We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and INFINIDAT InfiniGuard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"The stability is okay."
"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."
"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."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"Its ability to back up very large objects can be improved. In terms of new features, they can include the ability to use cloud services, like S3, more natively."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"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."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is ranked 59th in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is rated 10.0. 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 INFINIDAT InfiniGuard writes "Fast data recovery for large scale datasets". 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), whereas INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is most compared with Quantum DXi Series, Cohesity DataProtect, Quest NetVault and Veritas NetBackup.
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