We performed a comparison between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Networker based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dell EMC Avamar wins out in this comparison due to its robust performance as well as its impressive data reduction and deduplication abilities. In addition, Dell EMC Avamar received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"The stability is okay."
"It is a very complete product."
"It's simple to configure."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"Dell Avamar has a push upgrade feature that lets you simultaneously push updates to thousands of clients. I also found the self-service part of Dell Avamar helpful."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"Very user-friendly with a good interface."
"The most valuable feature of Dell NetWorker is its quick configuration and handling of large databases."
"The best feature is the DR replication for us."
"The support for legacy products is very good."
"The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication."
"The extensive information provided on tool properties has been very useful, specifically the information on databases"
"The solution is very user-friendly. After setting up five machines for our customers we teach them how to set up the agent and start doing their backups. It is very easy for them once they see how to do it, they like to do it on their own."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"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."
"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."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."
"The deduplication needs improvement and it could use better integration."
"Reporting templates could be easier to understand and more comprehensive."
"Dell NetWorker could improve the GUI to include rack recovery."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"The product should provide integration with AWS."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"The management of Dell Networker is quite cumbersome."
"The user interface of this solution could be improved. It is not user friendly and is difficult to understand for new users. New users struggle to understand the logic."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker 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 NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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