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SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor vs Veritas NetBackup comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

SolarWinds Storage Resource...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Storage Management (11th)
Veritas NetBackup
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor and Veritas NetBackup aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is designed for Storage Management and holds a mindshare of 2.8%, up 2.7% compared to last year.
Veritas NetBackup, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 4.7% mindshare, down 5.6% since last year.
Storage Management
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

it_user652953 - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides a visual representation and drill down into your environment.
Scalability is my sore spot. With the way they use nodes and count nodes, it’s very easy to blow well past your license amount. I have, for example, a 150 node license, of which I am monitoring 337 nodes. However, only 150 are actually monitored, so I have to do a lot to try to find the right applications to monitor. Since the next level for licensing is 500/700 or something like that, I simply haven’t been able to afford the bump up. I simply need a much higher license level than I have. However, the cost is too much and they lack the flexibility in allowing you a smaller step up. It goes from, say 150 nodes to 500. There is no 250 or 300, for example. Would I find applications to monitor, with the selection from Windows, Linux, SQL, IIS, Active Director, and Exchange? You bet. For now, however, I have to be patient until I can justify the cost of the upgrade.
Storemgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Covers a large spectrum of products and operating systems and part of a multi-layer strategy for data protection
We use it like any other backup solution for resource restoration when needed and for populating systems in environments with data. We use NetBackup's data management strategies for multi-target backups and retentions. That's the short answer. The full explanation is quite involved. It would require describing our environment, our workflows, and how we use policies and vaulting policies to move data around. But to keep it brief, NetBackup simplifies managing data across multiple targets with various retention periods. NetBackup is part of a multi-layer strategy. It's one of the many tools we use, to ensure we don't rely on a single product. So, the product has positively impacted our protection strategy. Moreover, we're satisfied with its performance when it comes to the deduplication function.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The backup and restoration are 100 percent guaranteed."
"The feature that is most useful for us is that it backs up every application that we own."
"The product is stable and reliable."
"It's a good product, it does what we want it to do."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"It has a very good user interface."
"We were able to witness the benefits of using the solution within weeks of using it."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
 

Cons

"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
"In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process."
"The virtual environment, cloud integration, copy data management features need improvement."
"Planning for the implementation takes a lot of time."
"Improvements can be made to the service by providing better and more competitive ratios on data backups. The functionality for backups is there with Veritas, but I would like to see them optimize and enhance this feature more."
"Main area that could be improved is the pricing, to make it more competitive"
"In terms of improvement, it's very difficult to make it work with multiple business units. Its security model is too constricted."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing model for this solution is very powerful."
"Veritas NetBackup is very expensive, and I think price is the main reason which some customers don't want to use this solution."
"If you have a source size of one terabyte then they will charge for a one terabyte license, although what is actually being stored is much less."
"Veritas Netbackup offers affordable licensing."
"Pricing is good, under our budget, and flexible."
"The solution is expensive."
"Most people have felt this solution was somewhat expensive."
"When you compare NetBackup's software licensing system with Veeam's, which is simpler and based on instances (or how many physical machines or virtual machines you want to protect), NetBackup isn't that competitive for smaller scale companies. However, if you're running many large workloads, then NetBackup may be the better option."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
75%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
3%
University
3%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor?
Some of my clients complain that their arrays are working fine, yet, in SolarWinds, they show me as unreachable as the status. When I ask my client what the status actually is, they say it's runnin...
What is the best next generation backup tool?
Assuming you have an onprem ecosystem which runs the VMware, physical systems on Win, Linux and Unix and run both traditional DB's and nosql DB's like mongo, then Netbackup (NBU) will be the right ...
What do you like most about Veritas NetBackup?
The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup?
The product is cost-effective, and I would rate its pricing as an eight out of ten. The pricing model is based on the amount of data transferred, making it manageable for us.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

SolarWinds SRM
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Sample Customers

NetSuite, Youngs Seafood, APS Bank, Sven Meinks
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