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 most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"The stability is okay."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"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 solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"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."
"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."
"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 product could offer more integration capabilities."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"The support is very bad."
"Its ability to back up very large objects can be improved. In terms of new features, they can include the ability to use cloud services, like S3, more natively."
"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"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."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
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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