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."Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."
"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."
"It is a very complete product."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"It's simple to configure."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"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 solution should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"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."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
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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