We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"Client deduplication."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"It works quickly and is very stable."
"The product is good for backups."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"I personally find Veritas NetBackup Applicance hassle-free."
"The product enables me to recover the information of the appliances in the organization."
"This is a good backup interconversion solution because all the masters and the targets backups are on the same system. It is easy to administrate for a single point of access for clients."
"It has a lot of very good features. The virtual tape library (VTL) feature is most valuable. Overall, it is easy to use."
"It has been our go-to product for backup."
"I think the solution is very intuitive, effective, and easy to use."
"The solution has a very easy-to-navigate user interface."
"We find the pricing is reasonable."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"More licensing options could be introduced to the software. It is currently based on capacity only. Compared to competitors, it is difficult to position it economically everywhere. From the usability point of view, they are making many improvements on new interfaces, the SaaS offering, etc."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"The hybrid model is not that efficient if we want to off-site data; it takes a lot of time to upload the data on a regular basis."
"The reporting feature can be improved."
"The desirability of appliance solutions is dwindling in the marketplace."
"I would like the ability to recover a single folder within the backup of a virtual machine."
"I would like to see a product that requires less expertise to manage it."
"Technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". 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 Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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