Dell Avamar Primary Use Case

Sebastien Chene - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Development Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use Dell Avamar for backing up a VMware environment.

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Darshan Kolambkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Technical Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The main use of Dell Avamar is as a backup and storage solution. 

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Christopher Fallon - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Iomart

We're a managed services provider, and we've developed a custom version of Avamar. It is intended to be a product for single customers, but we transformed it into a multi-tenant platform. 

Avamar is a hybrid solution. We can deploy Avamar as a direct-to-cloud service, or we can deploy agents onto customers' endpoints at their branches, and they can then back up straight into our mobile attendant platform and update centers. We also offer customers on-premise appliances.

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Dell Avamar
April 2024
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UQ
Deputy Manager at Reliance Industries Ltd

We're using Dell Avamar for data and endpoint protection.

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Aamir Ilyas - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Presales Consultant at Mindware

Our clients have found Avamar to be effective for their backup and disaster recovery needs. It serves as a comprehensive data protection suite, meeting the requirements of all virtualization platforms.

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Vivek Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at Shriram Pistons

We use the Dell Avamar solution to backup endpoints, including desktops and laptops. We also use it to back up virtual servers using Dell Avamar. With this server, we take backups of all the employees' desktops and laptops. We haven't encountered any backup and restore problems with Avamar. If we will need any support, we will get it from Dell.

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HS
Manager Private Cloud Solutions at ufone

Our company has more than 5,000 employees, and we use the Avamar solution for the protection of our rear environment, we are protecting 1,500+ VMs using this solution.

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SK
Professional Service Manager at Wish Enterprise Group co., ltd

My clients use Avamar to back up VM solutions on VMware's infrastructure.

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Mohab Thair - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Technology Engineer at DIL Technology

We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application.

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Mansoor Ahmed Salim Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Unit Head Systems Admin at Emirates National Schools

My primary use case is backend storage for our VMs. We are fully virtualized, using VMware for our virtualization layer, and we use multiple VMs for our applications, so we have multiple workloads for the education school information systems. Then we have our ERP and HR systems, and our infrastructure monitoring the networking solutions, and so on. All these VMs are backed up using Avamar.

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RO
Unix Architect at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

It is a backup solution. So, we do daily backups of around 3,000 VMware guests. That is normally just an image backup where it goes to the VMware API, backs up the image file, and then puts it on the backend to Avamar into Data Domain. It has a specialized storage system that does dedupe and compression, so we can get more on a single disk array. We have more than one site. We have a primary site and a secondary site.

At the Data Domain level, we replicate site to site every backup every day so that we have the availability in our secondary site for every VM. The replication is done with the architecture of the Data Domain itself. 

We have the rapid recovery solution that allows you to stand up any box at either location and have it come up online within just a minute or two. That's done via NFS. It becomes a data store into VMware, and then you vMotion it out. So, it has got rapid recovery at both locations as well.

We are using its newest version. We keep it up to date.

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Vaidyanathan Swaminathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Tech RIdge Solutions

Dell Avamar is a source-based backup solution. It is the best backup solution for people with laptops and desktops from various offices with a small bandwidth. We also use it for remote office backup tasks.

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TawfikOUKICHA - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud and Data Center Consultant at MUNISYS

Mainly we suggest it to our users, to our clients, when it comes to a fully virtualized environment of VMware.

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Rahul Sarangdhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We're a solutions provider with backup and recovery software as our main focus, and my work deals with customer support for the backup domains from an architect's perspective.

Usually, it's for on-prem server backup. It's mostly virtual. We have VM backups and subsequent file backups, and we do file restores. In addition, the customer I work for has old Domino Notes, and we also provide support for that with Avamar.

We mostly work with its latest or latest minus one version. It depends on the bug fixes and vulnerabilities in a version.

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AL
VP Global Infrastructure at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use Avamar for all of our backup and data management solutions in our co-location facility. I have two co-location facilities with one in Carrollton, Texas, and one in Austin. 

