We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veritas Backup Exec 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."The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The solution is very stable."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."
"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 of Avamar would have to be the way it works over needing very little bandwidth to move data across a WAN or LAN."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"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 UI is not easy to use. There are other products such as Veeam that are easy to use for the end-user which is why they are moving away from Avamar or Networker."
"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."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. 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 Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". 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 Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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