We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP 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."One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"There are many backup options available in this solution. For example, you are able to do backups of servers, email, OST files, and users. This is a complete backup solution which is very good."
"It is very stable."
"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."
"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Arcserve has a feature called virtual standby (VSB), which has been very helpful because I already have a hot standby copy of my critical infrastructure. If something breaks, I can spin up that virtual standby copy in less than five minutes and ensure that my data is available to everyone and that business continuity is maintained."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"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."
"The solution is very stable."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."
"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"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."
"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."
"Licensing is an area that needs improvement."
"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 solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". 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". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik, 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 Arcserve UDP vs. Dell Avamar report.
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