Veritas NetBackup Appliance vs Zerto comparison

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Zerto are competing solutions for data protection and disaster recovery. Zerto is viewed as slightly more advanced in disaster recovery functionalities, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is favored for its pricing and support.

Features: Veritas NetBackup Appliance offers extensive integration capabilities, reliability in data protection, and a comprehensive feature set. Zerto is known for rapid recovery times, seamless replication, and superior disaster recovery capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Veritas NetBackup Appliance users seek better reporting tools, more intuitive management capabilities, and improvements in the user experience. Zerto users suggest enhancements in analytics, more interface customization, and an improved user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas NetBackup Appliance has a straightforward deployment process and effective customer support but can be time-consuming for initial setup. Zerto provides quick and easy deployment with strong customer service but may require more advanced knowledge for optimal setup.

Pricing and ROI: Veritas NetBackup Appliance is considered cost-effective with good ROI due to predictable pricing and comprehensive support. Zerto, while more expensive, delivers better ROI because of its advanced features and efficiency in disaster recovery.

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Veritas NetBackup Appliance vs. Zerto

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Categories and Ranking

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (6th)

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

282

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Veritas NetBackup Appliance is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 2.7%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery

Featured Reviews

RifkanHasan

Group Assistant, General Manager of IT at CIC

Jul 31, 2024

A Flexible, scalable and high performance solution to protect data from edge to core to cloud

The appliance is mainly for our servers and file servers, and it’s very user-friendly and secure The Veritas NetBackup Appliance is convenient because it’s a portable device and doesn’t require a lot of additional hardware or licenses like VPN solutions. We haven’t activated all the features…

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Girish Agarwal

Security Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2023

Easy to use, quick to understand, and simple to set up

It's easy to use. It wasn't too difficult to start with. With most vendors, initially, you have a learning curve or configurations. In this case, Zerto was quick to understand. The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple. The experience is comparatively good with Zerto. The near-synchronous replication has not been used much. That said, it does help when talking about storage layers. The availability of the VMs is good. In terms of resiliency, there are a lot of benefits to it. Most have a recovery of 24 to 48 hours; Zerto has gotten recovery down to four hours. We've done a POC with a DR to AWS. It was limited, however, it worked well and there was support. We didn't run into any challenges. The effect on the RPOs has been excellent. It's been impacted greatly. Customers enjoy the shorter timeline to recovery. The customer confidence is high.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Technical support has been great."

"The most valuable feature of Veritas NetBackup Appliance is duplication and covers many applications."

"It is easy to use and the performance is good."

"The product enables me to recover the information of the appliances in the organization."

"The utilization of Data Domain is crucial because of its integration with a key Veritas feature: retention lock. This feature ensures data integrity by preventing any alterations to stored data. When NetBackup interacts with Data Domain, enabling the retention lock feature ensures that neither administrators nor backup personnel can modify data stored within the system. This functionality is vital for compliance purposes and meets the requirements of auditors."

"Compared to a homemade installation, this appliance is very stable."

"NetBackup is easy to use and user-friendly."

"We rarely need their help. I would give their technical support an 8.5 out of ten. We are satisfied."

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"The main valuable features are the fast RPO and RTOs we could achieve and the analytics behind that."

"The Zerto functions I like the most are data protection, static discovery, and, most importantly, virtual machine backups."

"The most valuable aspect of Zerto is the recovery speed."

"Zerto offered a very good front-end GUI for orchestration. The graphic interface was very good."

"Using Zerto, you can have your VM up and running in a matter of minutes. All you need to do is flip a switch, then you are good to go."

"Its automation and the ability to replicate and keep an RTO of just seconds is valuable. It is all automatic. Everything is pretty transparent on the backend. It is just point-and-go."

"Implementing this solution has given us sandboxing and the ability to move VMs."

"The continuous replication with a low recovery point objective (RPO) is crucial for us."

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Cons

"The solution could improve by providing more integration and security."

"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."

"Veeam has a verification action, which is good."