I have data domains, Avamar platforms, and Avamar software that we use across our enterprise. 

I manage a global technology team and a global infrastructure team. We use those platforms across all of our data centers, as well as on our sites where we have on-premises storage for either our Burrtec solutions or Isilon solutions that we have in territories, where we have to have data remain in the country due to the compliance requirements. We use it globally.

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Jerome Edwards - PeerSpot reviewer
Ops Specialist: System Engineer Backup at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

When Avamar started out, it used to be for a small to medium environment, but now it's done a lot of changes and it's a good backup solution, especially within your VMware environment.

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CR
Storage specialist at Vodacom Business

It specifically caters to the backup needs of our data, ensuring secure and compliant operations.

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AP
Project Engineer at Concept Information Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

We are using Avamar as support for the VMware Virtual Machine Backup. The chain blocking is very good. With Dell Avamar, we have integrated with Dell EMC Data Domain. It has a 97% completion ratio. That's the reason we are using Dell EMC Avamar.

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DK
MIS Manager at Misr Glass Manufacturing

We have three sites. We deployed Avamar on one site three years ago then added the same setup for the other sites. Following best practices, we're using Avamar with Dell Data Domain for data compression and deduplication.

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AS
Senior Engineer, Disaster Recovery at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is our main backup system while we're in the middle of switching over to Cohesity.

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MM
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Specialist at Fiber Nisr

Our company is Dell EMCs largest partner in Egypt and the Middle East. We have a titanium partnership with them and I'm the senior infrastructure solutions specialist.

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AA
Pre-Sales Manager at ACS

We're using it in our company. We primarily use the solution as a backup.

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Vivek Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at Shriram Pistons

I'm using the solution for our entire daily data backup for laptops and desktops. We also use it for some of our virtual machines and some of our databases systems.

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Steve McClendon - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The primary use case is for remote office or branch office type protection.

We don't have a current instance. It is pretty old. We have tried desperately to decommission Avamar.

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MA
SAN and UNIX Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for tape backup and data domain. It is an on-premises deployment.

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SN
DGM Data Centre at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for our desktops and laptops end-users. We have a network in place for server backup and archive.

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it_user762030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup Systems Engineer at Nordstrom, Inc.

This product is very easy to use. The interface is easier to use than other backup solutions. The product is mature and can handle all of our data protection.

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KA
System Administrator at sang

Our primary use case for Dell Avamar is for backup purposes.

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OJ
System Analyst II at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our use case for this solution is robust and involves backing up various systems.

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PurwandiPurwandi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at PT. Sigma Cipta Caraka (Telkomsigma)

We use it as a backup and restore solution for our customers. For replication, we use the Data Domain application. We replicate from our primary site to the DR site.

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RN
Deputy General Manager ( Practice Head Data Protection and Migration) at Netmagic Solutions (An NTT Communications Company)

I recently stopped using this product because my work moved away from operations and I'm now a patents director, so I generally do the designing. My client was looking for backups and for an application along with a desktop backup. We are partners with Dell and I'm the deputy general manager of the company. 

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RW
Storage Management Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We deal with data that has compliance requirements for long-term retention, which is like 10 years plus the life of the client. As long as they're in our program, we have to keep anything related to them for that time period, which can run up to 30 years. We deal with all things related to that. I'm a storage management specialist and we are customers of Dell. 

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PK
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution as a backup. Avamar is used to back up our production workloads. Production workloads include Oracle, EBS, SharePoint, file and print service, other application services.

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AK
Backup Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We are using Dell EMC Avamar for backing up our virtual environment.

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DW
Storage Administrator at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for virtual infrastructure.

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AA
Manager of Production Systems at COMERCIAL CITY FRESKO

Backup of virtual machines.

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Murad Sultanzadeh - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Dell Avamar is integrated with data protection and data domain. We have integrated it with vCenter and a couple of virtual machines from Dell Avamar to the data protection sources.

