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 performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"The product is good for backups."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"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."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"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."
"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
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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