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 is very stable."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The solution scales well."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"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."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"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."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"It is a scalable product."
"It's an expensive solution."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"Avamar needs a greater emphasis on storage targets. If it's going to keep pace with the times, it needs more ability to leverage cloud storage."
"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."
"The client caches and deduplication system have a few problems."
"Dell EMC Avamar is a very complex product. It took a lot of time for the IT admins to get trained on how to use it. It is not very user-friendly, and we won't be using Avamar anymore. It needs a lot of improvement in terms of how the backups have been configured, and the reporting is too complex."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"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."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, 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 and Commvault Cloud. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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