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."
"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."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."
"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"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."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"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 interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The flexibility is very good."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"The solution should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"The client caches and deduplication system have a few problems."
"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."
"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."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"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)."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"The pricing could be improved."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
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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