We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: When searching for the best Backup and Recovery Software solution, PeerSpot users feel Veeam Backup & Replication is the best choice. Veeam offers great integrations, scales easily, is very easy to use and is very cost-effective. Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"The stability is okay."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The product is good for backups."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"I have found the backup call feature very good."
"Strong performance with a high level of compatibility."
"Good compression when storing data."
"WAN Accelerator helps tremendously with replicating our data because we have a large chunk of data that gets replicated between our two facilities."
"The solution just works consistently. I never have issues with it."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be the new CDP features. It is very popular for my customer's needs."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"I'm pleased with the ability to search for documents; it's very useful."
"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"Backup image browse times should be faster."
"The price is an issue. If one has a large number of servers, say... 100-plus, and wishes to add more, an exhausted budget may hinder this ability."
"Occasionally, in the course of upgrading one's virtualization platform, the backup can be ruined."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"Add an archive option to support legal obligations."
"The direct SAN backup integration can be perfected by improving the snapshot removal mechanism and process from the storage volumes."
"When you have some small issues, you should be able to go through it by yourself and solve the issue instead of opening the ticket and waiting for the engineers to troubleshoot."
"Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved."
"There's a situation where VMs run on different locks. It's running on the VM while having a relationship with nearby solutions running on the same server and storage. This creates a bottleneck that needs to be eliminated."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Arcserve UDP. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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