Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI vs. Dell Networker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Commvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A
Dell Networker
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
Dell NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.N/A
Pricing
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIDell Networker
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Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIDell Networker
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIDell Networker
Considered Both Products
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
I think costs are at very good level if we compare Commvault Complete Data Protection with EMC running Data Domains, howewer de duplication rates are a liitle bit lower on Commvault Complete Data Protection vs Data Domain. On VMware backup Veem rules, but Commvault Complete …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
  • Veritas NetBackup is an old backup program, you must make SQL configuration on the client using files.
  • Dell EMC Networker is also an old program, it can't make own deduplication and compress on a dummy disk. You must login to the client for installation and troubleshooting. It …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Commvault has a single console to manage all platforms such as backup and replication. It's a good backup window for servers and different platforms.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Why Commvault? Well, working with backup software in the last 25 years, I decided on Commvault, for being a safe, reliable tool with excellent technical support and was for sure the tool to cover all our needs. First we started with our physical servers and the following year …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
We were previously a Networker shop. Networker advanced their technology over recent years through acquisitions of other products. This made the backup environment cumbersome to manage. Depending on components you purchased, there may be multiple consoles to manage, …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
All these tools were silos. Each one has it is own backup format/templates which are not recognized by others.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
As there is a lack of development and focus on Networker, we were forced to adopt a new and modern solution. Commvault was chosen as it keeps up with market developments and is recognized as a strong leader by Gartner and IDC. Other products like Veaam look nice but lack a lot …
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Hands down, CommVault exceeds the functionality of all products that we've evaluated. Few products bring together the comprehensive feature set that CommVault brings to our environment.
Chose Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
I used EMC Networker at a previous job. It was a very full featured backup solution, but also very costly. Commvault was a better fit for this size of organization and filled the needs of the company to meet compliance with archived backups. Other products of lesser cost, …
Dell Networker
Chose Dell Networker
NetWorker and CommVault are both rated in the top quadrant of Gartner's assessment of backup/recovery applications. We have used both for a number of years, and CommVault was the winner without any significant opposition technically from NetWorker. We moved from CommVault to …
Chose Dell Networker
Our trust in DataDomain as a premier deduplication technology naturally leads to [Dell EMC] Networker being the appropriate backup application to integrate with. Networker provides the most favorable dedup with DataDomain when compared to other backup technologies, and provides …
Chose Dell Networker
I've used many DR platforms over the years: HP Data Protector, Veritas (formerly Symantec) Backup Exec, Acronis Backup Advanced, AppAssure (another Dell product), Commvault, and a few others. We selected Networker based on its integration with the Data Domain hardware we wanted …
Chose Dell Networker
Networker appears to be decent against NetBackup and Backup Exec as far as policy-based backup solutions are concerned and for stability. But it isn't as close to the virtualization layer as Veeam is and is not as feature rich as CommVault is, especially as it relates to …
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Features
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIDell Networker
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
7.7
73 Ratings
6% below category average
Dell Networker
5.0
11 Ratings
48% below category average
Universal recovery7.765 Ratings5.29 Ratings
Instant recovery6.761 Ratings6.011 Ratings
Recovery verification7.065 Ratings6.09 Ratings
Business application protection8.068 Ratings4.59 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.368 Ratings3.010 Ratings
Incremental backup identification7.073 Ratings4.811 Ratings
Backup to the cloud7.355 Ratings5.26 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression7.471 Ratings6.910 Ratings
Snapshots8.068 Ratings6.09 Ratings
Flexible deployment6.762 Ratings2.79 Ratings
Management dashboard8.663 Ratings4.59 Ratings
Platform support8.663 Ratings3.99 Ratings
Retention options8.061 Ratings4.79 Ratings
Encryption8.360 Ratings7.27 Ratings
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User Ratings
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIDell Networker
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(75 ratings)
7.1
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(8 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(12 ratings)
3.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(52 ratings)
6.3
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AIDell Networker
Likelihood to Recommend
Commvault
Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
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Dell Technologies
For users with a basic backup system that does not provide advanced data protection this is a life saver in the age we live in where hackers are looking to encrypt and ruin your important backups. I would recommend [Dell EMC Networker] based on its features, price, and ease of use. If you have a similar product already it does not offer many unique features however.
