We compared N-able Cove Data Protection and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Based on the comparison between N-able Cove Data Protection and Veeam Backup for Office 365, N-able Cove Data Protection is highly regarded for its user-friendly experience, protection, and efficient backup and restore capabilities. However, there are areas that need improvement, such as image restores, user permissions, and agent reliability. Veeam Backup for Office 365 is valued for its stability, ease of use, clear understanding of backup and recovery, and integration with Office 365. Suggestions for enhancement include better integration with SharePoint, automation capabilities, consistent performance, and a more user-friendly interface. Pricing for both solutions is generally considered reasonable, although some users find Veeam Backup for Office 365 to be on the higher side.
"What I like the most about it's the ease of use and the reliability that it has when copying information to the cloud."
"The ability to back up, restore, and do different types of testing for the preventative maintenance has really increased our importance to these clients because they see the value in how fast we can get them back up and running. We're saving them money in that way."
"It's their cloud, it's their storage. I don't have to buy a space on Amazon or Google's cloud and then use their software to push it. That works well for me. This way, I don't have to worry about another option or the opportunity that there might be a credential leak."
"For starters, this is one of few databases that allow us to backup MySQL databases, most others only support Microsoft SQL. This solution also has a very user-friendly interface accessed through a web browser. Additionally, backups can be easily configured through N-able Backup."
"I know I won't have an issue if the data is there. The reliability and the confidence that we have is amazing. It doesn't matter. We've had customers have ransomware. We've had customers that have had corruption. We've had customers that have had employees destroy their data. As long as it's been backed up, I know that I can get it back and I know I have nothing to worry about. Our confidence level is very high."
"It provides a single dashboard for all types of data protection, we monitor everything through a single dashboard. It simplifies everything overall. It allows us to see everything, whether passing or failing any issues, any problems through a single pane of glass that we don't have to click through or adjust as we go forward."
"The user interface is the most valuable. It gives us the ability to check everything. With more than 100 endpoints running that software, I like the ability to quickly check that everything is working correctly. That's one of the biggest selling points."
"Because the package includes cloud storage, we don't need to worry about hosting it inside. That was very important to us. And because the vendor has data centers worldwide, our reps in Europe and other places can get to what they need quickly and easily."
"The solution helps reduce our workload."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution provides good backup services for Microsoft 365."
"The way it backs up personal files is great."
"The solution is easy to use and stable and can be made to fit one's needs."
"The product offers good stability."
"The solution is stable."
"For small amounts of data, recovery is easy, but when it's large amounts of data, it takes forever. So, if they can have a service where they put our data on a hard drive and ship it to us as fast as possible, it would be great. Even if there's a fee associated with it, it's fine."
"The reporting feature and functionality need improvement. We would like to see a little bit more detailed reporting that offers more CEO or C-level focused reporting options."
"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."
"An area for improvement that would really work out well would be if there were a little bit more of an elegant handshake relationship between SolarWinds RMM and the PCs that are being backed up, to advise regarding "up" status... Since RMM is an agent that feeds back that a machine is alive and on, I don't see any reason why they can't either tap into that one feature or build the same exact polling within the backup agent, to update right away and say the system is online or offline."
"A better default view on my dashboard would be great. There is a lot of useless information there that it pulls up. They could present the dashboard slightly better, in terms of the extra information after the first five columns. The first five columns are awesome. After that, I don't care about the rest, and there are another seven things after that."
"One area I don't like has to do with the agent that goes on the system... if a system stays offline for some length of time, say for a week or so, I may have to go back in and reinstall the agent to get it back in business. I don't know what's causing that."
"A feature I'd like to see would be a more customizable admin console."
"N-able Cove Data Protection for Microsoft 365 is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution could improve scalability, both in terms of more storage and users. These two attributes are quite important when you talk about good scalability."
"It's a new product. It's not mature."
"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."
"If Veeam could offer backup as a service for data backup and recovery, that would be great. We'd like something like what Druva is offering at the moment."
"We would like to have a single management console for all of our backups."
"The solution should provide more integration with Teams and SharePoint Online to perform other tasks."
"The capacity storage is a challenge everywhere in the backup industry. The general feedback people are coming back to about this is that there is no deduplication based on it."
"They need to enable the encryption of backups so that nobody can gain access unless they have encryption details."
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N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 8th in Cloud Backup with 20 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Useful instant backup and resort, reliable and responsive support". N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, MSP360 Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Veeam Backup & Replication and Cohesity DataProtect. See our N-able Cove Data Protection vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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