We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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 feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."
"If the system were to go down, we needed to make sure that the system could be recovered and available as soon as possible. Spectrum Protect provides you access to directly bind the backup volume to the server and make the system available instead of restoring it and copying the system."
"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"This solution is very stable and has good support available online."
"The feature I find most valuable is the offload to Spectrum Protect for long-term retention. I think the deduplication and replication are quite nice on Plus."
"The most valuable feature is how we can easily power speed up the VM even though the VM resides in remote storage."
"The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"I think they could also move more towards cloud solutions. It already has some cloud tiering, but I think that could be more extensive. They should work with all cloud providers and I think in the future they will be on all cloud platforms."
"The UI is not easy to use. There are other products such as Veeam that are easy to use for the end-user which is why they are moving away from Avamar or Networker."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The recovery is a bit slow."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"It requires much more automation features."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". 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 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik. See our Dell Avamar vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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