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"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application.""The most valuable feature is the virtual backup.""The product is very powerful and offers very good performance.""The setup is very easy.""The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion.""The source site replication feature is valuable.""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.""We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."

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"Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."

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Cons
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better.""More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications.""Backup image browse times should be faster.""The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items.""The product could be improved by simplifying the components available.""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.""We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup.""The reporting should be improved, as we currently have to use another tool for that purpose."

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"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is very expensive. It's a trust based licensing. So that's an ethical challenge."
  • "This solution is less expensive than Veeam for us, although it depends on the customer because we get a great discount."
  • "I'm not sure, but perhaps the pricing could be done better at the moment."
  • "The price is the main thing I'd like to see them change. If they can come down in price, that would be a good thing. It's very cost competitive in the entry level range, because Veeam pricing is much cheaper than Avamar."
  • "It was approximately $70-80,000 when it was under support, but right now EMC has not been supporting this product for two years."
  • "Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."
  • "When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."
  • "The price of this product should be lower."
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    Overview

    Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

    If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

    Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

    InfiniGuard provides fast, reliable data backup and restore for business continuity/disaster recovery. Built with InfiniBox to optimize performance and target-side dedupe to maximize effective capacity for multi-petabyte datasets.

    Sample Customers
    Dodge County, St Laurence's College, FieldCore (a GE Company), Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Getronics, Lewisville Independent School District, EnvisionRxOptions, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is ranked 60th in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is rated 10.0. 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 INFINIDAT InfiniGuard writes "Fast data recovery for large scale datasets". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is most compared with Quantum DXi Series, Cohesity DataProtect and Quest NetVault.

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