We performed a comparison between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Networker based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dell EMC Avamar wins out in this comparison due to its robust performance as well as its impressive data reduction and deduplication abilities. In addition, Dell EMC Avamar received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"The updated graphical interface is better than it used to be."
"It can support many different versions, both newer and older."
"Technical support is good."
"The solution has minimized the recovery time objective, and the recovery point objective, the RTO and RPO. Most customers are looking for to minimize downtime. The solution has helped ensure this."
"The solution is very stable, especially if you are using a RAC environment."
"It is scalable software. All you need to increase is its RAM and CPU. It's pretty easy."
"Dell's technical support are quite helpful with straightforward issues."
"The full backup is a great feature. Restoration is also good and very quick."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"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."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"The recovery is a bit slow."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"The interface could have a different appearance."
"The price could be cheaper."
"It's complex in nature."
"It would be beneficial to have a single user interface for all of the features."
"The web console could be a lot better."
"The configuration is too complex."
"There should be more vendors incorporated into the solution."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. 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 Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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