We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Unitrends 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."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."
"It's a good solution."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"The product is good for backups."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"We've found the product to be stable."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"They have great support."
"Being an appliance-based solution, we were able to migrate backup solutions without having to purchase a lot of hardware separately."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"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."
"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."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"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 helpful if there was cloud support."
"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Unitrends 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". 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 Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Unitrends report.
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