Carbonite Server vs Dell NetWorker comparison

"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"The solution is very stable."

"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

"Anybody could drive the GUI."

"Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable."

"I started off as a storage engineer and ended up owning Dell EMC Data Domain and Dell EMC NetWorker. I've not used any other backup solutions at this scale. Dell EMC NetWorker does what I need it to do, it's efficient."

"The most valuable features for us at the moment are NFS, file system backup, and IP backup."

"The best feature of Dell EMC NetWorker is its wide spectrum of available plugins for each and every software that you can back up, such as SAP HANA, Oracle, AXI-based machines, or Dell-based machines. Whatever you want to back up, you can do it with Dell EMC NetWorker. It is a very solid backup software. It is the oldest backup software from EMC, and it comes from Dell EMC's legacy."

"I feel that it is a good product."

"The updated graphical interface is better than it used to be."

"The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."

"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."

"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."

"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."

"Reporting and support for this product need to be improved. There are multiple bugs that need to be fixed."

"The team does not have enough knowledge to support you."

"The initial setup is complex."

"Support is definitely an area of concern because of the time it takes to resolve our issues."

"We are looking forward to better stability in future versions."

"The stability of the NMC could use some attention, as it tends to be a bit shaky during jobs and other operations."

"The UI needs some enhancement to be more user-friendly."

"Ports are not visible to the network, which requires a dedicated physical server."

"Its price is reasonable."

"The solution is open source."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"The pricing for the telecom, government, and banking sectors is relatively affordable."

"Dell EMC NetWorker is very expensive."

"The licensing model can be traditional licensing or capacity-based licensing."

"The price is a little on the high side, but it's reliable and provides a good service."

"It is a relatively inexpensive product compared to one of its competitors."

"The price of the license could be cheaper and it would be a benefit if they came up with a new pricing model. The competitors here in Oman sell universal licensing where a number of virtual machines are hosted at the customer place which can be licensed, or you can license the CPU sockets in those servers. However, NetWorker offers only CPU sockets or overall storage capacity to backup, but there is no universal licensing where you can provide a number of VMs. They should offer more options to stay competitive with other solutions, such as Veeam."

"Low cost is key."

"The pricing of this solution is very good."