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Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication
May 2024
Executive Summary
Updated on Sep 18, 2022

We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: Users of both solutions explain that setup is easy and straightforward for the technical expert or experienced user. For the novice or less tech-savvy user, it can be very complex.
  • Features: Dell Avamar scales well, and is very fast. It provides significant data reduction, data deduplication, and compression options, which are very cost-effective. Many users feel the interface is a bit dated and that integrations could be better.

    Veeam users appreciated that the solution is flexible, simple, and scalable. Users like that the solution has the ability to quickly verify that all backups are valid. Although Veeam integrates well with many solutions, many users feel there is inadequate support beyond Windows for other products.
  • Pricing: Many Dell Avamar users feel that pricing can be a bit expensive. Veeam users relate that there are many flexible pricing options available, including a free option.
  • Service and Support: Users of both solutions are satisfied with the service and support.

Comparison Results: When searching for the best Backup and Recovery Software solution, PeerSpot users feel Veeam Backup & Replication is the best choice. Veeam offers great integrations, scales easily, is very easy to use and is very cost-effective. Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication Report (Updated: May 2024).
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DJIBRINE AGADJI
Has a straightforward backup process
Veeam's Instant Recovery feature allowed my organization to continue operations during file server failure by immediately restoring lost data.
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Pros
"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.""They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market.""Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations.""The solution scales well.""The installation process is pretty straightforward.""Duplication and the speed of backup are great.""Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently.""I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."

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"It is a rock-solid backup solution. That's all, and that's what we were asking for.""It's the most easy-to-use backup replication that I have used so far.""I am not a direct user of this product, but my technical guys tell me that they like the product, and it is easy to use. We don't have any issues with it.""Replication is the most valuable feature.""The most valuable feature is how reliable Veeam Backup is. It has the normal expected features that allow you to ensure that everything is backed up completely.""Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure.""The solution can work for companies no matter the size or scope.""A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."

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Cons
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be.""It's an expensive solution.""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.""It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example.""There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V.""Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers.""Technical support should be more knowledgeable.""Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."

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"Scalability, as well as licensing costs, need to be improved.""think backing up from physical servers and ransomware security needs some improvements.""They need a better solution for backend storage.""Veeam currently lacks features for backing up to network-attached storage. Veeam Backup & Replication agents do not support S3 storage. Only Veeam Backup & Replication server supports S3 storage.""Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus.""It would be beneficial to have enhanced solutions for database backup, particularly for Oracle databases in the context of SAP systems.""Add an archive option to support legal obligations.""Veeam Backup Replication could improve by having better integration with the cloud. Additionally, they do not have direct integration to S3 or Azure storage for the backups of the VMs. This feature would be beneficial because we have to go through the scalable repository which I do not like."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is very expensive. It's a trust based licensing. So that's an ethical challenge."
  • "This solution is less expensive than Veeam for us, although it depends on the customer because we get a great discount."
  • "I'm not sure, but perhaps the pricing could be done better at the moment."
  • "The price is the main thing I'd like to see them change. If they can come down in price, that would be a good thing. It's very cost competitive in the entry level range, because Veeam pricing is much cheaper than Avamar."
  • "It was approximately $70-80,000 when it was under support, but right now EMC has not been supporting this product for two years."
  • "Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."
  • "When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."
  • "The price of this product should be lower."

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  • "If you have Exchange, Oracle, SQL, or a supported SAN, then I suggest getting at least an Enterprise edition. It’ll pay for itself in no time."
  • "The pricing and licensing is better than the competitors, but it could be better."
  • "Room for improvement is actually more in the way of licensing. The really good and useful features are in the Enterprise plus edition, and that one is really expensive."
  • "Since pricing is per socket, it is not expensive to add capacity as you go along."
  • "The licensing is based on the number of cores you have in your ESX or Hyper-V environment."
  • "The price is a bit high. Licensing type is VMware friendly, so it is easy."
  • "I think the price is good when you choose the Essentials Suite, but when you buy a full featured version (for instance the Enterprise Plus) the price is a little bit expensive."
  • "Setup cost and licensing of Veeam are nothing to complain about when compared to similar products for enterprise backup recovery solutions."

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    Questions from the Community
    What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?
    Top Answer:From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly… more »
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    What do you like most about Dell EMC Avamar?
    Top Answer:It's stable and offers good performance.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?
    Top Answer:The product’s pricing is a bit high.
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    Ranking
    12th
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    11,736
    Comparisons
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    Reviews
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    Average Words per Review
    494
    Rating
    7.7
    1st
    out of 133 in Backup and Recovery
    Views
    48,865
    Comparisons
    41,655
    Reviews
    12
    Average Words per Review
    529
    Rating
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    Also Known As
    Avamar
    Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam Availability Suite
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    Dell Technologies
    Veeam Software
    Overview

    Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

    If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

    Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

    Veeam Backup & Replication is a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution designed primarily for virtual environments. Veeam Backup & Replication offers a blend of simplicity and efficiency, making it a go-to solution for businesses seeking to protect their data. It supports a wide range of virtual platforms, including VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. According to the reviews, what sets Veeam apart is its ability to provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged data, and complete visibility. 

    Veeam Backup & Replication delivers availability for cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a simple-by-design management console, users are offered what is presented as fast, flexible, reliable backup, archival, recovery and replication functionality.

    Backup capabilities

    • Continuous Data Protection
    • Fast, reliable application-aware, image-based backups
    • Unlimited capacity and cost savings for long-term data retention on object storage with new Veeam Cloud Tier
    • Enterprise application support for Veeam Plug-ins for SAP HANA and Oracle RMAN

    Replication capabilities

    • Instant recovery for NAS, Microsoft SQL and Oracle
    • Recover individual files easily with Instant VM and File-level Recovery
    • Easy portability and recovery to AWS, Azure and Azure Stack with NEW Veeam Cloud Mobility

    Recovery capabilities

    • Recover individual files with Instant VM and File-level Recovery
    • Portability and recovery to AWS, Azure and Azure Stack with NEW Veeam Cloud Mobility
    • Fast, item-level and application recovery for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, and SQL Server and Oracle

    Reviews from Real Users

    Veeam Backup & Replication is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are its ease of set up, the fact that it is agentless, and that it has an intuitive dashboard. 

    A Network Operations Manager at an educational organization says, "Integration with VMware is excellent with very granular recovery."

    An Inside Solutions Architect at a tech services company mentions, “I like that it's agent-less, easy to set up, and hardware-agnostic.”

    An Account Manager at a tech services company states, “The dashboard is very, very easy to understand. We do demonstrations all the time with customers just to show them. If they've lost particular files because of a server going down, we can retrieve those files for them and quickly bring those files back up.”

    Kerem C., Director of Professional Services/Senior Solution Architect/Trainer at a tech services company, explains, “It's good for backup performance management and backup window management.”

    Sample Customers
    Dodge County, St Laurence's College, FieldCore (a GE Company), Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Getronics, Lewisville Independent School District, EnvisionRxOptions, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
    Vodafone, American Standard Brands, Welch’s, University of Florida, Tata Global Beverages Limited, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, MacLean-Fogg Company
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company13%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise48%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise63%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise31%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Arcserve UDP. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.

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