We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and INFINIDAT InfiniGuard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."
"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 solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"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."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is ranked 63rd in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is rated 10.0. 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 INFINIDAT InfiniGuard writes "Fast data recovery for large scale datasets". 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 INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is most compared with Quantum DXi Series, Cohesity DataProtect and Quest NetVault.
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