We performed a comparison between Actifio 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."Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"The solution helps reduce costs."
"Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Veritas released a new feature in version 8 of NetBackup called VRP. It's kind of like replication management from VMware. The great thing about this feature is that Veritas gave it to us for free."
"It is important, when we chose a solution, that the customer service/technical support team could help us when we needed it, but the support was good."
"Veritas NetBackup Automatic Image Replication and CloudCatalyst features allow me to replicate deduped backup images from one site to a remote site, as well as duplicating deduped images to the Cloud (i.e. AWS S3, etc.)"
"We can easily expand the ability of the solution."
"I like the virtual server backup."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas NetBackup is the protection policies or protection module."
"Veritas NetBackup provides good backup performance, and I can mount the snapshot without an installer."
"It is easy to use, and you can run it with all kinds of client software environments. It works well with the most popular software, file systems, and operating systems. It is very useful to us."
"Google has stopped supporting the on-premise version of the tool."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"The biggest problem with NetBackup is licensing."
"Updates were not always consistent."
"Planning for the implementation takes a lot of time."
"Some of the hardware is out of support."
"It gets a lot of new features, but improvements in basic functionality are often sacrificed for a shiny new bullet point to put on sales presentations."
"Once the protection plan is created, we cannot pause or resume via the web administration page."
"I would like to have support enabled for cloud backups."
"GUI needs to be more user-friendly."
Actifio is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Actifio vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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