Microsoft System Center vs. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft System Center
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft System Center Suite is a family of IT management software for network monitoring, updating and patching, endpoint protection with anti-malware, data protection and backup, ITIL- structured IT service management, remote administration and more. It is available in two editions: standard and datacenter. Datacenter provides unlimited virtualization for high density private clouds, while standard is for lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads.
$1,323
per month
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
Pricing
Microsoft System CenterVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Editions & Modules
Standard Edition
$1323
Datacenter Edition
$3607
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft System CenterVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft System Center
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Ratings
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
9.1
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings9.25 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings9.35 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft System CenterVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(21 ratings)
9.2
(5 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.2
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft System CenterVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
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.
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Veeam Software
We use it as a Simple Deployment. As a simple deployment scenario, the roles of the backup server, VMware backup proxy, and backup repository are assigned to a single machine. These roles are assigned automatically to the machine where we installed Veeam Backup & Replication. The drawback of the simple deployment scenario is that only the backup server handles and stores all data which is a single point of failure.
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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.
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Veeam Software
  • File level restore
  • Backing up of difficult Laptops that are in and off the network
  • Reporting
  • Integration into other Veeam Products
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Needs web based storefront for requesting new software
  • Needs ability to manage the packaging work flow better
  • Sometimes is slow to download and there is no indication the entire catalog is being loaded, resulting in confused users not being able to find common software in the available list.
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Veeam Software
  • Stop the backup job from the console instead of having to stop from the client.
  • Don't consume too many resources while taking a backup.
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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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Veeam Software
Overall, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a great backup solution and supplies extremely useful tools to configure backups to suite our needs and our clients requirements. I have only taken some points off as the user interface could be easier to navigate when configuring backups and the ability to update Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows from within the software would be appreciated.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
If I had to dislike something about the system it would be how much it changes once you upgrade. This could be more of a problem of mine since I get used to one way and don't like it when it changes so much. I am enjoying the newest update, but it is a mess when you are actually going through the upgrades.
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Veeam Software
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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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Veeam Software
Veeam is just on another level compared to most other software vendors who tend to make backup solutions complicated. Veeam uses intuitive GUI's that make sense to most people and take the stress out of systems recovery at high and low levels by simply explaining the process step by step.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • We have been able to automate our patch management, firmware and other security concerns.
  • We have a standardized "image" ensuring our setup is consistent across the enterprise. This alone has saved us in time to support and time to understand how to use our desktops.
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Veeam Software
  • It allows end users to easily self-serve their own file restores, freeing up IT resources
  • It provides a seamless DR solution for the resources it backs up
  • It frequently take a long time to resolve problems when they do occur
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