Veeam Data Cloud for Azure vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Veeam Data Cloud supports Azure resilience, combining SaaS-based backup with built-in immutability and automated management. Purpose-built for cloud workloads, it unifies organizations' data protection strategy into a solution that simplifies recovery, secures critical data against threats, and keeps costs clear and predictable. One platform, full coverage: Policy-automated protection that's purpose-built for Azure and unified with other apps, services and data. Resilient by…N/A
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
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VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.N/A
Pricing
Veeam Data Cloud for AzureVMware Cloud Director
Editions & Modules
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure
42 per TB
BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
VUL Portable licensing
Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Veeam Data Cloud for AzureVMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Veeam Data Cloud for AzureVMware Cloud Director
Features
Veeam Data Cloud for AzureVMware Cloud Director
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
8.3
38 Ratings
3% below category average
VMware Cloud Director
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Ratings
Management dashboard8.938 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options8.038 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
9.0
22 Ratings
12% above category average
VMware Cloud Director
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Ratings
Malware protection9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
8.3
32 Ratings
4% below category average
VMware Cloud Director
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Ratings
SaaS Product Integration9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options7.027 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises9.030 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Veeam Data Cloud for AzureVMware Cloud Director
Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10

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Enterprises
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10

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User Ratings
Veeam Data Cloud for AzureVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(39 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(38 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Veeam Data Cloud for AzureVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
Veeam Software
For our purposes I can't particularly find any shortcomings of Veeam Backup for Azure. It has been working well for our needs for a few years now. Maybe for someone with a larger cloud footprint or more complex needs, or maybe someone who wants to be able to deploy and configure the appliance using infrastructure as code it may not be as practical.
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VMware by Broadcom
If you have a lot of customers that all need to have a separate place to work in, without the possibility of getting in each other way, and you want to safe yourself a lot of work. Than I strongly recommend you Cloud director. Ofcourse, only if you have a VMware environment as your working environment. If you just have a small group of customers and you can easily handle the work that's coming from it, then it is overkill to add cloud director to your environment. In a later station, you can always introduce cloud director (so tis never to late if you still want to use it)
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Pros
Veeam Software
  • Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
  • Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
  • Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Building virtual racks
  • Managing the customers' network and security
  • Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
  • Integration with major software providers
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Cons
Veeam Software
  • Documentation around service account permissions was a little sparse when we implemented it
  • It's sometimes hard to get the reason behind a (rare) job failure without going into logs
  • The UI around snapshots and backups could do with some clarity around the restore points that will be available
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VMware by Broadcom
  • The add-on/extension required on the internet browser sometimes are difficult to get working at first. We've experience instances where the add-on/extension latest versions will not work and have to downgrade to an older version.
  • The server console lacks features and tools. For example it would be useful to have a copy and paste tool or a file upload tool.
  • The vCloud Director management site uses Adobe Flash, which makes it impossible to use on a mobile device.
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Likelihood to Renew
Veeam Software
Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it.
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VMware by Broadcom
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Usability
Veeam Software
It was so easy that you thought it wasn't working. Once you saw data and was able to recover it or do a restore with the product those beliefs in the system went to the roof. Once you get a product that does everything you want it to do, you will give it it's props.
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VMware by Broadcom
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Support Rating
Veeam Software
Great support team!
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VMware by Broadcom
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Alternatives Considered
Veeam Software
Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more secure process than saving to the external hard drives with Backup Exec.
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VMware by Broadcom
vCloud Director is definitely my favorite as far as cloud managers. The only thing that compares is Cisco UCS Director, but it has slightly different functionality and purpose. I understand why a lot of clients still go with vCloud Director even though VMware intends to sunset it
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Return on Investment
Veeam Software
  • We have had fast recovery of documents when needed; sub 10 minutes from start of restore to complete and in the users hands
  • Easily a value add for backing up files outside of the given Microsoft retention period; piece of mind
  • Easy tool to use with minimal training required to use it and set up backups
  • When you do change your cloud licensing it does require manual intervention to update backup data requirements. if the business makes changes then your backup person may not know to make these changes
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VMware by Broadcom
  • Saves a lot of time, and time is money
  • Stable, so little to non downtime
  • With P1 , good support
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