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 stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"It is a very complete product."
"The product is good for backups."
"The solution is very stable."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"The solution scales well."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"It is a scalable product."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"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 solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"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 should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"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."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
"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."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
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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