We performed a comparison between Actifio and Dell Avamar 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."Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The solution is very stable."
"Client deduplication."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"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."
"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The solution should improve its tape-connectivity features."
"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
Actifio is ranked 32nd in Backup and Recovery with 7 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and Zerto, whereas 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). See our Actifio vs. Dell Avamar report.
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