Asigra vs Dell Avamar comparison

Asigra and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Asigra is ranked #69, while Dell Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Asigra holds a 0.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Asigra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

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90% willing to recommend

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Avamar and Asigra compete in the data backup and recovery solutions category. Asigra seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and ease of deployment.

Features: Dell Avamar users highlight its efficient deduplication, integration with various storage options, and scalability. Asigra is recognized for its agentless deployment, comprehensive backup features including virtualization support, and strong security measures.

Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar could improve in reducing complexity in its initial setup, enhancing reporting capabilities, and speeding up backup processes. Asigra users suggest improvements in interface intuitiveness, faster restoration times, and better customer documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar's deployment process is often seen as complex, although its customer service is well-regarded. Asigra users find the deployment to be straightforward due to its agentless nature, and its customer service is also highly rated.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar is relatively high in cost but offers a strong ROI due to effective deduplication. Asigra is noted for being cost-effective with a strong ROI, attributed to lower setup costs and efficient usage.

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Categories and Ranking

Asigra

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

69th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 Asigra is 0.3%, up from 0.2% 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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reviewer1361796

Manager Technical Procurement & Logistics - Global IT at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Affordable, easy to use, and offers good pricing

The solution is primarily used for the backup of the endpoints within our organization The solution has been very stable. It's quite easy to use and simple to navigate around. The performance has always been very good. The pricing of the product is excellent. I wouldn't describe it as a…

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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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Pros

"It has helped us to provide comprehensive data protection with high recovery rates and a malware scanning feature."

"The solution has been very stable."

"I have found all the features useful in the solution."

"The agentless architecture has minimized our software footprint at the client level."

"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."

"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."

"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."

"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."

"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."

"The installation of the solution is easy."

"I have found the product to be scalable."

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Cons

"They should improve the malware scanning capabilities, extending it to protect cloud application data."

"The management could be a bit better."

"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."

"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."

"There are instances where backups fail on certain applications, which is an area that could be improved."

"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."

"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."

"The support is very bad."

"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."

"Avamar needs a greater emphasis on storage targets. If it's going to keep pace with the times, it needs more ability to leverage cloud storage."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Asigra could improve, it is expensive. We have purchased an annual license."

"Asigra is priced competitively, but requires technical expertise to operate, optimize, and maintain its services."

"Its price should be reduced. It would be good if you could pay as per usage, and there is a subscription model like VMware. There should be some flexibility because sometimes, the customer only uses the backup for one month or three months. Currently, I have to pay whether I use it or not. Its licensing should be flexible and based on consumption."

"The cost is high."

"This is a fairly expensive solution. It cost approximately 21,000 each year."

"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."

"Dell's pricing structure is not overly expensive."

"It is easy to use."

"The solution is expensive."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

13%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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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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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

Asigra makes award-winning enterprise backup and recovery software that leads the industry in secure, reliable, manageable and affordable data protection. Asigra Cloud Backup works in the cloud or on-premise, for everything from mobile devices to entire data centers.

Asigra

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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Sample Customers

British Red Cross, Special Olympics, London and Capital, L and K Bennett London, The Commonwealth, Hanrick Curran

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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