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."Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The UI is not easy to use. There are other products such as Veeam that are easy to use for the end-user which is why they are moving away from Avamar or Networker."
"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."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"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."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"Maybe they could improve reporting capabilities and predictions."
"Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
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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