We performed a comparison between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Networker based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dell EMC Avamar wins out in this comparison due to its robust performance as well as its impressive data reduction and deduplication abilities. In addition, Dell EMC Avamar received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"The deduplication feature is the best aspect of the solution."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"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."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"Avamar has long been the best in its class, but that's changing as new solutions emerge. However, Dell has traditionally been a leader in deduplication and compression. Avamar enabled us to shift data from on-premise local appliances to data centers and multi-tenant infrastructure. That's a powerful feature. because customers can back up to the cloud without upgrading o high-capacity links or congesting their backups."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"The solution is very user-friendly. After setting up five machines for our customers we teach them how to set up the agent and start doing their backups. It is very easy for them once they see how to do it, they like to do it on their own."
"It is scalable software. All you need to increase is its RAM and CPU. It's pretty easy."
"Dell's technical support are quite helpful with straightforward issues."
"Dell NetWorker's user interface is quite simple and very interactive."
"The software implementation takes about 30 minutes."
"Good scalability and virtual environment protection."
"There are no problems in terms of stability."
"I started off as a storage engineer and ended up owning Dell EMC Data Domain and Dell EMC NetWorker. I've not used any other backup solutions at this scale. Dell EMC NetWorker does what I need it to do, it's efficient."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex and could be simpler."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"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."
"The user interface is hard to use, it should be simplified. There are a lot of web-based management interfaces which they should consider."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing and more integration with the other products in Dell EMC."
"I would like to see better support for the container systems, and we would like to see more support for image backups instead of pure file backups."
"Currently, the NetWorker server only supports the Windows server bare-metal recovery, so an improvement would be built-in support for Linux and UNIX BMR."
"Support is definitely an area of concern because of the time it takes to resolve our issues."
"They need to be compatible with the cloud because EMC NetWorker cannot compete with other products at the moment. EMC focuses only on their own cloud and do not take into consideration other cloud vendors."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"I haven't had a good experience with technical support. It takes them a very long time to resolve issues."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. 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 Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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