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."I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"Client deduplication."
"The stability is okay."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"It's an expensive solution."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"The support is very bad."
"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."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"The UI is not easy to use. There are other products such as Veeam that are easy to use for the end-user which is why they are moving away from Avamar or Networker."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to 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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