We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Dell Avamar based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Backup nudges ahead of Dell Avamar in this comparison. Azure Backup is a secure, stable solution that users trust. The connectivity to data is very reliable. Dell Avamar can be a bit clunky, takes up a lot of resources, and the overall performance is a bit slow.
"It is easy to schedule backups."
"The tool has a lot of features."
"All of the core features are valuable to us."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is easy to create a backup by using Azure Backup. It also has a good user interface and nice features for sending notifications when any backup fails or there is a change in the status of virtual machines."
"Azure Backup is very simple to use and user-friendly."
"I like that it's a stable solution and their support is good. I think Microsoft's commercial force is superior."
"It is a stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The best aspect of the solution is its backup functionality."
"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"It's a good solution."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"Ransomware protection is missing in Azure Backup."
"We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails."
"There is a limitation of 99 files restores per day which means that we can't complete a huge file restore. We would like Azure to increase the number of the possible file restorations."
"While Azure Backup allows ingress data, the egress data is chargeable, which should be excluded."
"The solution is quite technical. I wouldn't describe it as user friendly. It could be simplified a lot to make it more accessible to the average user."
"In Avamar, the file-based restores are very quick and fast, whereas, in Azure Backup, VM restore is super easy, but if I have to do a file or a folder restore, I have to mount the entire VM image. I have to wait for some time for it to be mounted, and then I have to go inside and then check the file and copy it somewhere. It's a bit of a manual process, whereas in Avamar, you can directly select a file and folder, and it'll recover with whatever permissions you want."
"The time required to restore files should be a little faster."
"Lacks an AI system that would enable easier upgrading of the hardware."
"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."
"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."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Druva Phoenix, whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and DD Boost. See our Azure Backup vs. Dell Avamar report.
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