We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Dell Avamar 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 is easy to configure."
"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"It's simple to set up."
"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"The recovery part of the product is very good."
"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."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"It's a good solution."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."
"I had an issue with Arcserve UDP during the failover and the secondary machine didn't get back online, even though it ran automatically. I faced the issue during a crisis situation. However, I haven't faced such a problem again."
"We are looking at scaling up to the cloud and using immutable copies on the cloud. Arcserve UDP 8.0 does have the immutable feature supporting AWS, but I'm looking for multi-cloud support. So, I'm waiting for Arcserve to release that in the next release."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"The initial setup was complex."
"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."
"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."
"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"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 solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec, whereas 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). See our Arcserve UDP vs. Dell Avamar report.
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