We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and OpenText Data Protector based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's stable and offers good performance."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"Client deduplication."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"The setup is very easy."
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"The product is good for backups."
"The command-line interface is user-friendly and well documented in the reference guide."
"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."
"I have used Micro Focus Data Protector for the file backup facilities. My primary use of the software is to backup file data."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution allows us to be able to backup and exchange directly, to backup Microsoft exchange."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"It's a good product that's pretty easy to use."
"Data Protector's granular recovery features make it easy for us to create and restore backups in an understandable and user-friendly manner. With granular recovery, any database or even just a database table can be restored at will."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."
"Dell EMC Avamar is a very complex product. It took a lot of time for the IT admins to get trained on how to use it. It is not very user-friendly, and we won't be using Avamar anymore. It needs a lot of improvement in terms of how the backups have been configured, and the reporting is too complex."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The scheduler setup could be better. We are facing some issues scheduling the job based on our requirements."
"Faster VEAgent Restores"
"Microfocus needs to build a partnership with other vendors in addition to HPE as far as cloud consolidation of backups."
"The GUI could be updated. The GUI hasn't changed since version 6. It's on version 10 now. The reporting could also be better. Also, while Data Protector is excellent for backing up physical hardware, it needs more features for backing up VM images because many environments use hypervisor."
"It's very expensive compared to Veeam and other similar solutions."
"I do not think that this solution is relevant in the current IT market. They have not upgraded their features and functionalities which makes it difficult for them to remain competitive."
"We faced some certification issues after we upgraded to version 10.2."
"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."
Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. 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 OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". 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 OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, Symantec Data Loss Prevention and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell Avamar vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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