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 Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.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 most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"The deduplication feature is the best aspect of the solution."
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"The backup and replication features are most valuable."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup Replication are efficient backup and replication. Additionally, Veeam Backup Replication supports all products and vendors."
"Integration with VMware is excellent with very granular recovery."
"Veeam is the gold standard for backup and recovery. The ease of use and reliability of this solution are real assets. Also, it has an ease of use to work with a third party vendor."
"The solution's best features are its ease of use and replication."
"The product’s configuration and settings are very easy."
"Most of the features that we can use with HPE products are directly integrated with the Veeam. This is very important for the customers to have only one pane of glass to manage the backups and also use the HPE products for the backups."
"While I do not recall whether the latest version is 10.0 or 11.0 I do know that it allows one to make a back up repository that is very scalable and simple."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"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."
"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."
"The DR component should be part of the comprehensive package, not separate."
"I would like to have them come up with more robust features when it comes to individual endpoint protection."
"The recovery and integration features of Veeam Backup Replication could improve. For example, all VM integration could improve, such as with Hyper-V and VMware."
"Some of the best practice documentation could be improved."
"Scalability, as well as licensing costs, need to be improved."
"The documentation and communication could be better in Veeam Backup Replication."
"There's a lot of room for improvement surrounding the backup process."
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 Arcserve UDP. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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