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Robert-Nilsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Gignos

Dell EMC Avamar is a backup solution. It has integration with the hardware that Dell has and you can backup many things, such as snapshots.

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Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
Modern Data Center and Cloud Engineer II at IE Network Solutions PLC

We primarily use the solution the database replications in web hosting, mostly.

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OM
Architecte Backup at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case of this solution was for projects to backup customer laptops for the application capabilities.

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RC
Vice President at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We use Dell EMC Avamar for backing up the data on the endpoint devices of the users.

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DR
Head Cyber Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We use Dell EMC Avamar for our critical servers backups.

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CD
Principal Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was initially used for remote office, branch office backups, but eventually, it started to be used for small and large data centers.

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PL
Lead Systems Software Engineer at Tucson Medical Center

File level, backup and recovery of data stored on AIX, Linux, and Windows server to Data Domain storage.

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reviewer1315983 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use this product for Windows and Linux servers, and we have both file and database backups stored on them. We use them at smaller sites, which are small offices that are located around the world.

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SL
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We are system integrators who are selling backup solutions, and Dell EMC Avamar is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

I had come across it for backing up laptops and VMware but previously, I have had clients using it to backup system machines like AIX, Solaris, and others. Slowly, people are moving away from those.

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HZ
Expert IT Infrastructure and Systems at ITGSTORE CONSULTING

As solution providers, we provide solutions to meet the objectives and goals of customers. We provide a general global architecture and the right solution that will solve a customer's problem and meet the goal at the fixed cost. If the customer doesn't mention a specific provider, then to meet the goal, we use the provider that we have to.

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Maciej-Kieliszek - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at EXnIT

We use the on site version.

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SS
System Admin at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

We recently stopped using this solution but it was being used to back up our servers and client machines.

We were using an on-premises deployment.

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Samuel Sencion - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor de servicio técnico at Hyh solutions

Our primary use case for Dell Avamar is backup and verification.

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OI
General Director at miromix unitedMiroMIX United

Dell EMC Avamar is used for backups and data recovery.

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SA
Founder & CEO at Technomatters

My customer has a huge virtual environment — vCenter and VMware. They need images backed up, they have different workloads like Oracle, SAP, and NetWorker. They have a compliance policy that they have to tape out but Avamar, out of the box, cannot do the tape out. That's why I had to introduce NetWorker into the picture.

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RC
Responsable des Systèmes Départementaux at CIH BANK

We use the solution to protect our virtual machine.

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AC
Analista de Sistemas SR at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

When I was working for a company we used Dell EMC Avamar to backups of the system's data.

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MA
System Operation Engineer at Stayfit

We primarily use the solution as a backup.

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RS
Senior Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution can be used for the backing up of all environments, including those which are virtual and involve databases and applications. 

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SA
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

In a data center, the entire workloads are virtualized, and they are backing up the content, and sometimes because of bandwidth, operations need to be backed up quickly. In that kind of scenario, this source site replication is very supportive. Avamar evaluates the data that's already backed up, and only the chain blocks can be transferred via the network. There won't be any heavy network traffic, and the time it takes to backup is quick and within the window.

On the client-side, we can also backup clients with Avamar. These days with the pandemic, most of them work from home, and we're using less network bandwidth to backup end user transfers.

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AA
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are system integrators. We resell, we deploy, and we support our clients.

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AZ
Presales Engineer at Eta2u

In Romania, more customers own their enterprise software. But the new wave wants to also try cloud data centers and cloud backup and so on.

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SJ
Trainer, storage consultant at Oxon

Data backup is our primary usage of the solution. 

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VP
SAN Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution for backups and restoring.

The solution can be deployed on cloud or on-premises.

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RV
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use a basic called a DPS. Typically, we are using mostly networkers just to back up most of the workloads, like cellphone audio ware and the connection, et cetera.

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RN
Product Manger at System Plus

The primary use case is backup, but in this case, my customers want to offload the Avamar server on tape.

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Buyer's Guide
Dell Avamar
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Dell Avamar. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.