We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and INFINIDAT InfiniGuard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"The solution scales well."
"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."
"The solution is very stable."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"The product is good for backups."
"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."
"Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."
"It's an expensive solution."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"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."
"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is ranked 60th in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is rated 10.0. 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 INFINIDAT InfiniGuard writes "Fast data recovery for large scale datasets". 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 INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is most compared with Quantum DXi Series, Cohesity DataProtect and Quest NetVault.
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