We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) 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."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 solution is very stable."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"Stable and scalable suite of solutions with deduplication, apart from data protection, storage, and backup."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the integrated deduplication function."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerProtect DD are ease of use and deduplication."
"The deduplication feature is the most valuable part of the solution."
"We have never had any issues with Data Domain. It has been stable."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression and the Data Domain Boost."
"It is very fast as compared to the other competitors. Its simplicity and bit rate are also valuable. It takes less time if we compare it with the old solution that we have."
"Dell PowerProtect DD’s most valuable feature is data deduplication."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"Dell EMC Avamar is a very complex product. It took a lot of time for the IT admins to get trained on how to use it. It is not very user-friendly, and we won't be using Avamar anymore. It needs a lot of improvement in terms of how the backups have been configured, and the reporting is too complex."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"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."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"Backup image browse times should be faster."
"Dell EMC Data Domain needs to have better compatibility between NetWorker and the hardware. NetWorker is not as good as the other products which are currently on the market like Backup Exec."
"First-time integrations are difficult in NetWorker. NetWorker software needs to be simplified. It's very complex."
"We encountered data loss during the configuration process."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"The licensing model was the biggest concern for our company, but the poor support after the initial implementation is of equal concern."
"We would like to see the price of this solution brought down to be comparable with similar products currently on the market."
"They should reduce the CPC cost to customers. The product is becoming very expensive."
"Data Domain lacks compatibility with fiber channels and tapes. We can't use it with a tape library. That's an issue in Latin America sometimes because a lot of clients still use tapes for budget reasons. Maybe they have a lot of archives. In North America and Europe, they do a lot of archiving, but they use the cloud more than we do. Sometimes we have to put together a Frankenstein where we connect another server to the tape library and send all the data there."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 61 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4. 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 Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Rubrik and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) report.
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