We performed a comparison between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Networker based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dell EMC Avamar wins out in this comparison due to its robust performance as well as its impressive data reduction and deduplication abilities. In addition, Dell EMC Avamar received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"The solution is very stable."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"The most valuable feature of Dell NetWorker is its quick configuration and handling of large databases."
"The software implementation takes about 30 minutes."
"Technical support is good."
"The interface is user-friendly and can be used by the end-users."
"The most valuable features for us at the moment are NFS, file system backup, and IP backup."
"I feel that it is a good product."
"The software’s best feature is data backup for any system."
"It's easy to use."
"Dell EMC Avamar is a very complex product. It took a lot of time for the IT admins to get trained on how to use it. It is not very user-friendly, and we won't be using Avamar anymore. It needs a lot of improvement in terms of how the backups have been configured, and the reporting is too complex."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"Backup image browse times should be faster."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"The UI needs some enhancement to be more user-friendly."
"The management of Dell Networker is quite cumbersome."
"The user interface has to be improved"
"The stability of the NMC could use some attention, as it tends to be a bit shaky during jobs and other operations."
"It is a little buggy at times, which is the only thing that I dislike about this product."
"We would like support for tape space reclaim, using either the same or another pool."
"I would like to see the user interface improved, more documentation, faster support, and it could be easier to configure."
"There should be more vendors incorporated into the solution."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. 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 Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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