We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Dell Avamar based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Backup nudges ahead of Dell Avamar in this comparison. Azure Backup is a secure, stable solution that users trust. The connectivity to data is very reliable. Dell Avamar can be a bit clunky, takes up a lot of resources, and the overall performance is a bit slow.
"Our client’s infrastructure is protected by the tool."
"We are happy with this product and have not found any issues while using it."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is easy to create a backup by using Azure Backup. It also has a good user interface and nice features for sending notifications when any backup fails or there is a change in the status of virtual machines."
"Setting up Azure Backup is straightforward and the total deployment time was about a month."
"The tool has a lot of features."
"It's easy to deploy."
"The deployment process is quite easy in Azure."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"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."
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."
"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."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"The extensibility onto hybrid environments needs a bit of tweaking for those on-prem."
"The support for Office365 backup is atrocious and is something that has to be improved."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"The product could improve its performance."
"It can be further improved by continuously meeting its compliance requirements."
"The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes."
"Lacks an AI system that would enable easier upgrading of the hardware."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". 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". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Druva Phoenix, whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and DD Boost. See our Azure Backup vs. Dell Avamar report.
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