"The only drawback for NetBackup, and of course for Veritas, is that they have stuck to the same environment and to the same UI - User Interface. This needs to be improved in future releases. It needs to be more dynamic."

"More licensing options could be introduced to the software. It is currently based on capacity only. Compared to competitors, it is difficult to position it economically everywhere. From the usability point of view, they are making many improvements on new interfaces, the SaaS offering, etc."

"The scalability could be improved."

"The response from the support team has not always been quick, so sometimes there is a risk."

"The product should provide more AI and ML features."

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"I would like for Zerto to improve reporting, provide more data on individual VMs and their performance, and maybe expand into backup with the ability to scan for malware or offline scanning."

"I had to have my colleague contact technical support because we had an issue where VMs in VMware were getting blocked, and we weren't able to delete them."

"Sometimes, the menu buttons do not respond properly and can be slow to react."

"The knowledge base could be improved. Sometimes, it's finicky, especially when moving storage around. We've had to redo entire processes, which was time-consuming and resulted in data loss. This has happened multiple times, and despite following support steps and contacting support, we often had to resolve issues on our own."

"Whenever we do a failover, there's a confirmation box that shows up later. It's a little hard to see sometimes... A popup to continue would be a little bit better because then you're not sitting and waiting for something and it's already there."

"I have had problems with vRAs. When I am trying to restart a host, sometimes the vRAs will hang. I would like it if they wouldn't migrate off or shut themselves down, then I have to manually work with it a lot of the time."

"The documentation needs improvement in terms of the setup, getting enough detail, and getting that up to speed."

"I don't like the evacuation process. The host evacuation process could be a little simpler too. It takes our maintenance a bit longer, when we are doing host maintenance, because we still need to evacuate the vRAs manually. I know they tried to make it more automatic, but it is not quite there yet."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a license required for this solution."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a nine."

"The licensing costs are approximately 150,00 Saudi Riyals."

"I cannot say whether our licensing costs are on a monthly or annual basis, as we have a global contract."

"The licensing costs for this solution are very high."

"It costs more to license support for this solution, compared to others."

"Overall, Veritas is a good solution; the problem is the cost."

"The pricing for the solution's software maintenance and licensing is high."

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"The solution is very cost-effective and very easy to set-up but does not compromise on features."

"The price is reasonable."

"At close to $1,000 a license, it makes it very hard to protect all of your environment, especially for a smaller shop."

"Zerto is a little bit on the higher side in terms of pricing. It would be better if they had a pay-as-you-go package."

"The product's pricing is the one area where it is less competitive."

"It was a little bit expensive. It took a long time for us to get DR for our workstations. It's one thing when you have 15 servers, but when we needed to bring on almost another 200 users, and each was the same price as the servers, it was too expensive. But Zerto worked with us and gave us a solution that was pretty decent in terms of price."

"Licensing Zerto was very simple. They had a product that fit our size and scale. It made it really easy to choose."

"I know it is per server, but I am not fully aware of the price model. I know for our VDI environment, they are looking at something that is on the lower end and that they can use just for migrations and not so much a disaster recovery."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

The tool's most valuable feature is recovery.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

The pricing for the solution's software maintenance and licensing is high.

What needs improvement with Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

Our main challenge was deciding on the right capacity for expansion, but once we settled on two NAS servers with sixteen TB, things have been smooth. We haven’t faced major challenges, just the ini...

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Zerto is priced high.

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Also Known As

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Overview

Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a comprehensive data protection solution that combines hardware and software into a single, integrated platform. It offers scalable storage capacity, high-performance backup and recovery, and advanced deduplication technology. With its intuitive user interface and centralized management, it simplifies data protection operations and reduces administrative overhead.

The appliance supports a wide range of applications, databases, and operating systems, ensuring comprehensive protection for both physical and virtual environments. It also provides seamless integration with cloud storage, enabling organizations to leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud backup.

With its robust security features and built-in resiliency, the Veritas NetBackup Appliance ensures the integrity and availability of critical data, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes.

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Sample Customers

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United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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