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."Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"The solution is very stable."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"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."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"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."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
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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