We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found the product to be scalable."
"It works quickly and is very stable."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"We don't need to manage different devices."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance."
"It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"The solution is strong."
"The product is integrated with Huawei software and its backup and recovery time is very fast."
"Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable."
"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"It's an expensive solution."
"After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised."
"We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs."
"The product's index master feature needs improvement."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"The solution should be easier to use."
"Managing the product is a little bit complicated."
"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."
"I would like to see integration with Dell EMC's Cloud Tier."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2. 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 DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Rubrik, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) report.
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