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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Veritas NetBackup comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
32nd
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (23rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (17th)
Veritas NetBackup
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas NetBackup is 4.8%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Miller Cortés - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 3, 2024
Provides ease of deployment and continuous data protection
The primary use case for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is to ensure data replication and protection across diverse environments without the need for hypervisor integration.  The product's most valuable features include its ease of deployment, cost-effectiveness due to AWS's pay-as-you-go pricing…
N'GUESSAN E R - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 25, 2023
Efficient data recovery and replication features
There is a big change in Veritas. In the past, we could easily change servers or appliances and continue working by restoring the catalog. We could change servers from Linux to Linux or Linux to Solaris and perform catalog restores to continue working. But with the new version, we are forced to engage Veritas' professional services, which is too expensive. Sometimes, we've received quotes exceeding $100,000 for a catalog migration. This expense was unnecessary in the past. For instance, we used to install a new release of Linux and simply restore the catalog, and the system would function well. But with the latest version, it's no longer feasible. For instance, if we want to migrate from appliance 5030 to 5060 or even just 5050, we are compelled to engage Veritas consultants due to the intricate data manipulation involved. This additional expense is quite expensive. In the past, these devices didn't even exist, and we could easily restore the catalog, resulting in a fully functional system. However, the new version demands expensive expertise for such tasks, which I find unacceptable for our clients.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For regular backup and restore solutions, this product is fine."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, it's not complex."
"We went from an organization with minimal to no disaster recovery. I was able to spin up the disaster recovery environment with AWS rather quickly and meet business requirements."
"It provides our disaster recovery solution. It works fine in our tests.​"
"AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is a robust and reliable solution for disaster recovery needs."
"CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution."
"​The initial setup is really straightforward."
"The solution is dependent on the network bandwidth. For example, if they have a bandwidth of 10Mbps the solution will run a little heavier. If the bandwidth is good the solution runs well."
"This product is flexible enough to allow for backing up data from physical machines, as well as from your cloud environment."
"The reporting is very good, with all of the details highlighted and very clear."
"I have found it to be the simplest solution to the market. It gives us a complete end to end solution. We are using this solution, Veritas Appliance and another one for access archiving. It is convenient to have all the support from one vendor."
"This is a product that has been on the market for a while and they have mastered the backup process, especially when backing up to tape, for most environments."
"It is a good solution. It covers most of the applications."
"I think the support is fine. We haven't had issues with it."
"NetBackup is very easy for end-users."
"The client side deduplication reduces the backup window."
 

Cons

"The bandwidth is a constant upload communication to the AWS DR environment, so if you do not have the proper bandwidth, it will definitely eat up your internet line."
"Sometimes a server will get a bit behind. ​"
"I have not seen any areas that need improvement at this time."
"I would like to see better support for creating and working with archives."
"The user interface, customer support, and the recovery time for the current customer query could use improvement."
"The product could be improved by incorporating more AI-driven automation for deployment and additional security features. These enhancements would make the solution even more user-friendly and secure."
"The only thing I would like to see is, they don't have a formal ticketing system. There is no way I can go back and see what questions we had six months back, what issues we had, and how they were resolved."
"The UI could be a little sleeker."
"We had some issues with the hardware backup appliance."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"There could be granular control over metadata components, specifically in the context of JSON data for the product."
"I would like to have support enabled for cloud backups."
"It should be able to integrate with the cloud. If we leverage a cloud in the future for backup, there should be very fast help and more options for customers to choose from."
"Main area that could be improved is the pricing, to make it more competitive"
"The backup operation interface is not as mature as those of Veritas's competitors and has room for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They license us on a per machine basis. We have a set number of machines, which we have licensed.​"
"CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is charging clients $20 to do the DR backups. It is an expensive solution."
"Where the price adds up, there are CloudEndure licenses, then there is the AWS environment, and finally, there is the AWS storage, so cumulatively, it adds up."
"I rate the price of CloudEndure Disaster Recovery a six out of ten."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"The pricing is better now that they had come out with the Tier 2 which replicates a little less often. In comparison to what I would have been spending with any other type of solution, the pricing is fair."
"We were happy with the pricing that they gave us."
"I feel the product's pricing is a good value. Licensing is pretty straightforward."
"Veritas NetBackup is more expensive than Cohesity and Rubrik, but it is comparable in price to Commvault, IBM, and Dell."
"If you have a source size of one terabyte then they will charge for a one terabyte license, although what is actually being stored is much less."
"Annual licensing fee."
"There is a license required for this solution and it is priced based upon the data used."
"We are very satisfied with the price of this solution."
"Acceptable if you need to implement it for larger environments, e.g. over 1000 clients. For smaller setups it might be too expensive."
"The licensing model for this solution is very powerful."
"Veritas NetBackup is considerably cheaper than that of Druva, the former being quite affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a fairly stable solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
It has pay-as-you-go pricing. The cost will be different if you are not utilizing it as often as possible because there are costs beforehand and after an incident.
What is the best next generation backup tool?
Assuming you have an onprem ecosystem which runs the VMware, physical systems on Win, Linux and Unix and run both traditional DB's and nosql DB's like mongo, then Netbackup (NBU) will be the right ...
What do you like most about Veritas NetBackup?
The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions.
 

Also Known As

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
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Sample Customers

Agio, Cloud Nation, Limelight Networks
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