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."Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"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."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"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."
"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."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"The file sharing feature is most valuable."
"Snapshot, deduplication, and compression features are valuable."
"The solution has tiers inside which means we do not only need to use SSDs."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"The solution is very stable and reliable"
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"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."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"Technical support needs to be improved, as there are no longer partners in our country."
"I would like to see less latency and higher IOPS."
"Dedicated storage efficiency accelerators could improve the overall performance of the system."
"I think this kind of infrastructure is mostly obsolete. To keep up with developments in this space, you need to move all these features to an All-Flash solution."
"It's not a cheap system. It is very expensive. The pricing has been ridiculous every time that we had to renew the support."
"NetApp FAS Series should introduce an FTP application for the broadcast and post-production market."
"The solution's configuration is not flexible."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
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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