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."Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"The solution scales well."
"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"The setup is very easy."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"It allows our Windows and Unix teams to have a centralized point to share data between the two."
"Data consolidation and visualization."
"The solution is stable."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"The most valuable feature is SnapMirror."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"The UI is not easy to use. There are other products such as Veeam that are easy to use for the end-user which is why they are moving away from Avamar or Networker."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"NetApp FAS Series could improve by being more secure."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"The product must support more drives."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"Currently, the newest release is not HCI friendly."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"There is no NetApp infrastructure set up here in Greece."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 97 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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