We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) 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."The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"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 backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"It's simple to configure."
"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."
"What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance."
"We don't need to manage different devices."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."
"IDPA's best feature is Turbo Boost Technology. The compression and duplication features are excellent, too."
"The solution is strong."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"Instead of four or five tools, consisting of backup software, storage where the backup resides, and a separate system for reporting and central monitoring, they all now come in the virtual edition for IDP."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"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."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs."
"The product's index master feature needs improvement."
"I would like to see integration with Dell EMC's Cloud Tier."
"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."
"The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2. 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 PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) report.
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