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 product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"It is a good backup tool."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"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."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."
"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."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"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."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 68 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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