We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Microsoft DPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"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."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"It is almost perfect for Microsoft products. It is not a very powerful tool, but it is okay for small sites and small businesses with Microsoft products. It is easy to use for backup and restore. It is good for backing up Microsoft servers such as Exchange and SharePoint servers."
"The automated procedure is quite good for us, as it is able to capture all of the information that we require."
"It has an application backup, a file backup, a system backup and a hypervisor."
"The most important feature is that it's easy to use."
"The user interface is very good. The reporting and monitoring features are also good."
"Its capability to give a BMR for all the workstations that I want to connect to."
"The solution backs up Microsoft workloads as well as anything on the market."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"The user interface can be improved quite a bit."
"We can't take a snapshot and take it outside, which is a problem."
"There is a very poor online user community in terms of people blogging about their experiences with DPM."
"The problem lies with the 2019 version, it's the file system they’re using."
"You have only a few settings and if you change them for some special configurations, it's very difficult."
"The user friendliness could be improved."
"Compatibility and integration with other products needs improvement."
"Management reporting could be improved."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Microsoft DPM is ranked 28th in Backup and Recovery with 17 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Microsoft DPM is rated 7.0. 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 Microsoft DPM writes "Good for backing up, but the 2019 version lags". 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 Microsoft DPM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure Backup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Commvault Cloud and Veeam Data Platform. See our Dell Avamar vs. Microsoft DPM report.
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