We performed a comparison between BDRSuite and Dell Avamar based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use."
"We are now using it 24/7 because it is serving as an online backup, and very soon, the DR will activated on the product."
"It makes it possible for us to back up our Unix machines without installing a host, client, or any client software. It gives us some peace of mind in regards to those servers getting backed up."
"Moving to cloud backups eliminated the need for clients to change USB drives or worry about drives being stored offsite."
"The best thing about it is that it has been adaptable to our business model. We are in industrial networking, and they were adaptable to give us offline installers and offline licenses. That has been the biggest thing. They also allow us to order the licenses on a perpetual basis."
"The ability to map a drive and restore a separate file is most valuable. The restoration activity is good."
"The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup."
"The compression, encryption and deduplication features are fabulous and great stuff."
"The solution scales well."
"Avamar has long been the best in its class, but that's changing as new solutions emerge. However, Dell has traditionally been a leader in deduplication and compression. Avamar enabled us to shift data from on-premise local appliances to data centers and multi-tenant infrastructure. That's a powerful feature. because customers can back up to the cloud without upgrading o high-capacity links or congesting their backups."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"The only place where I would really want to see improvement, out the gate, is more granular scheduling... If I want to do an offset or to only do two backups on Friday and Saturday - versus whole hourly incrementals during the week - I don't have that granularity right now."
"They need to improve their marketing because not many people are aware of it. People ask me what is Vembu, and I have to explain to them it is a good tool for backup and other things."
"I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything."
"It would be good to have a volume licensing discount. We're a managed IT service provider, so we're backing up not just our own systems but all our clients'. In that regard, as we grow, we're putting business through Vembu. There is not any specific partner incentive at all. So that would be nice to see."
"I have had issues with new client registrations. There are frequent connectivity issues to the cloud servers. Multiple times, I have had to prove to support that it wasn’t a problem on my end. It always works out in the end, but it is troubling to have the same issues repeated across different clients. Issues eventually get escalated to the cloud team and are mysteriously resolved with no changes on my end."
"There was one issue though with the hardware IDs. When I went to a different version of Hyper-V, the hardware IDs weren't restored and the machine got two new IDs. The preliminary unique IDs weren't restored, so I had to reactivate programs."
"There are bugs. For one month, I encountered a big issue where my storage pool could not be identified. My backups were stopped because they were not able to locate the storage pool. So, I removed the settings and started the backups again. The application is not stable. It needs some debugging and testing on the build side of production."
"We have not been able to move our backups from one drive to another one. We can only create a storage pool. However, if we want to change a drive, it is not possible to delete one drive as long there is data on it. For this, we have to call the support. While they can solve this, it is not out-of-the-box."
"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
BDRSuite is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 62 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. BDRSuite is rated 8.2, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of BDRSuite writes "Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment". 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". BDRSuite is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Vinchin Backup & Recovery, Acronis Cyber Protect and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, 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 BDRSuite vs. Dell Avamar report.
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