Arcserve UDP vs Dell Avamar comparison

Arcserve and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.0, while Dell Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Arcserve holds a 1.2% mindshare in BRS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Dell Avamar are robust data protection solutions. Dell Avamar appears to have the upper hand, excelling in features and user satisfaction, whereas Arcserve UDP is favored for its cost-efficiency.

Features: Arcserve UDP offers comprehensive backup solutions, strong disaster recovery tools, and efficient snapshot management. Dell Avamar is noted for efficient data deduplication, robust cloud integration, and integrated appliance options.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP needs a more user-friendly setup, faster backup speeds, and better scalability. Dell Avamar should improve its reporting capabilities, reduce complexity, and enhance its analytics features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP's deployment is straightforward with effective customer support. Dell Avamar's deployment is more complex but offers valuable customer service, making the effort worthwhile for users.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP offers competitive pricing and high perceived ROI with lower setup costs. Dell Avamar is more expensive but is considered worth the investment due to its advanced features and long-term value.

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (11th)

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.2%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell Avamar is 3.3%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

TeresitaSabile

Head of Operation and IT at Elgrade Inc

Cost savings and efficient decompression but needs better cloud integration

Our primary use case for Arcserve UDP is its decompression feature, which helped us save money by reducing storage needs. Despite moving to cloud applications, we have been using Arcserve UDP for backup and disaster recovery Arcserve UDP has helped our organization save considerable amounts of…

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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

"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."

"I like the tool's speed."

"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."

"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."

"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."

"The standard backup and restore feature is most used."

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."

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"The solution is very user-friendly."

"It's a good solution."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."

"The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."

"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."

"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."

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

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Cons

"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."

"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."

"The solution can use a lot of bandwidth when the scheduling is not done, it should auto-schedule itself. For example, if there are 50 users connected in the network at 12 o'clock and the backup is not scheduled. At this time the network offices are going to have performance issues when it is doing a backup. Having a feature to auto-schedule a time when the network is not being used often would be beneficial."

"StorageCraft ShadowProtect can improve by making one console that can control backups of all desktops and servers in one place. Additionally, the recovery process of the backups is very slow and could improve. It's very slow when we went to recover a complete disc but to recover one file is very fast."

"The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup. It's a problem when I have five servers to backup. When I only want to change the size of the drive, I have to do a full backup that can take one week."

"We cannot restore each user's mailbox. Each user's mailbox should be independently restorable. Also, this solution is very slow. If you select all of the servers, it runs for a long time... It needs to be faster. Finally, If anything happens to one server we should be able to switch to another server."

"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."

"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."

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"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."

"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."

"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."

"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."

"Interfaces need to be improved."

"There also needs to be single sign-on support."

"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The retail fee is $1300 for a year for one server. Other than that, there is just the cost of your hardware."

"The licensing cost is for one year. There are not any hidden costs involved in the pricing model of the solution."

"The solution is very expensive."

"The price is based on the number of sockets. We use a four-socket price that includes two servers and the cost is $4,375."

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

"I do not work with the pricing or licensing issues of the solution for our organization."

"In comparison to other vendors, it is a low-cost solution."

"The solution is priced well compared to other solutions."

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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."

"The solution is costly."

"The solution is not expensive for the value one gets."

"I rate the tool's price as a three out of ten if one means expensive and ten means it is a cheaply priced tool."

"When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."

"The current pricing is generally satisfactory."

"On a scale of one to five, I would rate the pricing policy of Dell Avamar as five. The solution has a very good price, and a lot of improvements were done to it."

"Dell Avamar is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Non Profit

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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What do you like most about StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

The interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive most of the time. Scalability is nice. The multi-tenancy feature is very welcome. The integration with Linux works fine too.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

Pricing for SPX MRP/MSP is under $400 per server (Single VM) with a 1-year subscription. After discounts, it could decrease by 20%-30%, and opting for a 3/5/10 server pack may offer even better (lo...

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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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Comparisons

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Compared 37% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 5% of the time

Veritas Backup Exec vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 34% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

Dell NetWorker vs Dell Avamar

Compared 9% of the time

Rubrik vs Dell Avamar

Compared 6% of the time

Commvault Cloud vs Dell Avamar

Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

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Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

Arcserve

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.

Dell Technologies

Sample Customers

ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services

Dodge County, St Laurence's College, FieldCore (a GE Company), Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Getronics, Lewisville Independent School District, EnvisionRxOptions, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions

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