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."Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"It's simple to configure."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"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 product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"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."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"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."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
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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