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We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Quorum OnQ 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.
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Pros
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable.""Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently.""They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market.""The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments.""The solution is very user-friendly.""The setup is very easy.""The initial setup is easy.""It's stable and offers good performance."

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"It does automated tests to the systems to make sure that you could spin them up if you needed to. And if something doesn't come back up in those tests, we get a notification saying the system didn't come back up.""The solution is very cost effective.""When it comes to recovering what you need from a backup, it's really easy. You just drill through the directory, find the file and the date that you want, and click to recover. You then pick the directory you want to save it in. Usually, it takes a minute or two and it's done. It's quick and easy.""The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use.""The change in the way that Quorum processes data has made a tremendous improvement in backup and replication times. While the familiar interface remains, the underpinnings have been finely tuned and the speed is incredible. My large Exchange Server went from 5- to 6-hour backups down to 22 minutes.""The most valuable feature of Quorum OnQ is quick recovery.""I like this product because it is easy to use.""The biggest feature is being able to do a file recovery to the original server. That is extremely useful and has saved us a few times when we've had ransomware. In some of those cases, people's computers were locked down by viruses which spread to things they had access to, including server shares. But we were easily able to just restore to four hours prior, instead of a day or two or more ago."

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Cons
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms.""If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration.""We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything.""The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be.""I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful.""The bare-metal restores could be improved.""Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution.""The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."

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"There seems to be a lack of technicians. Sometimes they are very busy and I don't hear back for a day or two. The technicians they have are great. They are fantastic, but it seems difficult, at times, to get in contact with anyone.""They need integration with other platforms.""The one thing they could do is some tweaking on the web solution that's supposed to monitor everything from one page, rather than having to bring each server up on its own webpage. It doesn't always accurately show what the system's state is at the time, and we have to restart that process now and then.""One thing that could be done to improve it would be a single pane of glass for doing disaster recovery testing, where I could have remote consoles in one place... I still have to go to each location in a browser and then bring up the console. I'd like to see them integrate that into a single pane of glass so I don't have to go to each server.""The user interface needs to be improved.""I don't love the scheduler, as I think that interface could use an overhaul.""The cost could be reduced.""We found that some of the live SQL databases we were backing up would be inconsistent when we would restore them."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It is very expensive. It's a trust based licensing. So that's an ethical challenge."
  • "This solution is less expensive than Veeam for us, although it depends on the customer because we get a great discount."
  • "I'm not sure, but perhaps the pricing could be done better at the moment."
  • "The price is the main thing I'd like to see them change. If they can come down in price, that would be a good thing. It's very cost competitive in the entry level range, because Veeam pricing is much cheaper than Avamar."
  • "It was approximately $70-80,000 when it was under support, but right now EMC has not been supporting this product for two years."
  • "Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."
  • "When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."
  • "The price of this product should be lower."
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  • "We have never questioned whether it is worth it because it so obviously is a great value."
  • "When we first got the Quorum the licensing was different."
  • "The cost is higher than other software and services, but it is an absolute must-have."
  • "The total for our current solution's licensing is about $14,000 for 12 servers for three years."
  • "The pricing is about $1,400 a month. It's a little bit on the higher side. But it's one of those situations where time is valuable for me. So if it costs a little bit more money for me to have a solution that just works and requires less of my day-to-day management, I'm willing to pay a little bit more."
  • "The initial expenditure for us was a little under $40,000 for the recent renewal. For the first three years after that, other than electricity, there's no cost. After that, their support contract has to be renewed annually. We spent close to $6,000, between the two offices, for support."
  • "When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."
  • "The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."
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    Overview

    Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

    If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

    Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

    Quorum onQ is the global leader in 1-click instant recovery, providing full immediate recovery of your critical systems after any storage, system or site failure. It does this by automatically maintaining up-to-date, ready-to-run virtual machine clones of your physical and virtual servers stored on a dedicated appliance – clones that will transparently take over for failed servers within minutes.

    Sample Customers
    Dodge County, St Laurence's College, FieldCore (a GE Company), Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Getronics, Lewisville Independent School District, EnvisionRxOptions, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm28%
    Logistics Company17%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Individual & Family Service11%
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    Financial Services Firm9%
    Real Estate/Law Firm9%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise49%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Small Business86%
    Large Enterprise14%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise54%
    Buyer's Guide
    Dell Avamar vs. Quorum OnQ
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Avamar vs. Quorum OnQ and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Quorum OnQ is ranked 46th in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, while Quorum OnQ is rated 9.0. 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 Quorum OnQ writes "Took us just hours to do a complete server restore, with minimal downtime". 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 Quorum OnQ is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect and Acronis Cyber Protect. See our Dell Avamar vs. Quorum OnQ report.

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