We performed a comparison between ExaGrid EX Series and Veritas NetBackup Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."
"The solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam."
"It is a solid and a quite simple solution, which is a good combination. The customers like the simplicity and its scale-out capacity. They like the support pricing, and even the extension capacity pricing, a fixed price, which the executive is offering in Czech market."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and data deduplication. It's extremely easy to use and does a very good job of data deduplication and compression."
"One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated."
"The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the process is fast, ensuring smooth backup and recovery operations at high speeds. However, the process becomes slower for long-term backups moved to the retention zone due to fragmentation. So, if the data is older than a few days, the speed may be limited, especially for non-deduplicated data in the landing zone."
"The solution is useful for backups."
"It’s quite scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can be used in many different kinds of systems."
"I think the solution is very intuitive, effective, and easy to use."
"I personally find Veritas NetBackup Applicance hassle-free."
"The intelligent policies feature is used in order to protect the VMware infrastructure. One of the things that makes a big difference for our company is the usage of these intelligence policies. The system automatically provides extra protection for any VMware server application or service. From a backup administrator's point of view, this is what we call peace of mind. It reduces the workload and therefore reduces resources needed from the company."
"It is very capable of scaling and very good for heterogeneous environments."
"The initial setup gets easier the more you do it."
"The product's documentation can be made more precise."
"The solution could improve by switching to a flash-type solution rather than the spinning drives that they currently use. However, we have not had any failure with the spinning drives. The flash-type drives are more up-to-date and are something that is in their roadmap."
"The tool reduces storage footprint. However, clients are now storing data for longer durations with increasing requirements to retain backups for longer periods, particularly as a defense against ransomware attacks. As a result, the retention zone with duplicated data is experiencing more demand, leading to space constraints. This necessitates using higher-end, more expensive models to address the issue."
"I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers."
"The one place where we are sometimes losing the opportunity with ExaGrid is that a few customers still require a fiber channel connectivity, which is not always possible."
"When speaking about a scale-out, you want to have better equipment. You cannot just add a disc to the foreign equipment. You have to buy another one and put it together, like parallel."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The price needs to be improved because it is really expensive."
"The challenge arose due to a space issue. The issue was related to disk breaks, especially when power cuts occurred. One of the disks would break, leading to a loss of functionality."
"Technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"They could simplify the process of installing, and provide more space for data during the process."
"The installation is cumbersome."
"The reporting feature can be improved."
"It would be a better solution if we were able to make more reports in regards to the backup system."
ExaGrid EX Series is ranked 7th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 6th in Deduplication Software with 46 reviews. ExaGrid EX Series is rated 9.0, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ExaGrid EX Series writes "Integrates well, reasonably priced, and provides high level support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". ExaGrid EX Series is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, Quantum DXi Series, NetApp FAS Series and DD Boost, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, HPE StoreOnce and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our ExaGrid EX Series vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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