We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and NetApp FAS Series 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 initial setup is easy."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"It's simple to configure."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"I like the unified management feature because sometimes you end up running a single protocol on the entire system."
"Fast Snapshots"
"The product is user-friendly and helps to evaluate the performance of each node. It ensures that if one node encounters an issue, the system can immediately redistribute the workload without interruptions. This setup provides uninterrupted operation for our systems."
"The strong point is that our clients like this are RadLV (Radiology Low-Value). They also use SnapMirror and MetroCluster."
"The most valuable feature of the NetApp FAS Series is its stability."
"It is very easy to expand disks and manage CIFS."
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"We can manage our applications from a single dashboard."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"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."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."
"Its operating system is very cumbersome. However, after you set it up, it runs pretty smoothly. Its file system is not very dynamic. It is very static."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"The product should improve its user experience."
"It lacks automatic tiering, When you use data, some of it goes cold. It is not hot data, so the system should automatically move that data to the SATA, while the hot data is kept on tier-one, the SaaS or SSD drives."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"There is room for improvement in deployment and configuration processes."
"The product should include an audit log feature."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 98 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". 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 NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our Dell Avamar vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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