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."Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"It is a very complete product."
"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"The deduplication feature is the best aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"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."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"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."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"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."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
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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