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 integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"The stability is okay."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"Dell Avamar has a push upgrade feature that lets you simultaneously push updates to thousands of clients. I also found the self-service part of Dell Avamar helpful."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"The product's most valuable feature is scalability."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The support is very bad."
"It's an expensive solution."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"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."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"The pricing could be improved."
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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