNIX BMR."

"I would like to see encryption included in the next release to encrypt the data that we are backing up."

"Ports are not visible to the network, which requires a dedicated physical server."

"Support is definitely an area of concern because of the time it takes to resolve our issues."

"There are some limitations regarding scalability of the product."

"There are too many reboots and the software requires constant updating."

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"The solution is open source."

"Its price is reasonable."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

"The solution follows a subscription model for licensing. We pay annually to use the solution and the price is high."

"The licensing model can be traditional licensing or capacity-based licensing."

"We use a license without a time term. We just need to buy additional support when needed."

"Pricing is cheaper for this product, compared to its competitors."

"It is excellent from the pricing point of view. It is free with Data Protection Suite. Similarly, when you purchase Avamar, Dell EMC NetWorker is free with one terabyte license capacity. Its price is very competitive."

"Dell NetWorker is an expensive solution. None of the backup products are cheap. The licensing model offered is usually a five-year one."

"The price of the solution could be lower, it is expensive."

"Dell NetWorker has two types of licensing models."