We compared Dell Avamar and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Dell Avamar earns acclaim for its scalability, data compression capabilities, swift incremental backups, and seamless integration with Data Domain and VM stacks. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Dell Avamar could improve its tape connectivity and bare-metal restoration. Users also requested better Azure backups and a more user-friendly interface. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: Some customers express satisfaction with Dell support, but others said there is room for improvement. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: Opinions on Dell Avamar’s setup were mixed. Some users found it to be straightforward, while others considered it complex and difficult. Deployment time ranged from a few hours to a week, and assistance from Dell engineers might be necessary. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: Dell Avamar’s pricing is generally seen as reasonable, but some users think it is expensive. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Dell Avamar provides cost savings through data reduction, deduplication, and compression. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: Dell Avamar is a scalable solution that offers excellent data compression and fast compression. However, Avamar earned mixed reviews for support, deployment, and pricing. Users also requested better Azure and bare-metal backups and restoration capabilities. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"It is a very complete product."
"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"The product is good for protecting very low-budget offices, whereas other solutions fail in terms of cost and footprint of the VMs involved."
"It can be quickly configured via web pages."
"Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure."
"Technical support responds very quickly."
"The ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"The ability to use a variety of cloud providers rather than being tied into one is a huge bonus."
"The easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"Nakivo gives users confidence in knowing that if something happens with their application server, exchange server, or other applications, they can recover it easily and quickly."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"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 would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"In the future, the solution should provide a more granular backup."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"The process for getting unused diskspace back from the data repository is slow."
"The only thing we have encountered that we would like to see improved in the future are error messages. They could be more detailed and helpful, without the need to send logs to support. Failing that, the part of the log related to the error could be displayed alongside the error message, so I can investigate the error without looking through all of those logs that I'm able to download."
"We'd like to see a legacy environment backup, like AIX, etc."
"Space is always an issue."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto. See our Dell Avamar vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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