Altaro VM Backup for MSPs vs Dell Avamar comparison

The compared Hornetsecurity and Dell Technologies solutions aren't in the same category. Hornetsecurity is ranked #6 in MB , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 4.4% mindshare in the category. Dell Technologies is ranked #7 in BRS , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Hornetsecurity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs

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Altaro VM Backup for MSPs

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Categories and Ranking

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

MSP Backup (6th)

Dell Avamar

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (7th), Deduplication Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs and Dell Avamar aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is designed for MSP Backup and holds a mindshare of 4.4%, down 6.2% compared to last year.
Dell Avamar, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 3.2% mindshare, down 3.6% since last year.

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Anthony Linder

Information Technology Application Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees

An incredibly stable product with a great user interface

Improvements are needed in the solution since it might get difficult if you just drop a technical person who doesn't necessarily have a lot of experience with Altaro VM Backup for MSPs. A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times. In Altaro VM Backup for MSPs, if you expect something to be somewhere else or when you expect a certain part of the user interface to function in a specific way, it doesn't happen so since the functionality that you expect to be there in the product isn't present on that screen and you need to go somewhere else for that piece. I think that is the case with the most complex tech products. I would like to be able to store a full cluster environment inside of Altaro VM and make sure that the cluster communicates inside of the product, presuming that we have the necessary backup drive in our company. Altaro VM already can test individual VM restores, but one can't really go beyond that scope, at least with the version of the solution that we have in our company right now.

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Ayodeji Oyewole

Managing Director at Atlantic factorial

Reliable with good backups but has occasional failures

I use Dell Avamar primarily for backup and recovery The most valuable feature for me is the backup functionality. It gives large enterprises the comfort of knowing their workloads are being backed up. There are instances where backups fail on certain applications, which is an area that could be…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Granular restoration is extremely useful in Altaro VM Backup for MSPs since it is something that we make use of the most in our company."

"It's stable and offers good performance."

"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."

"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"It is a very complete product."

"The solution scales well."

"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 are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."

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Cons

"A technical person who hasn't received any dedicated training or hasn't gone through the documentation part of the solution may find the product to be a little non-intuitive at times."

"Dell EMC Avamar is a very complex product. It took a lot of time for the IT admins to get trained on how to use it. It is not very user-friendly, and we won't be using Avamar anymore. It needs a lot of improvement in terms of how the backups have been configured, and the reporting is too complex."

"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."

"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."

"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."

"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."

"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."

"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."

"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."

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"Regarding pricing, I would say Avamar is slightly expensive compared to its functionalities. It's not high-priced or low-priced but somewhere in between."

"Dell EMC needs to lower Avamar's price and add more features to stay competitive."

"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."

"It might not be beneficial to smaller businesses due to its high cost."

"Licensing fees are paid annually."

"It is expensive. The maintenance comes with it for five years. So, you buy the whole thing for five years, and your maintenance is included with it, but it's a big chunk of change upfront. We like capital expenses because we can CapEx them. We pay once every five years, so we spend a big chunk of change. You'd have to divide that out by the five years to come up with how much it costs. It's just about three-quarters of a million dollars for five years."

"It was very expensive before, but after integrating it with Dell EMC Avamar Data Protection suite licensing, we are getting better discounts."

"The cost of the solution is very expensive."

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Financial Services Firm

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Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Altaro VM Backup for MSPs?

Granular restoration is extremely useful in Altaro VM Backup for MSPs since it is something that we make use of the most in our company.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Altaro VM Backup for MSPs?

To be honest, I don't get to see the bill for Altaro VM Backup for MSPs.

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What needs improvement with Altaro VM Backup for MSPs?

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What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The cost is very significant, and it could be lower.

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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Overview

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is a comprehensive backup solution designed specifically for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Its primary use case is to provide reliable and efficient backup and recovery for virtual machines (VMs) in multi-tenant environments.

The most valuable functionality of Altaro VM Backup for MSPs is its centralized management console, which allows MSPs to easily monitor and manage backups for all their clients from a single interface. This streamlines operations and saves time, enabling MSPs to efficiently handle large-scale deployments.

Altaro VM Backup for MSPs offers a range of powerful features, including flexible scheduling, granular restore options, and support for both Hyper-V and VMware environments. It also includes advanced features like Augmented Inline Deduplication, which significantly reduces storage requirements and speeds up backup and restore processes.

By providing reliable and efficient backup and recovery, Altaro VM Backup for MSPs helps organizations ensure business continuity and minimize downtime in the event of data loss or system failures. It also enables MSPs to offer value-added services to their clients, enhancing their reputation and increasing customer satisfaction.

Hornetsecurity

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.

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