We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar, IBM Spectrum Protect, and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."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 entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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 solution is mostly stable."
"It seems very scalable and robust. It can do what we require it to do."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"We are talking about a stable solution which boasts good performance and security."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"This solution has improved our organization through better file and database recovery."
"Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"It protects our data. That is what it is there for."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"It's an expensive solution."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"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."
"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."
"Backup image browse times should be faster."
"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."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"IBM Spectrum Protect does have a lot of the features that we need, but I think they need to improve their backup virtualization and backup for container."
"Integration with some applications in the healthcare field could be added, as that is a big part of our business."
"It lacks reporting and an efficient alert mechanism. The GUI could also be improved."
"A lot of my customers always ask for legal holds, especially on email."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved by making the installation easier. Once it's implemented, it's okay. IBM started lagging behind when things started moving to storage and cloud-based solutions. Even though they've recently released updates that give cloud-based protection, personally, I still believe they are not up to par with the likes of Rubrik. The entire product is a little bit clumsy because they have co-joined two different products, so it's complex. Even from a sales/explaining to people what it does point of view, it's complex. Whereas, if you take more current products, it's a single box solution. You reel it in, you fire it up, you do a couple of points and clicks, and off you go, whereas the IBM system is seriously complex. There's a lot of training involved and it's a massively difficult product to sell at this point in time."
"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
