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."For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"The solution is very stable."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"Client deduplication."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"In the global business world, Veritas has a very good name. I think they have a good solid product, and they are always trying to improve it, and update it. ;They know what the client actually needs, and they are up to the challenge of satisfying those needs."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"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."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"Avamar needs a greater emphasis on storage targets. If it's going to keep pace with the times, it needs more ability to leverage cloud storage."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"The reporting should be improved, as we currently have to use another tool for that purpose."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
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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