We performed a comparison between Barracuda Intronis Backup and Dell Avamar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The backup feature is most valuable. That's why we took it."
"The main feature we like about Barracuda is that we can map devices directly to the cloud. It operates as a security device to run a backup of the cloud in case one of our physical machines goes down."
"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."
"It's a one-stop shop, meaning we just program and schedule the backups, decide what is being backed up, and then it automatically replicates and deduplicates."
"The cloud side of it is nice. Everything happens behind the scenes without you realizing it, which is nice. It doesn't interrupt usage. There is also the freedom and ease of use of the cloud portal, which you can use to manage your backup. One of the strong points of Barracuda is that you can go from zero to having your first backup running within 10 minutes. If you have access to admin accounts and everything else, it can happen in 10 minutes. The ability to go in and just restore a particular file without having to do a full restore is also very useful. You can just go in and pick the files that you need to restore, and the same is with email. You can just go in, find an email, and restore that email without having to do a full backup of all the data or a full restore of the data. I feel very safe because it is not just about the backup; it is about the protection of the data from outside threats. They have a lot of areas of ATP, that is, advanced threat protection. You don't see that much on the backup side. You see it more on the email side. In the email protection, you know it is there at the back. It moves the quarantine emails that come through into a sandbox area, and then you can choose in the sandbox. You can open up an email in the sandbox to make sure that if there is a virus, it can't harm you. You can also plan how often your backups run, such as every six hours or four hours. It is the same with email. They also have a great PhishLine package, which is phishing attack training. You can have the strongest and the best backup and security that you can, but the end user is always the weakest link. They send almost like testing emails to end users to help them identify and understand phishing emails and prevent user or phishing attacks. It is a very good package."
"The performance is good and the interface is user-friendly."
"The most important feature in Barracuda Backup is the ability to archive the backup of emails."
"The superior support from Barracuda in setting up, using, and helping with issues for the product."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Avamar would have to be the way it works over needing very little bandwidth to move data across a WAN or LAN."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"The setup is very easy."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"I found the most valuable features of Dell Avamar are the user-friendly interface and ease to use. Our clients have administrated this software and there is no additional training required."
"The solution is pretty expensive. This is the usual customer complaint."
"The restore time can be improved. The restore time for large quantities of folders is slow. Sometimes, if I'm doing a full recovery of a server, it takes multiple hours, which probably is natural. It might also be because of our internet speed to the cloud."
"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."
"It would be nice to have some reports generated on the usage, but it is not essential."
"I would like to see the automatic backup of critical applications to the cloud."
"We're working with them on our file share backups. Our solution needs a little bit more fine-tuning. We're not sure if the issue is at our end or at Barracuda's end."
"Barracuda works great for smaller network environments, which are not that complex. It is hardware-based with a Linux core, which you don't have access to, and a lot of stuff happens on the back-end. Even from a troubleshooting perspective, it is a bit challenging."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see cloud support and deduplication functionality."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"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."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"The UI is not easy to use. There are other products such as Veeam that are easy to use for the end-user which is why they are moving away from Avamar or Networker."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 10th in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews. Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda Intronis Backup writes "Finding data to restore is much easier than rummaging through tapes to find backups". 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". Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas 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). See our Barracuda Intronis Backup vs. Dell Avamar report.
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