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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    N2WS Backup & Recovery

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AN2WS Backup & Recovery is a lightweight tool built to integrate into any enterprise AWS environment.

    $199

    per month

    Pricing
    Microsoft System CenterN2WS Backup & Recovery
    Editions & Modules
    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
    Basic
    $199
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft System CenterN2WS Backup & Recovery
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft System CenterN2WS Backup & Recovery
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Microsoft System CenterN2WS Backup & Recovery
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Microsoft System Center and N2WS Backup & Recovery
    Feature
    Microsoft System Center
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    Ratings
    N2WS Backup & Recovery
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft System CenterN2WS Backup & Recovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Microsoft System CenterN2WS Backup & Recovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
    Incentivized
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    N2WS Backup & Recovery is well suited for backing up aws and aws related services and workloads. The backup management is very easier using N2WS backup and recovery, restores are also fast and N2WS Backup & Recovery provides option to restore to different regions as well and that helps in Disaster recovery kind of testing scenarios
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
    Incentivized
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    • Faster Backup
    • Faster restores
    • Easier BackupManagement
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    • GUI can be improved
    • Physical and Vmware servers backup
    • Complexity of permissions
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
    Incentivized
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    For AWS based workloads N2WS Backup & Recovery suited best comparing the features and compatibility from the compared applications for backup testing. N2WS Backup & Recovery implementation is also faster and easy to setup. Restores is faster and also provided options to recover to different regions which is not available with the other backup applications at a easy level
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
    Incentivized
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    N2W Software, Inc.
    • Easier management
    • Faster restores
    Incentivized
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