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 most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"The product is good for backups."
"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 performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"The support is very bad."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"The recovery is a bit slow."
"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."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"The client caches and deduplication system have a few problems."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
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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