We performed a comparison between Asigra and Dell Avamar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."
"The setup is very easy."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"The management could be a bit better."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"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 product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"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."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"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."
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Asigra is ranked 58th 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). See our Asigra vs. Dell Avamar report.
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