We compared Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, both Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager have been praised for their efficient data backup and recovery capabilities, user-friendly interfaces, and reliable performance. Dell Avamar is known for its strong customer service and support, while Dell PowerProtect Data Manager stands out for its seamless integration with existing systems and robust security measures. However, Dell Avamar could benefit from enhancements in its user interface and performance, while Dell PowerProtect Data Manager users have suggested improvements for a more intuitive interface and better documentation and support resources. Additionally, both products have been recognized for their reasonable pricing, setup cost, and flexible licensing options.
Features: Dell Avamar is praised for its efficient deduplication, excellent backup and recovery, and user-friendly interface. On the other hand, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager offers seamless integration, advanced analytics and reporting, robust security, and excellent customer support.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Dell Avamar is considered competitive and reasonable, while users find it relatively straightforward and hassle-free. On the other hand, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is positively received for its pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Users describe its setup cost as straightforward and hassle-free, with no complaints about high costs., Dell Avamar enhances data backup and recovery efficiency, improves storage efficiency, and offers scalability. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager streamlines data protection and recovery, optimizes data management efforts, and reduces business downtime.
Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar could benefit from enhancements in user interface and performance. Users need a more intuitive interface, faster backup and restore, better documentation, and technical support. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager needs an intuitive interface, better documentation, increased compatibility, improved performance, and reliability.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for Dell Avamar mention varying durations for implementation, with some users taking three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. On the other hand, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager reviews also mention the same time durations, suggesting that the terms "deployment" and "setup" may refer to the same period for this product., Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service and support provided by both Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. However, Dell Avamar's team has been described as helpful, responsive, and efficient, while Dell PowerProtect Data Manager's support is praised for its smooth experience and promptness.
The summary above is based on 27 interviews we conducted recently with Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."
"I found the most valuable features of Dell Avamar are the user-friendly interface and ease to use. Our clients have administrated this software and there is no additional training required."
"Client deduplication."
"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."
"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."
"It's a good solution."
"The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."
"The deduplication is the most valuable feature because it helps to control the overhead."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution adequately handles data storage."
"I would say flexibility is the most important feature of the product. The performance and speed are the best on the market."
"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."
"One notable feature is its robust backup support for Kubernetes and container environments. Additionally, PPDM stands out for its ease of deployment and management compared to other backup solutions. It is highly user-friendly, allowing users to quickly learn and implement backup and restore processes within a week. PPDM represents the next generation of backup software and is comparable to offerings from other vendors. Furthermore, PPDM prioritizes security with various access controls, such as user and database access controls. Its deployment tool is also known for its simplicity."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."
"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"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."
"Management is difficult and it is hard to determine when things aren't working properly."
"As a new product, there are some things that still need to improve a bit as it matures."
"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."
"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."
"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."
"There is always room for improvement. The compression ratio should be improved as well as the efficiency."
"The interface is too complex."
"PPDM requires further development. It is primarily integrated with DevOps systems."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is rated 7.8. 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 Dell PowerProtect Data Manager writes "A tool that offers good capacity management and product management". Dell Avamar is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Rubrik. See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager report.
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