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."
"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."
"It's simple to configure."
"The stability is okay."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."
"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."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"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."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
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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