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."We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"The solution is very stable."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"The most valuable features are the NAS features and NetApp's excellent support."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The storage efficiency provided a maximum savings in our storage utilization."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is the snapshot and the FlexClone for Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Additionally, the integration can be done with most all on-premise and cloud providers."
"It's a stable product. No issues there."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"One of the most valuable features offered is double-parity RAID, which guarantees that your data will stay intact. We're also able to provision storage and monitor which ones are really consuming storage."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"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 screen design is a bit back-dated."
"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."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"It could be more flexible in terms of configuration."
"The NetApp FAS Series is not as high-performing and is not as fast. Its speed needs improvement, but this could only be done if it's an all-flash solution."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"The AutoSupport could be improved to be more proactive in certain cases."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
Dell Avamar is ranked 4th in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 96 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, 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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