We compared Dell Avamar and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Dell Avamar earns acclaim for its scalability, data compression capabilities, swift incremental backups, and seamless integration with Data Domain and VM stacks. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Dell Avamar could improve its tape connectivity and bare-metal restoration. Users also requested better Azure backups and a more user-friendly interface. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: Some customers express satisfaction with Dell support, but others said there is room for improvement. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: Opinions on Dell Avamar’s setup were mixed. Some users found it to be straightforward, while others considered it complex and difficult. Deployment time ranged from a few hours to a week, and assistance from Dell engineers might be necessary. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: Dell Avamar’s pricing is generally seen as reasonable, but some users think it is expensive. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Dell Avamar provides cost savings through data reduction, deduplication, and compression. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: Dell Avamar is a scalable solution that offers excellent data compression and fast compression. However, Avamar earned mixed reviews for support, deployment, and pricing. Users also requested better Azure and bare-metal backups and restoration capabilities. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"It is a very complete product."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"The solution has a user-friendly interface and is easy to configure."
"We have been able to set up a failover site that has replicas of our critical VMs."
"The user interface is good, and it's user-friendly. I also like its usability with hyper-convergence products like Nutanix and others in the data infrastructure."
"Backups are very easy to implement and schedule, the product is very useful, and the recovery procedure is very extensive and feature-rich."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"The backup and replication are great."
"NAKIVO is easy to use and pretty easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"The reporting should be improved, as we currently have to use another tool for that purpose."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"The recovery is a bit slow."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"At the moment I am pleased with what Nakivo does but I would like more reporting functions and if possible, integration with my RMM system."
"The only thing we have encountered that we would like to see improved in the future are error messages. They could be more detailed and helpful, without the need to send logs to support. Failing that, the part of the log related to the error could be displayed alongside the error message, so I can investigate the error without looking through all of those logs that I'm able to download."
"When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside."
"My first thought was maybe the GUI could be improved, although it works."
"In the future, it would be nice to have support for Zimbra email, Collabora Office, and the NextCloud content collaboration platform."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto. See our Dell Avamar vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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