We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: When searching for the best Backup and Recovery Software solution, PeerSpot users feel Veeam Backup & Replication is the best choice. Veeam offers great integrations, scales easily, is very easy to use and is very cost-effective. Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"Dell Avamar has a push upgrade feature that lets you simultaneously push updates to thousands of clients. I also found the self-service part of Dell Avamar helpful."
"It's a good solution."
"The backup and replication features of this solution are most valuable."
"WAN Accelerator helps tremendously with replicating our data because we have a large chunk of data that gets replicated between our two facilities."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"I have found the backup call feature very good."
"For virtualization it's perfect."
"In Veeam backup, the most valuable feature for me is the recovery. It allows me to recover almost immediately while I continue fixing the problem of the affected machine."
"The product’s configuration and settings are very easy."
"The UI is not easy to use. There are other products such as Veeam that are easy to use for the end-user which is why they are moving away from Avamar or Networker."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"It's an expensive solution."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"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."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"The SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
"The cloud backups from Veeam Backup Replication have not been good. Addiotnaally, the backups of Office 365 and the overall performance can always be improved."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"I would like to have them come up with more robust features when it comes to individual endpoint protection."
"Cross-hypervisor replication can be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see better support for direct backup to tape."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Microsoft DPM. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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