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 integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"The deduplication feature is the best aspect of the solution."
"Dell Avamar has a push upgrade feature that lets you simultaneously push updates to thousands of clients. I also found the self-service part of Dell Avamar helpful."
"I found the most valuable features of Dell Avamar are the user-friendly interface and ease to use. Our clients have administrated this software and there is no additional training required."
"The solution is very stable."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"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."
"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."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"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."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"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."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
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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