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 backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"Avamar has long been the best in its class, but that's changing as new solutions emerge. However, Dell has traditionally been a leader in deduplication and compression. Avamar enabled us to shift data from on-premise local appliances to data centers and multi-tenant infrastructure. That's a powerful feature. because customers can back up to the cloud without upgrading o high-capacity links or congesting their backups."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"The solution is very stable."
"It is a very complete product."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"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."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"It's an expensive solution."
"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."
"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."
"Its ability to back up very large objects can be improved. In terms of new features, they can include the ability to use cloud services, like S3, more natively."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"Dell EMC Avamar is a very complex product. It took a lot of time for the IT admins to get trained on how to use it. It is not very user-friendly, and we won't be using Avamar anymore. It needs a lot of improvement in terms of how the backups have been configured, and the reporting is too complex."
"The solution should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"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."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
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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