Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) are two leading data protection solutions. Veritas NetBackup seems to have the upper hand in extensive features and reliability, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) excels in integration and storage efficiency.
Features: Veritas NetBackup offers extensive backup and recovery options, broad platform support, and scalability. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) integrates backup, recovery, and replication with efficient storage use. Users value Veritas NetBackup's comprehensive feature set and Dell PowerProtect DP’s superior integration and efficiency.
Room for Improvement: Veritas NetBackup users indicate the product could benefit from simpler management and improved performance in specific use cases. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) users suggest enhancements in the reporting and analytics features and better scale-out capabilities.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas NetBackup is praised for its flexibility in deployment options but criticized for a complex setup process. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is noted for its straightforward deployment and comprehensive support.
Pricing and ROI: Veritas NetBackup’s setup cost is viewed as higher but justified by its robust capabilities, providing good ROI. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) offers a competitive pricing model and efficient data protection, resulting in a positive ROI due to cost efficiency and performance.
It is suitable for our nature of business because data is very critical, and we cannot compromise on backup.
Challenges exist in certain Linux-based cases.
On the one or two occasions where we needed to engage with Dell support, they've been most helpful.
The support from Veritas NetBackup is very good.
The product offers flexibility for scalability, making it user-friendly and adaptable to different performance requirements.
The size of the catalog was an issue, but it was more about outgrowing our own architecture than a problem with Veritas NetBackup itself.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is a stable solution because it's a mature product.
Veritas NetBackup performs well in terms of stability.
In the last 10 years, I have never faced a single incident regarding stability with Veritas NetBackup.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience.
One area of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) that can be improved is probably more integrations with third-party software, particularly third-party backup software.
We would really appreciate if Veritas offers products by which we can secure our backups against these ransomware attacks.
Veritas NetBackup needs improvement in terms of integration with the cloud.
Pricing is competitive with other software vendors.
The pricing of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is competitive compared to its peers in the market.
AI integration enhances backup operations by analyzing data and ensuring malware protection.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a scalable architecture, offering flexibility, so you can always scale the capacity to meet any increased demands.
Although we do not utilize its deduplication technology or cloud integration, we can trigger storage actions with NetBackup.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Veritas NetBackup | 2.7% |
| Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) | 0.7% |
| Other | 96.6% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 5 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 32 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 21 |
| Large Enterprise | 65 |
The PowerProtect DP series appliances is the integrated appliance solution from the Dell data protection appliances portfolio.
PowerProtect DP series appliance: Simple, efficient and agile data protection
The DP series is an all-in-one backup appliance that reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions and vendor relationships. The DP series simplifies deployment and management—while delivering powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, mid-size and enterprise organizations at a low cost-to-protect.
It is an integrated solution that offers complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration — plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery (DR) and long-term retention (LTR) to the cloud — all in a single appliance.
With the DP series, customers reduce their time-to-protect and become more agile with a solution that’s fast, protected more efficiently, can be recovered quickly and is reliable.
Simple to deploy, scale and manage
The DP series enables organizations to protect a broad ecosystem of applications quickly with a single system management console, consolidating workload protection, and eliminating infrastructure or data sprawl. The easy-to-use System Manager simplifies backups and automates daily tasks, including monitoring, management, reporting, analytics and search. The DP series delivers all-in-one data protection: protection storage and software, search and advanced monitoring and analytics, combined with cloud extensibility. It offers integration with VMware, SQL and Oracle management tools so that admins can use familiar UIs.
Powerful cloud, performance and efficiency
The DP series can scale to fit the needs of enterprises with the ability to protect up to 195 PB (logical) of data to the public, private or hybrid clouds with Cloud Tier, with no additional hardware.7 Plus, native Cloud DR with end-to-end orchestration allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from on-premises DP series environments to the public cloud with AWS, Azure, or VMware Cloud on AWS —3 clicks to failover and 2 clicks to failback.
The DP series provides support for modern applications like MongoDB and MySQL and is optimized for VMware. It provides fast, single-step recovery of individual files, dynamic policies for VMs as well as complete VMware images, which can be instantly accessed and migrated live from the DP series appliance back to the production environment (using vMotion) while still running, further simplifying and optimizing VM recovery. Plus, instantly access up to 64 VMs with up to 60,000 IOPS to meet the strictest SLAs.
Data protection search simplifies file-level-recovery (FLR) activities with an easy-to-use search interface. The DP series is also built on the industry-proven Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA), for encryption, fault detection, and healing.
Veritas NetBackup is an enterprise-grade backup and recovery software solution. NetBackup securely restores and backs up files, raw partitions, and directories on a server known as a media server. A server protected by NetBackup is referred to as a NetBackup client. During the backup process, the NetBackup client sends the data through the network to the NetBackup media server, which chooses the appropriate storage media as the backup point.
Veritas NetBackup is a trusted enterprise backup solution that integrates with many of today’s popular databases, such as Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Linux, Unix, and Microsoft operating systems. The solution is able to backup data to tape, disc, and public clouds and keeps the popular Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors safe and secure.
Veritas NetBackup Features
Reviews from Real Users
Mahdi B., Solution Architect and IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Processing, says, “Veritas integrates well with the cloud, all databases, all operating systems, all hardware, and all software. Veritas also has solid malware and ransomware protection features. From time to time, we face a new kind of attack, and Veritas has always proven to be the best protection solution for some of my customers. Our customers who have faced ransomware attacks were able to recover their data in less than one day without any stress. Veritas is ransomware resilient and because of its implementation, it is not dependent on the operating system to work. Most of the functions of the Veritas software are isolated from the operating system and it's not dependent on the operating systems involved. This is very important. When some of our operating systems are infected by a virus, Veritas still works perfectly and protects our data. This feature is very well implemented in Veritas NetBackup.”
A PeerSpot user who is a General Manager at a comms service provider relates, “Veritas enterprise has many agents who perform the backup, whether it is a consistent backup or recorded backup. The solution has everything from the snapshot to the multiple database agents.”
Mir-Ali, Infrastructure Manager - Oracle SCM at a financial services firm, shares, “It covers all kinds of different architectures. Plus, it's very user-friendly and it is very reliable. Reliability is the most important thing because once the backup is done, if it is successful, then we're sure that it was successful and we will be able to restore it.”
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