We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and HPE StoreOnce 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."Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"It is a very complete product."
"It's a good solution."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"It is very easy to implement."
"Catalyst backup is used to back up Oracle databases, and provides very good throughput during backups."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that the tool provides good value for somebody who needs an affordable and reliable storage solution."
"The valuable feature is the ability to work with the Veeam software to reduce the backup windows."
"It results in more efficient storage utilization, cutting capital expenditure in half."
"HPE StoreOnce has high performance."
"Technical support is quite good."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"The support is very bad."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"HPE StoreOnce could improve the capacity support."
"We're outsourced with a partner who recalls a larger amount of problems with the stability of the product."
"Some high-level cybersecurity features could be achieved with some entities, and their integration could be built into the store."
"HPE StoreOnce Backup to Disk (BTD) is not a good backup solution for NAS devices. It does not have a dual controller, so if one controller fails, the entire system will go down."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce should be more user-friendly. Additionally, the configuration and troubleshooting could be better."
"It is difficult to solve issues with this solution remotely. I prefer to use the knowledge base platforms. The response time could improve."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. 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 HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". 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 HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Dell Avamar vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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