We performed a comparison between NetApp FAS Series and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp and others in Deduplication Software."The most valuable features are compression and dedupe."
"The migration of the volume on the cluster is very useful and easy to use."
"Good for NAS and unified solutions."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"NAS stability"
"The solution is stable."
"NetApp FAS is highly stable and reliable, especially under a heavy load. That is what I like most about the NetApp."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"I’ve found that I use command line more often than I thought needed. Some things should be done in the GUI, and command-line switches can be overwhelming and take up a lot of time."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"For long term partnership in Myanmar, the local warehouse should be built in Myanmar that's something I'd like to see. We have some issues with supply so there is sometimes a delay in getting the hardware."
"Needs more SAN support."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery.
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