N2W Reviews

I am using this solution for backing up my virtual machines. I am also performing backups on applications like SQL and Alliance.

This product works as our DR solution.

The backup and restore functionality is very easy to use and manage.

The GUI could be slightly improved.

I have been using N2WS Cloud Protection Manager for three years.

This is one of the most stable products that I have ever seen. We are using it on a daily basis.

I cannot comment on scalability because I have been using this solution for three years and have not upgraded or increased my infrastructure. There are between 30 and 35 servers that are being backed up.

I have used Commvault and HYCU and the GUI on both of these products is slightly better.

It is very easy to set up this product. We did not have any major problems.

I deployed this solution myself, and it took 30 to 45 minutes.

The price is not cheap, nor is it costly. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

This is a perfect product for me because I don't want something that consumes too much in terms of resources. I just want it to perform backups.

In my opinion, this product is for medium-sized companies. Not for a large enterprise.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use it for backup and recovery, to schedule the backups in the production environment in case of disaster.

The solution enables us to automate all the AWS workloads. Before, we had to make rules for every workload. Now we save time and are more relaxed.

• Easy one-click functionality
• Flexible backup policies and schedules for AWS workloads

Deployment is one area that could use improvement.

Additional features I would like to see are the ability to restore to different vendors, AWS and Azure, and/or the ability to take the information out of the AWS cloud.

We are able to use the product in production environments without disruption. The backup and recovery times are better, even if we put stress on the environment.

The scalability looks good. We have 12 VMs on the cloud, and the tool is helping us to improve backup and recovery times.

In terms of the integration and configuration of this product in our AWS environment, it is an easy-to-use tool, easy to install, very intuitive, and saves time.

We have some DBs in the environment and it works well with them. We also have some VMs in deployment and the integration with them was easy, without any problems.

It has very good pricing per instance and comes with three options, for both small and large environments, to fit your needs.

It was easy to find everything; the AWS Marketplace is very intuitive for anyone. We procured this solution via the Marketplace because of the facility of the portal, and to ensure full integration between the tool, the portal, etc. The process was very simple.

I rate it a ten out of ten. It is a good investment and gives us the best solution with its pay-for-what-you-need pricing.

One of our clients in AWS needed a near-immediate recovery for all of their cloud. That's why we opted for N2WS Backup & Recovery, which recovers it in 30 seconds or sometimes even less.

One of our clients in AWS needed a backup solution that would enable them to have a reliable backups solution and that would meet or exceed their SLAs without causing a dent on internal resources. So after evaluating, they used N2WS.

The recovery time is fantastic and it's proven. Also, it lowers the cost by providing a simple interface.

More documentation would be helpful, especially some step-by-step documents for recovery scenarios. In addition, a seamless integration with on-premise third party backup solutions would be great.

Its very stable and mature and utilized the cloud resources efficiently to do the job.

Its a cloud product and scales pretty nicely.

I give this product a ten out of ten because of the ease of operation, and the actual cost.

It was easy to purchase from the AWS marketplace. It is also very economical, and worth every penny.

It does the job and you don’t need to write your own scripts. It solves one of the major issues organizations have when they move to AWS.

We use it for backup of EC2 instances and RDS.

We offer our product to clients and backups is an expected feature. So, this is one of the many things that we can say we do. We have backups and recovery along with a lifecycle policy and schedule built-in for our clients.

The backup and recovery are the most valuable features. So, our developers can work with confidence. E.g., if we break something, we can quickly recover it instantly.

I would like them to make the controls a bit more user-friendly. The UI is a little dated and hard to use. Some of the buttons are a bit small. You have to go into the menu to get the settings you want. It would probably be good if there were some analysis dashboard or an easily accessible web dashboard for a lot of users where individual clients could see their backups, and even get recommendations or estimates of costs. 

The stability works fine. It hasn't gone down.

We backup things as standard, so usually we have over 600 instances that we back up every day.

It should scale fine.

We currently have about 200 AWS accounts and more than 600 instances being backed up. 

With the integration and configuration for AWS, there are still a few manual steps when setting up a new AWS account. Obviously, we can automate it, since it's standard. However, it might be good if it were built into their product. What happens now is we have to make new daily, weekly, and monthly backup policies, and we need to make these per account. However, these policies are same. It would be better if there was a technical reason for all these policies since customers are using hundreds of our accounts right now. It would be nice to have policies as standard, e.g., have three policies for all the accounts.

The purchasing process through the AWS Marketplace is easy. Just click the button.

We're a large company, and if you go through finance paying by invoice, it adds delays and more things to manually track. Whereas, with AWS Marketplace, for AWS instances, On Demand pricing, and elastic pricing, you can stop and start as you need. It takes away all the overhead of having to deal with finance if we're just building products. We're all tech people. We don't want to worry about the financial aspect of it.

The pricing and licensing on AWS is fine, because you can do it for smaller tiers depending on your number of instances, so it's not that scary. 

AWS adds more features and offer things for free, or cheaply. Therefore, we will be evaluating AWS Data Lifecycle Manager, because it will probably do backups. Thus, make sure the product that you are using is competitive or adds more value than AWS.

There wasn't a lot of choice for backup. Right now, AWS is sort of moving into this space. So, CPM will have to keep working to stay on the forefront of AWS and keep improving its product.

AWS is always going to be the biggest competitor. Because if you can do it natively, why are you going to pay for another tool? So, companies have to have an add value over AWS by maybe building a better dashboard that way multiple users can login and obtain an analysis of their backups.

We did look around the market, but couldn't find any mature cloud media type products.

See if you can do AWS natively if you're just starting out. Check out AWS first, then check out CPM. See what you can do it cheaply on the marketplace and what works for you.

We have only used the AWS version.