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.
"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"It is a very complete product."
"I found the most valuable features of Dell Avamar are the user-friendly interface and ease to use. Our clients have administrated this software and there is no additional training required."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"The product is good for backups."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"It works quickly and is very stable."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The solution is simple to understand."
"Technical support is good."
"This solution is very stable."
"Simple, stable and straightforward."
"Dell EMC NetWorker integrates well with our domain and the performance is quite good on-premise. We receive approximately 1 terabyte within one hour."
"It has the ability to support all kinds of backups. It can be used to back up databases, operating systems, virtual machines, Lotus Notes, and Exchange. It can also do remote image backups for remote sites. It integrates and works with Data Domain. It is an enterprise-class product that can be used for anything and everything across multiple sites and locations. It is also very scalable."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"When you reach out to your maximum license availability, or you exceed your license limit, NetWorker never stops doing your backups."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"The support is an area with concerns where improvements are required."
"The user interface of this solution could be improved. It is not user friendly and is difficult to understand for new users. New users struggle to understand the logic."
"Dell NetWorker could improve the GUI to include rack recovery."
"The user interface has to be improved"
"The price could be cheaper."
"There are some limitations regarding scalability of the product."
"The front end of the solution could improve. The user-friendliness is lacking."
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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