Veritas NetBackup and NetApp AltaVault compete in the data backup and recovery space. Based on the comparison, NetApp AltaVault holds an upper hand due to its cloud integration and cost-effective pricing.
Features: Veritas NetBackup is praised for comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities, robust backup performance, and extensive feature set. NetApp AltaVault is valued for seamless cloud platform integration, data deduplication efficiency, and flexibility in hybrid environments. NetApp AltaVault's cloud integration gives it an advantage.
Room for Improvement: Users suggest Veritas NetBackup could benefit from more intuitive management tools, enhanced virtualization support, and better customer service experiences. For NetApp AltaVault, users call for improved on-premise capabilities, faster support response times, and more robust customer service.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas NetBackup's deployment is considered straightforward but could be optimized further with better customer service. NetApp AltaVault's deployment is noted for flexibility, particularly in hybrid environments, yet requires more robust customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Veritas NetBackup is often viewed as costly but justified by its extensive features and reliability. NetApp AltaVault is perceived as reasonably priced, especially due to cloud integration and storage efficiency. In terms of ROI, both deliver substantial returns, with NetApp AltaVault seen as more cost-effective due to lower setup costs.
It is suitable for our nature of business because data is very critical, and we cannot compromise on backup.
The support from Veritas NetBackup is very good.
The customer support is very poor.
The technical support from Veritas is rated an eight, as the local partners are good and support us.
I feel that if you can keep it at least two or three levels back or forward with backward compatibility available, it would help people use the old disk storage and get more storage space.
The size of the catalog was an issue, but it was more about outgrowing our own architecture than a problem with Veritas NetBackup itself.
In the last 10 years, I have never faced a single incident regarding stability with Veritas NetBackup.
Veritas NetBackup performs well in terms of stability.
Support tickets take too long to be solved and the quality of engineers they have for support has lately become lacking.
From security concerns regarding what I would improve about Veritas NetBackup, I think you need to look into this because we found only one encryption option available, which is not that very strong.
We would really appreciate if Veritas offers products by which we can secure our backups against these ransomware attacks.
I would rate pricing for Veritas NetBackup around six, as it is neither high nor low.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the appliance licensing is a bit tricky and a bit expensive, especially when I have to license the hardware and the software;
There are different integrations available with NetApp AltaVault, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and I want to understand how they impact data security policies in my case.
In my opinion, the main benefits Veritas NetBackup provides are that it is a unified platform where we can integrate all the requirements such as online backup, offline backup, and virtualization backup in one single platform, although my only concern is the licensing structure.
The measurable outcomes and feedback I have seen from my customers after deploying Veritas NetBackup include the peace of mind CIOs and the people dealing with business continuity receive due to the reliability that it provides to them; it really gives them a lot of comfort and they can sleep well.
Although we do not utilize its deduplication technology or cloud integration, we can trigger storage actions with NetBackup.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Veritas NetBackup | 1.9% |
| NetApp AltaVault | 0.5% |
| Other | 97.6% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 10 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 33 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 21 |
| Large Enterprise | 66 |
NetApp AltaVault is a cloud-integrated storage solution created to increase recovery capabilities and lower cost and risks. It is better than traditional backup and recovery solutions because they are considerably slower, more expensive, risky, and can be too complex for the comprehension of many users. NetApp AltaVault solves issues related to backup, archival, and restoration. Compared to on-premises solutions, this software claims to be up to 90% less expensive while solving multiple issues related to data storage in the cloud. AltaVault presents three solutions to its customers: backup and recovery, cold storage and archives, and disaster recovery.
1. NetApp’s backup and recovery solution works with Kerne-Based Virtual Machine, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere, creating a solution for mid-sized businesses as well as for bigger companies that want to protect their offices in different locations. The usable local cache capacities of this solution range from 32TB to 383TB, providing clients with enough storage for their important data while giving them the option to retrieve it if something goes amiss.
2. NetApp AltaVault can be configured in cold storage mode and used for data that is not often used. The solution is scalable, thus allowing minimal costs for operating with cold data and allowing fast access to it at the same time.
3. AltaVault offers disaster recovery for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Your data will be secured on the cloud, providing you with a secure backup if the need for disaster recovery arises.
NetApp AltaVault’s many valued features include:
The benefits of using NetApp AltaVault include:
A Pre-sales Manager at a computer software company says NetApp AltaVault has fair pricing with a good GUI and a straightforward setup.
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.
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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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