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 solution scales well."
"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."
"The product is good for backups."
"The setup is very easy."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"The stability is okay."
"It works quickly and is very stable."
"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The flexibility is very good."
"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."
"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."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The solution should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"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."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"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."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
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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