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Altaro VM Backup for MSPs vs Veritas NetBackup Appliance comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
MSP Backup (9th)
Veritas NetBackup Appliance
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (16th), Deduplication Software (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs and Veritas NetBackup Appliance aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is designed for MSP Backup and holds a mindshare of 6.1%, down 7.3% compared to last year.
Veritas NetBackup Appliance, on the other hand, focuses on Deduplication Software, holds 5.5% mindshare, up 4.3% since last year.
MSP Backup Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Altaro VM Backup for MSPs6.1%
N-able Cove Data Protection15.1%
MSP360 Backup10.4%
Other68.4%
MSP Backup
Deduplication Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Veritas NetBackup Appliance5.5%
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain24.7%
HPE StoreOnce18.5%
Other51.3%
Deduplication Software
 

Featured Reviews

Anthony Linder - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Application Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees
An incredibly stable product with a great user interface
Improvements are needed in the solution since it might get difficult if you just drop a technical person who doesn't necessarily have a lot of experience with Altaro VM Backup for MSPs. A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times. In Altaro VM Backup for MSPs, if you expect something to be somewhere else or when you expect a certain part of the user interface to function in a specific way, it doesn't happen so since the functionality that you expect to be there in the product isn't present on that screen and you need to go somewhere else for that piece. I think that is the case with the most complex tech products. I would like to be able to store a full cluster environment inside of Altaro VM and make sure that the cluster communicates inside of the product, presuming that we have the necessary backup drive in our company. Altaro VM already can test individual VM restores, but one can't really go beyond that scope, at least with the version of the solution that we have in our company right now.
SG
Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited
Backup management excels with user-friendly interface and effective deduplication, offering robust data protection
Leveraging AI in Veritas NetBackup Appliance is one of the road maps now that they have done a collaboration with Cohesity, which is a feature I'm looking forward to. Using AI is one improvement I recommend for the Veritas NetBackup Appliance. They have implemented some aspects of AI for features such as malware detection and anomaly detection. I believe they can do more to give customers more insight into their data, allowing them to see it and understand what they can do, such as archiving old data. They can do more by utilizing the data effectively to provide insights to customers about their space usage, future projections, and options for managing old data.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Granular restoration is extremely useful in Altaro VM Backup for MSPs since it is something that we make use of the most in our company."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can be used in many different kinds of systems."
"The most valuable features of Veritas NetBackup Appliance are the ease of use and the familiar interface."
"The most valuable feature of the Veritas NetBackup Appliance is the virtual machine backups."
"I think the solution is very intuitive, effective, and easy to use."
"The encryption feature is very good, the product itself and the new features are excellent, and it is pretty user-friendly compared to other software and very easy to deploy."
"The biggest advantage is that I do not need to manage backups on traditional tapes, which helps maintain total business continuity."
"We find the pricing is reasonable."
"It has been our go-to product for backup."
 

Cons

"A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times."
"The product should provide more AI and ML features."
"They could improve the interface a bit."
"Veeam has a verification action, which is good."
"It is not easy because I have worked a lot on the tool, and in case it gets corrupted at any point, it is not easy to restore the data without losing information is not easy."
"This solution has to have better integration with the cloud, as well as with other solutions such as Business Intelligence products."
"I contacted their support once, and the process was slow, which discouraged further contact."
"I would like to see support for databases such as MySQL and MongoDB."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing costs for this solution are very high."
"I cannot say whether our licensing costs are on a monthly or annual basis, as we have a global contract."
"This solution is expensive."
"The solution is not cheap"
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price, I rate the solution's pricing an eight."
"I rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."
"Renewing subscriptions for appliance support is costly."
"There is a license required for this solution."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Performing Arts
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise27
 

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Sample Customers

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