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"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface.""The most valuable feature is the virtual backup.""We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup.""We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company.""The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks.""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.""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.""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."

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"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space.""It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."

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"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license.""Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them.""The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately.""The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive.""EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition.""It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam.""The product could be improved by simplifying the components available.""What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar."

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"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason.""I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client.""The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."

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  • "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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  • "The product's pricing is a good value. They have a straightforward licensing model."
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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.

    SQL Safe Backup helps database administrators to back up and recover instantly across SQL Servers. Unlike its competition, it provides virtual databases with access to back up files without consuming disk space, instant restore, centralized management across SQL Servers, and alert notifications for success and failure of operations.

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    Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 72nd in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, while IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0. 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 IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". 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 IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact.

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