Dell NetWorker and NetApp Cloud Backup are two competitive products in the data backup and recovery market. Users often prefer NetApp Cloud Backup due to its advanced features and higher user satisfaction even at a higher price.
Features: Dell NetWorker users value robust security, comprehensive support, and flexible integration capabilities. NetApp Cloud Backup is praised for scalability, cloud-native features, and seamless cloud environment integration.
Room for Improvement: Dell NetWorker could improve by simplifying management processes, providing enhanced cloud support, and offering more straightforward configuration options. NetApp Cloud Backup users suggest better pricing models, simplifying configuration processes, and improving initial setup guidance. The contrast lies in Dell's need for better cloud support versus NetApp's demand for pricing and configuration adjustments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell NetWorker's deployment is flexible but can be complex; customer service is reliable but sometimes slow. NetApp Cloud Backup is quick to deploy in cloud environments, with responsive customer support, offering faster cloud deployment and more responsive support.
Pricing and ROI: Dell NetWorker is generally viewed as cost-effective with a good return on investment. NetApp Cloud Backup, though more expensive, justifies the cost with advanced features and higher scalability, leading to long-term ROI benefits. This highlights the cost-effectiveness of Dell versus the feature-rich, higher ROI of NetApp.
quick responses whenever we log a complaint
Technical support from Dell is excellent.
They are very responsive and helpful.
While the solution is scalable, the cost involved in upgrading or enhancing the solution can be significant.
Dell NetWorker is very scalable and flexible, deserving a high rating for its scalability.
It is scalable enough for our environment.
The stability of Dell NetWorker is excellent.
Dell NetWorker is stable.
The interface on the Java application makes it difficult, whereas the web interface is simple to use.
To connect to a server, it's necessary to install a client on the server, which is challenging.
It is complex, and compared to solutions like Tivoli, Veritas, Veeam, and others, its look and feel are not up to par.
The licensing cost is somewhat expensive.
Dell NetWorker is versatile, allowing server backups and IBM tape library backups.
The new deduplication feature helps significantly with data compression and saves disk space by using pointers for repeated data, improving backup speed.
I find NetWorker valuable for its wide range of automation features, including replication and data processing systems.
Built on a reputation of efficiency and reliability, thousands of customers trust Dell NetWorker to protect their data and applications across multiple environments, from core to edge to cloud.
Inherently flexible, NetWorker helps you deploy and leverage the data protection that fits your needs. NetWorker protects both physical and virtual environments, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as cloud workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
NetWorker is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. NetWorker is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.
NetApp Cloud Backup is a fully integrated service for cloud backup and restoration. It was created to comply fully with NetApp's native data management software ONTAP, used for hybrid cloud experience. NetApp Cloud Backup is used to create backup and restoration for the protection and archiving of data, databases, and virtual machines related to the Cloud and On-Premises data in ONTAP. The way NetApp Cloud Backup works is by automatically creating block-level incremental backups. This ensures that the created backups are very fast and easy to restore. It is suitable for data protection regarding on-premises software as well as in the public cloud. NetApp Cloud Backup provides users with the ability to protect their cloud data at affordable prices and with a user-friendly interface so they don't need a lot of technical knowledge to be able to secure their cloud storage.
The copies created by NetApp Cloud Backup can be stored in the user's personal object storage in the cloud as well as on premises with StorageGRID - NetApp's storage platform. The backup copies can be restored to the original source or to a different source in Cloud Volumes ONTAP. NetApp Cloud Backup provides backups to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
The features NetApp Cloud Backup provides include:
In addition to enhanced security and protection from malicious attacks, the advantages of using NetApp Cloud Backup include:
Abbasi P., a User at a financial services firm, likes that NetApp Cloud Backup is a completely agentless solution.
A Service Manager at a tech services company values its stability, scalability, and good technical support.
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