We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."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."
"We've found the product to be stable."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"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."
"The speed and the ease of the initial setup are both good. It is not complex."
"One of the features I find most valuable, is the good technical support."
"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"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 product has to be more mature, like to be another six to eight months on the market. A lot of maturity needs to be incorporated."
"The interface and documentation need to improve."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] is rated 7.6. 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 Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] writes "Speedy and easy setup but it needs to mature ". 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 Dell ProtectPoint [EOL] is most compared with .
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