We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Dell NetWorker 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 easy to configure."
"The interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive most of the time. Scalability is nice. The multi-tenancy feature is very welcome. The integration with Linux works fine too."
"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."
"The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"The standard backup and restore feature is most used."
"The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication."
"Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."
"NetWorker's most valuable feature is recovery, including the policy-based backups that can be configured."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"NetWorker has very good scalability."
"Dell EMC NetWorker integrates well with our domain and the performance is quite good on-premise. We receive approximately 1 terabyte within one hour."
"Dell NetWorker's valuable feature is its ability to configure the network for immutability, specifically for backups."
"I feel that it is a good product."
"Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable."
"Technical support is good."
"The problem is just reliability. If the promises in the marketing material were realized in real life, it would be the perfect solution, but it's just the reliability issues."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"We are looking at scaling up to the cloud and using immutable copies on the cloud. Arcserve UDP 8.0 does have the immutable feature supporting AWS, but I'm looking for multi-cloud support. So, I'm waiting for Arcserve to release that in the next release."
"I think that the price could still be a bit cheaper and I do not like that they have been purchased by Arcserve."
"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."
"I would like to see encryption included in the next release to encrypt the data that we are backing up."
"They need to be compatible with the cloud because EMC NetWorker cannot compete with other products at the moment. EMC focuses only on their own cloud and do not take into consideration other cloud vendors."
"The front end of the solution could improve. The user-friendliness is lacking."
"The UI needs some enhancement to be more user-friendly."
"The end-user experience is not good."
"I haven't had a good experience with technical support. It takes them a very long time to resolve issues."
"The software also isn't user-friendly like Convault or Rubrik. The solution errors and management aren't so good in comparison."
"When you're working with VMware, you need to use vProxy machines. You have to install the vProxy for every host in the VMware environment."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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