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Pros
Commvault
  • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
  • Improves our Disaster Recovery
  • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
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Dell Technologies
  • Seamlessly integrates with DataDomain
  • Seamlessly integrates with vmWare for extremely fast VM backups
  • Provides agent-based integration for a very wide array of applications-aware backups, including but not limited to: Microsoft SQL/Exchange/Sharepoint, Meditech, Oracle, DB2, Informix, SAP
  • Integrates with a wide family of NAS solutions for NDMP backups
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Cons
Commvault
  • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
  • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
  • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
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Dell Technologies
  • The GUI is horrible. Giant windows that don't size properly, confusing terminology, multiple clicks to get things done, it's just a disorganized mess. I can't put this in front of my junior techs because it requires some background in DR software to fully comprehend, and even then it's not easy. It feels very much like this was tacked on to a command-line based product as an afterthought.
  • Better management features. It's difficult to integrate with Active Directory, for one. You'll need a Dell EMC tech to help you. Items can't be renamed and have to be recreated. Options are buried in multiple GUI tabs and often are just command line strings in a free-text field. Diagnosing failed jobs and workflows is cumbersome and the errors are often cryptic without some experience. Design it well and pray for uptime, because you need this to work when disaster requires it to.
  • Poor reporting features for an enterprise class product. You can't schedule any type of simple summary (an audit requirement for us) in the base product. To do this requires the additional cost of Data Protection Advisor, which is also horribly designed and impossible to get working quickly.
  • Post-sales contact is non-existent. We've been through a few reps and the project team dropped us at one point with a half-finished implementation when the original sales guy moved on. We only got the the promised product implementation by telling Dell that we weren't paying the bill until they delivered what they promised and were contractually obligated to.
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Likelihood to Renew
Commvault
It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
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Dell Technologies
There are three reasons for not renewing our use of NetWorker: 1) the rising and extremely high cost of support and proprietary hardware needed for deduplication, 2) the complete unreliability of the product (we couldn't recover from a true disaster if we wanted to), and 3) the horrible support from EMC for the product
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Usability
Commvault
Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
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Dell Technologies
NetWorker has the clunkiest interface and unfriendliest CLI with which I have ever had to work. I spent three years hating this application because it took ALL of my time just to keep it running. Even then, I had no confidence in our ability to recover from a disaster because of its unreliability.
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Reliability and Availability
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
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Dell Technologies
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Performance
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
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Dell Technologies
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Support Rating
Commvault
I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
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Dell Technologies
The support team has always been good, and there is never an issue that can't be resolved. The techs are competent and know the product. The slightly less than perfect rating I'm giving is because Support shouldn't carry the burden themselves. We hear from Dell sales people all the time, but they never call and ask about this product, nor do they offer to upsell it or make it better. That lack of sales support and coherence hurts the overall rating a bit. When I spend my company's money on your product, I expect you to at least ACT like you care, if not actually care for real. It influences my opinion and future purchasing habits.
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In-Person Training
Commvault
Traning is very easy very helpful
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Dell Technologies
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Online Training
Commvault
Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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Dell Technologies
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Implementation Rating
Commvault
Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
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Dell Technologies
How can anyone build a house without a blueprint? NetWorker was ramrodded into place here without a design or implementation plan. The result was a setup that was doomed from the start and never worked reliable over the full three years of our contract obligation.
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Alternatives Considered
Commvault
In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
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Dell Technologies
EMC and Unitrends are equal at the file level and SQL backups. What makes Unitrends the better product is the ability to backup VMs as a whole. They both have the ability to email reports about failures and hardware issues. Unitrends has superior support and knowledge base and support is available 24/7.
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Scalability
Commvault
Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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Dell Technologies
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Return on Investment
Commvault
  • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
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Dell Technologies
  • When you get into the deep dive of features there is quite a learning curve for those options so it's a lot to learn.
  • Restores and restore verification is very fast so you save some time there.
  • Costs are fairly high so an ROI may take some time vs a standard backup software.
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