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 product is good for backups."
"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 solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"It's a good solution."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"Client deduplication."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"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 doesn't support the AIX platform."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 68 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, 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 and Commvault Cloud. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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