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Dell NetWorker vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

Dell Technologies and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Dell Technologies is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.8, while Oracle is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.3. Dell Technologies holds a 3.1% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.
Dell NetWorker
Read 81 Dell NetWorker reviews
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  • 5,172 Comparison Views
90% willing to recommend
Oracle Data Guard
Read 31 Oracle Data Guard reviews
  • 2,695 Views
  • 1,828 Comparison Views
94% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell NetWorker and Oracle Data Guard compete in data protection and disaster recovery. Oracle Data Guard is seen as superior due to its advanced features and reliability, justifying its higher price.

Features: Dell NetWorker offers robust backup capabilities, a centralized management interface, and cost-effectiveness. Oracle Data Guard provides real-time data protection, automated failovers, and long-term reliability.

Room for Improvement: Dell NetWorker needs enhancements in cloud integration, simplifying configuration, and broader compatibility. Oracle Data Guard requires better integration with non-Oracle systems, a more intuitive setup, and reduced complexity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell NetWorker is noted for easy deployment and responsive support. Oracle Data Guard, although more complex to deploy, offers reliable support. Dell NetWorker's deployment process is simpler, while Oracle's strong customer service levels the field.

Pricing and ROI: Dell NetWorker is recognized for its lower setup costs and reasonable ROI. Oracle Data Guard involves higher initial investment but delivers superior data protection and long-term benefits.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.8
Dell NetWorker's customer service is appreciated for friendliness, but technical support experiences vary, with requests for faster responses.
Sentiment score
8.5
Oracle Data Guard customer service is generally effective but criticized for variable support quality and long response times.
Technical support in Turkey is excellent, providing on-site support for some products.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
3.8
Dell NetWorker needs faster restore, better stability, improved integration, user-friendliness, enhanced support, efficient management, and clearer pricing.
Sentiment score
6.3
Oracle Data Guard is complex with high costs, insufficient documentation, technical issues, and needs better integration, monitoring, and regional support.
Dell should consider creating certifications similar to Cisco's CCNA, which has significantly helped Cisco in marketing and user adoption.
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Dell NetWorker is seen as scalable but can face challenges with infrastructure and stability in larger enterprises.
Sentiment score
8.8
Oracle Data Guard offers scalable database replication, improved stability with Oracle RAC, and highly rated enterprise-level capabilities since version twelve.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
6.3
Dell NetWorker provides competitive pricing with complex licensing, offering discounts for sectors, with varying user opinions on costs.
No sentiment score available
Licensing starts from around five thousand US dollars and can go up to $40,000 or $50,000 depending on the project.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Dell NetWorker's stability is mixed; reliability improves with updates, best practices, and proper configuration, despite some early challenges.
Sentiment score
8.4
Oracle Data Guard is highly stable and reliable, excelling with large databases, though major upgrades require thorough testing.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
7.9
Dell NetWorker provides scalable, fast backup solutions with robust management and compatibility across diverse systems, including SAP HANA and Oracle.
Sentiment score
8.1
Oracle Data Guard provides reliable, easy-to-maintain data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery with robust integrity, security, and performance.
As for technical support, the service provided in Turkey is very good, and they also offer on-site support for some products, which keeps us happy.
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Categories and Ranking

Dell NetWorker
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
13th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Oracle Data Guard
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell NetWorker is 3.1%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.8%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration
We had a security event back in February. We lost all our servers. We probably had 1500 servers. We used NetWorker to recover and restore VMs. It took us almost 30 days to get back up. It was not quick. However, we wouldn't have been able to recover without the product’s help. We first had to restore the NetWorker infrastructure. We used data domains. We imported the catalog. We identified the tier-one VMs we needed and got those restored. We installed security products on them to ensure they were clean. Then, we booted them up. The solution allowed us to recover our infrastructure.
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Azhagupandi Parthiban - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers near-real-time replication for data consistency and continuously introducing new features through upgrades
There are various advantages. First of all, easy to deploy. The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. In other ways, the implementation is very, very important. Like, we have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product. Once you configure it, it goes through the rollback, and then Data Guard introduces this snapshot thing. So once the restoration happens, we can go back to the original thing, and we make that a standard. It's a pretty decent and key function for Oracle. So, enterprise organizations go for Oracle only for features like these.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?
From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...
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What do you like most about Dell NetWorker?
The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell NetWorker?
I am not sure about the exact pricing, but it seems to be nominal and reasonable.
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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...
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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...
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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...
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Also Known As

NetWorker
Active Data Guard
 

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Overview

Built on a reputation of efficiency and reliability, thousands of customers trust Dell NetWorker to protect their data and applications across multiple environments, from core to edge to cloud.

Inherently flexible, NetWorker helps you deploy and leverage the data protection that fits your needs. NetWorker protects both physical and virtual environments, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as cloud workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

NetWorker is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. NetWorker is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

 

Sample Customers

Republic Bank, Westgate Resorts, Macquire Cloud Services, Shriners, Panatonni, Qatar Islamic Bank, Eurosport
Athenahealth, Discover Financial Services
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