We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and NetApp FAS Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software 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."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Avamar has long been the best in its class, but that's changing as new solutions emerge. However, Dell has traditionally been a leader in deduplication and compression. Avamar enabled us to shift data from on-premise local appliances to data centers and multi-tenant infrastructure. That's a powerful feature. because customers can back up to the cloud without upgrading o high-capacity links or congesting their backups."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"I found the most valuable features of Dell Avamar are the user-friendly interface and ease to use. Our clients have administrated this software and there is no additional training required."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"A reliable and easily managed storage system is a key performance factor. The system also has more features than we require."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The replication feature is noteworthy because it's faster than most and it uses little bandwidth. Then there's the friendly interface that the equipment offers. With this interface, it is very easy to manage."
"For us, the greatest aspect of the solution is the fact that it just runs. It is amazingly resilient. That's very important to us, because we are basically, with some exceptions, have a 24/7 operation."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"Avamar needs a greater emphasis on storage targets. If it's going to keep pace with the times, it needs more ability to leverage cloud storage."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"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 solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"We're supposed to have used NetApp FAS Series for replication, but then one of the nodes failed, and then it's taken us some time to bring it up."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern, so from an improvement perspective, the tool needs to be made cheaper."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"It may need more flexibility to fight with other competing arrays."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"Installation of the additional switches and ETP could be improved."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". 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 NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell Avamar vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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