We performed a comparison between Asigra and Dell Avamar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The solution has been very stable."
"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."
"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."
"I have found all the features useful in the solution."
"Avamar has long been the best in its class, but that's changing as new solutions emerge. However, Dell has traditionally been a leader in deduplication and compression. Avamar enabled us to shift data from on-premise local appliances to data centers and multi-tenant infrastructure. That's a powerful feature. because customers can back up to the cloud without upgrading o high-capacity links or congesting their backups."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"The client caches and deduplication system have a few problems."
"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."
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Asigra is ranked 57th in Backup and Recovery while Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Asigra is rated 8.2, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Asigra writes "Automated notifications work much better than other solutions we've employed, and the ability to add usage reports to invoices through DS-Billing is a very useful feature". 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". Asigra is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, 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).
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