We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Oracle Data Guard 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."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."
"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."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"Avamar has long been the best in its class, but that's changing as new solutions emerge. However, Dell has traditionally been a leader in deduplication and compression. Avamar enabled us to shift data from on-premise local appliances to data centers and multi-tenant infrastructure. That's a powerful feature. because customers can back up to the cloud without upgrading o high-capacity links or congesting their backups."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"The most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."
"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."
"Oracle Data Guard has a nice feature called the DataGuard snapshot to open the solution in the read-write mode and make some changes to the database."
"One of the most valuable features is real-time replication. The version we're using is reliable and easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes."
"We have found the replication feature the most useful. We use this feature the most. The ability to recover a database with less effort and the use of Oracle Data Guard Broker to administer the complete environment are also very useful features."
"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."
"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."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"They may need to include the monitoring and the alerting part in Data Guard."
"I think it would be great to have a graphical interface assistant (like DBCA, ASMCA, NETCA, etc.) for initial configuration, monitoring, configuring Oracle Data Guard Broker and all the Data Guard Broker commands, without needing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed."
"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."
"It is a rather complex solution, so it could be more user-friendly."
"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."
"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."
"Oracle Data Guard is stable, but you need to keep monitoring the system all the time. You need to keep monitoring the archives."
"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. 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 Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss". 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 Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Delphix. See our Dell Avamar vs. Oracle Data Guard report.
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