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 fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"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."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"It's a good solution."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"The solution is very stable."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"It is a scalable product."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"It is a good backup tool."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"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."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The pricing could be improved."
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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