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."It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"It is a very complete product."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"The reporting should be improved, as we currently have to use another tool for that purpose."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"The recovery is a bit slow."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"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."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
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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