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.
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"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."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"NetWorker has very good scalability."
"The software is quite complicated and useful for large corporations using different information systems."
"Data domain is a good feature."
"The backup capabilities and the automatization of the backup - along with the potential to make the back up on a virtual machine - are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"It is the best umbrella, serving the best applications."
"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."
"It's a good product that can be integrated easily with the Data domain."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"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."
"The front end of the solution could improve. The user-friendliness is lacking."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"It's complex in nature."
"The management of Dell Networker is quite cumbersome."
"The security features need backup and encryption. It would be nice if they added this feature. I would also like to be able to decrypt when restoring the security features. Hackers can sense these vulnerabilities today, and we need to have our enterprise prepared."
"The price could be cheaper."
"The implementation process could be improved."
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure 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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