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 entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"Client deduplication."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"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."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"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 support is very bad."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
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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