We performed a comparison between Actifio and Dell NetWorker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"The solution helps reduce costs."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"The solution is simple to understand."
"NetWorker's most valuable feature is recovery, including the policy-based backups that can be configured."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"The most valuable features for us at the moment are NFS, file system backup, and IP backup."
"NetWorker has very good scalability."
"The updated graphical interface is better than it used to be."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The backup software has been much faster since we've deployed the solution."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"Google has stopped supporting the on-premise version of the tool."
"It is a little buggy at times, which is the only thing that I dislike about this product."
"The licensing rules are difficult to navigate and understand."
"Lacks a restore feature."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The user interface is hard to use, it should be simplified. There are a lot of web-based management interfaces which they should consider."
"The implementation process could be improved."
"We are able to do direct backups, but analyzing the logs is not straightforward."
"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."
Actifio is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and NetApp Cloud Backup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud. See our Actifio vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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