We compared Dell Avamar and Nakivo based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Dell Avamar earns acclaim for its scalability, data compression capabilities, swift incremental backups, and seamless integration with Data Domain and VM stacks. Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Dell Avamar could improve its tape connectivity and bare-metal restoration. Users also requested better Azure backups and a more user-friendly interface. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup.
Service and Support: Some customers express satisfaction with Dell support, but others said there is room for improvement. Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive.
Ease of Deployment: Opinions on Dell Avamar’s setup were mixed. Some users found it to be straightforward, while others considered it complex and difficult. Deployment time ranged from a few hours to a week, and assistance from Dell engineers might be necessary. Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult.
Pricing: Dell Avamar’s pricing is generally seen as reasonable, but some users think it is expensive. Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs.
ROI: Dell Avamar provides cost savings through data reduction, deduplication, and compression. Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures.
Comparison Results: Dell Avamar is a scalable solution that offers excellent data compression and fast compression. However, Avamar earned mixed reviews for support, deployment, and pricing. Users also requested better Azure and bare-metal backups and restoration capabilities. Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality.
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"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."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"The ability to use a variety of cloud providers rather than being tied into one is a huge bonus."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"We spend less time to get data recovered."
"The most important feature besides the easy management of the different backup jobs is the automated e-mail notification functionality."
"All in all, NAKIVO helped us save a lot of time."
"The user interface is good, and it's user-friendly. I also like its usability with hyper-convergence products like Nutanix and others in the data infrastructure."
"Backup jobs are running smoothly every day with job reports sent to email after they finish each job. That gives us peace of mind."
"They reply immediately to any query raised from us as a technician or consultant and they know the pulse of the market and keep updating the features in such a big way."
"The solution should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"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."
"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."
"In the future, it would be nice to have support for Zimbra email, Collabora Office, and the NextCloud content collaboration platform."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"It would be a good thing to have some use case and architecture examples online to understand integration in complex infrastructure."
"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."
"From our experience, the main factor that could be improved is adding more cloud services that are supported as a backup repository."
"It is missing the file and folder backup; however, this product is meant for virtual machine backup and recovery, so that is really outside of the scope of the software."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". 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 NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto. See our Dell Avamar vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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