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 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."
"The solution has been very stable."
"It's a good solution."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"The solution scales well."
"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"The initial setup is easy."
"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."
"The management could be a bit better."
"Avamar needs a greater emphasis on storage targets. If it's going to keep pace with the times, it needs more ability to leverage cloud storage."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"It's an expensive solution."
"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."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
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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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