COMPETITIVE BATTLECARD – Veritas Internal & Registered Partners

NetBackup 8.1 vs Veeam Availability Suite 9.5

VEEAM OVERVIEW ANALYST (GARTNER) VIEWPOINT COMPETITOR CLAIMS

“Availability for the Always-On Enterprise” STRENGTHS Veeam Claim: Veritas is Legacy Backup
Veeam offers rich functionality and many simple
“205,000 Customers & 11.8M VMs Protected and recovery options for the VMware and Hyper-V Veritas Response: FALSE! Veritas has been
Counting” environment. protecting Virtual Machines for nearly a decade; in
the same (agentless) fashion as Veeam. NetBackup
HQ: Baar, Switzerland Veeam continues to stand out with numerous has been protecting ~65M TB of mission critical data
agentless VM recovery options and unique on disk, tape & cloud for nearly 20 years.
Website: www.veeam.com functions to overcome hypervisor-native
limitations. Experience matters!
For the last several years, Veeam has been — and
MARKET SHARE / REVENUE continues to be — one of the fastest-growing NETBACKUP SILVER BULLETS
companies in the backup industry.
Market Share: Revenue: 360 Data Management – Integration into Data
CAUTIONS
Veritas: 23.5% Veritas: $1.425B Insight & Availability Solutions
Veeam: 9.5% Veeam: $576M Several customer references noted that pricing
options and license management need to be NetBackup is the King of Scale – Ability to
CONVERSATION STARTERS improved, as Veeam's street pricing is often no protect 1000s of VMs
Q: Do you need a single solution to protect your longer competitive.
virtual, physical & cloud infrastructure? Single-click support for 40+ public cloud
While daily management and recovery are providers (vs private cloud only from Veeam)
straightforward, proper sizing and configuration at
A: Veeam is purpose-built for virtual environments the deployment phase may need extra attention, as
with limited support for physical systems and public Unified console with NBU vs. 12+ separate point
the change rate for VMs is often higher than many products to manage
cloud. NetBackup supports virtual, physical and 40+ account for.
public cloud providers from a single console.
Veeam has only just begun officially supporting Global – Localized UI because the world speaks
Q: Is Data Deduplication important? physical server environments and has yet to fully more than just English
integrate or prove these capabilities.
A: Veeam’s deduplication is on a “per job” basis, Minimize RTO – Fast Granular Restores from VM
which can result in bloated back-end storage due to Backups with NBU
redundant data being protected across multiple Note: Gartner also says that “Veeam's pricing has
VMs. NetBackup’s global block-level dedupe First to Market – Zero Day Support for vSphere
become less competitive and less flexible than some
consumes less back-end storage across virtual, 6.5 and Windows 2016
key competitors'.
physical and cloud; regardless of where data
resides.

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Last Updated – September 2017