NetApp SnapCenter Backup Management vs. SolarWinds Task Factory

It's great to test and develop new applications. Terrific to identify new and discover networks. Excellent with cost tracking and asset management. Intuitive user interface.

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Since I started working with this great tool all data analysis programs have been running effectively. Implementation of projects and tasks have been effective and reliable. Data collected from each department gives us working plan on better management of various programs. The Dimension Merge SCD Transform helps us to load large volumes of data within a short period of time.

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• VM backup via volume NetApp SnapCenter Backup Management
• It can be used in DB aware backup
• Provide quick data restoration

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• The single most beneficial component to Task Factory is the Upsert component. If you're familiar with writing MERGE statements in T-SQL, you'll appreciate the Upsert component. Drag the component into your Data Flow and a few clicks later you have a MERGE without the code complexities.
• Where some native SSIS components leave you wanting more, Task Factory extends on many of these components as well as support for data sources not native to SSIS components.
• The number of extra components that come in the Task Factory tool kit will expand your tool belt to do just about anything you need or want to accomplish in SSIS.

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• integration with other backup solutions
• ease of management
• The interface needs to be improved

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• It was built by Pragmatic Works who sold it to SentryOne and now Solar Winds, concerned about future support. SolarWinds is discontinuing support for related products such as BiXpress.
• Had issues with connecting to certain versions of SQL Server - would fail when deploying one package - had to deploy the entire solutions.
• Occasional random failures observed with the Filter tranform.

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Task Factory has become a key product for our use of doing ETL work in SSIS. Their custom SSIS components allow us to work simply on the data engineering side of things. We can ignore the lower level work needed to connect to disparate data sources. This allows us to work faster and provide more value to the business

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It's faster and more secure with data with high-level security layers.

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Compared to some of the other transformations I have worked with, it really is pretty simple for the type of functionality you get

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For its efficiency with database backup and recovery.

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Overall, the best vendor we currently have on the data side of the house. No issues, issues are resolved very quickly and upgrades go without any issues.

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Overall it went smoothly. Had a couple of gotchas with licensing and upgrading but nothing that really stopped us.

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If the size of the VM is somewhere 10TB, the Commvault will take more than 24 hours to take a full file-level backup. At the same time, NetApp SnapCenter Backup Management will take a few seconds

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ZappySys is an alternative provider that we tested. However, we found the ease of use, set up and installation to be much simplier and quicker using Task Factory. ZappySys has a number of the same connectors but are more difficult to setup and the GUI is not as intuitive and simple to use.

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It's done a magnificent job with failover and repair of the database.

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• Not calculated anything yet
• Saves of engineer effort
• The solution saves our time

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• We were able to support our developers with Task Factory features and reduce the development time by 40%.
• Recently Task Factory has changed their pricing module and it seems to be pretty costly for our process. Our business team has started to evaluate whether this is worth it going forward.

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