We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and HPE StoreOnce based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."NetWorker has very good scalability."
"Technical support is good."
"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 solution is simple to understand."
"The interface is user-friendly and can be used by the end-users."
"The solution has minimized the recovery time objective, and the recovery point objective, the RTO and RPO. Most customers are looking for to minimize downtime. The solution has helped ensure this."
"Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable."
"Very user-friendly with a good interface."
"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."
"I'm impressed with their support structure, call availability, understanding, flexibility in scheduling remote sessions, and accommodating customer timeframes."
"I think the most valuable feature is the catalyst technology, which is in the StoreOnce appliance."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression capabilities."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"The hardware is strong and all the equipment has a good infrastructure. Personally, I think it's the best storage product in HPE for small to medium-sized businesses."
"I like the tool’s deduplication feature. We get a ratio of 9:1 for deduplication. The product is also Linux based. Last year, our organization faced some virus attacks. However, the backup was safe because of the product being a Linux version. HPE StoreOnce is a secure product."
"Dell NetWorker could improve the GUI to include rack recovery."
"The configuration is too complex."
"Lacks a restore feature."
"Reporting and support for this product need to be improved. There are multiple bugs that need to be fixed."
"I would like to see better support for the container systems, and we would like to see more support for image backups instead of pure file backups."
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure the solution."
"It's complex in nature."
"The team does not have enough knowledge to support you."
"This product would be improved with the inclusion of more features to security or WORM."
"I would like to see better integration with Veeam software."
"HPE StoreOnce needs to provide a SaaS solution by offering high-density disks."
"One item I wanted to see is SSD drives as a cache, and that was, for a time, still lacking in StoreOnce, however, they have done it now. It's not available yet, however, it will be shortly."
"The solution's technical support should be faster."
"HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities."
"The platform's price could be lower."
"The web interface, ease of use, and GUI all need to be improved."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Rubrik, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE Primera.
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