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.
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 Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"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."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Avamar would have to be the way it works over needing very little bandwidth to move data across a WAN or LAN."
"Replication and restore object in Exchange boxes with possibility to select part of Microsoft directory."
"Once you get it set up, everything is smooth, and the recovery is excellent."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"Its stability and scalability were the main reasons for going for this solution. It is highly scalable, and its stability is also powerful. It has a friendly interface, and its monitoring and performance are the best in the market."
"Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media."
"What I like most about this solution are the simplicity and the price-performance ratio."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"Its ability to back up very large objects can be improved. In terms of new features, they can include the ability to use cloud services, like S3, more natively."
"The client caches and deduplication system have a few problems."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"Some support replies for a broken backup task have been "rebuild the job from scratch" and this is a bad thing to do if you have many VMs and repositories."
"Needs better integration with cloud service providers."
"The interface and cluster environments could be improved in the future as presently they are using agent interface instead of user interface. Also, the backup for the Oracle WAC environment can be improved."
"It would be ideal if they could capture everything and then timestamp and back up everything up to that timestamp."
"The data duplication should be improved."
"In terms of what can be improved, I would say they could add automations for disaster migrations and for reverse replication. Overall, they need more automation."
"Could offer a better conclusion of the backups."
"The Veeam portal should be better integrated with all the parts of the new release. But there's always a workaround to replicate the new solution. I'd like to have better integration with other solutions like SAP."
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 Microsoft DPM. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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