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.
"The most valuable feature of Avamar would have to be the way it works over needing very little bandwidth to move data across a WAN or LAN."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"The solution is very stable."
"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"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."
"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."
"Reliable storage solution with an easy setup. It has high availability and makes single file restoration easy. It also has good stability and scalability."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"It is good to have a unified storage where you can have block and file level protocols."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"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."
"Using the built-in Snapshots and SnapMirror technology, we were able to have better working data protection locally and off-site."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"The support is very good."
"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"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."
"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."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"With scalability, we feel the system is limited."
"Interfacing with the cloud environment could be better. I want to be able to move some cloud volume and integrate it seamlessly with my home on-premise storage. Sometimes I have issues with port permissions. NetApp probably needs to improve more on the integration side from on-premise to the cloud."
"When getting new hardware, always tell the account manager that you are also considering other brands. They will be forced to adjust the price lower."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"Needs to improve the adaptive storage quality of service."
"Cluster mode needs to be more ubiquitous."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
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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