We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Veritas NetBackup 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."It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."
"What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance."
"We don't need to manage different devices."
"We use it for complete backup and recovery. We have multiple clients and have created multiple large virtual capabilities and zoning backlogs."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."
"IDPA's best feature is Turbo Boost Technology. The compression and duplication features are excellent, too."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature as it reduces the backup time and provides backup of a single copy of data"
"The features are good."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"The tool's most valuable feature is backups."
"The VM portal and the CloudCatalyst are two of the solution's most valuable features."
"What I like most is it is a professional product. It supports all kinds of technologies, and I consider it one of the best backup products available."
"Backup and recovery software with great stability, and can support large-scale environments."
"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."
"The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."
"Dell PowerProtect DP needs to include more features and improve backup for a continual base."
"Managing the product is a little bit complicated."
"The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products."
"There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity."
"After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised."
"I would like to see integration with Dell EMC's Cloud Tier."
"Licensing costs are quite high."
"The virtual environment, cloud integration, copy data management features need improvement."
"The product needs to improve its GUI. It needs to make use of a web interface."
"The deployment time is longer than it is with other products."
"This product would be improved with the inclusion of a Sandbox feature like Veeam Sandbox."
"We want a solution that can be scaled-out because our data is growing very quickly, and we aren't able to back it up quickly. It takes one or two days, which is a problem. It is very slow. We just use one backup server. We want another solution with maybe a backup server cluster to back up more data in one day. We want a solution that can be scaled-out to back up our data quickly and efficiently."
"The biggest additional features needed are more cloud capabilities and security from ransomware."
"I also think they could improve the reporting. They use a web-based software application OpsCenter for the reporting and I see that they haven't made any changes in years."
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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