We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veritas NetBackup Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"The utilization of Data Domain is crucial because of its integration with a key Veritas feature: retention lock. This feature ensures data integrity by preventing any alterations to stored data. When NetBackup interacts with Data Domain, enabling the retention lock feature ensures that neither administrators nor backup personnel can modify data stored within the system. This functionality is vital for compliance purposes and meets the requirements of auditors."
"The initial setup gets easier the more you do it."
"The product enables me to recover the information of the appliances in the organization."
"The most valuable features of Veritas NetBackup Appliance are the ease of use and the familiar interface."
"We can add multiple appliances to the product."
"The most valuable feature of the Veritas NetBackup Appliance is the virtual machine backups."
"We have good data backup coverage."
"The intelligent policies feature is used in order to protect the VMware infrastructure. One of the things that makes a big difference for our company is the usage of these intelligence policies. The system automatically provides extra protection for any VMware server application or service. From a backup administrator's point of view, this is what we call peace of mind. It reduces the workload and therefore reduces resources needed from the company."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"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."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"The scalability could be improved."
"It's hard to get to the backups. There are too many tabs."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance could improve the configuration, it could be more user-friendly."
"It would be a better solution if we were able to make more reports in regards to the backup system."
"The tool's pricing is expensive and could be lower."
"Technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"The challenge arose due to a space issue. The issue was related to disk breaks, especially when power cuts occurred. One of the disks would break, leading to a loss of functionality."
"They could simplify the process of installing, and provide more space for data during the process."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 6th in Deduplication Software with 47 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". 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 Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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