We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Druva Phoenix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software."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."
"The product is good for backups."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"It is a very complete product."
"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."
"It's simple to configure."
"Once you set it up and you tell it exactly what needs to be backed up, you literally forget about it. It sends you emails and notifications of the current status of the jobs."
"Druva Phoenix is easy to use and easy to start with."
"I would definitively say that we have been able to make our people more productive by at least 30%."
"The most valuable features of Druva Phoenix are the simple portal to log in and flexibility."
"I found the cost-effectiveness of Druva Phoenix to be its most valuable feature, especially when compared to on-premises backup solutions."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"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."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"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."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"Druva Phoenix should include a few reporting features that it doesn't provide currently."
"They were able to give us a very reasonable price considering we were non-for-profit organizations, however, there is always room for improvement on that cost."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting aspect of Druva Phoenix."
"Druva Phoenix is optimized to work with x86 platforms, making it unsuitable for backing up non-x86 architectures like AIX. The solution is primarily designed for physical Linux and Windows systems based on the x86 architecture, as well as virtualized Windows and Linux environments. However, if you have an AIX system, it cannot be deployed in the cloud, and therefore, backing it up in the cloud is not a concern."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Druva Phoenix is ranked 15th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 5 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Druva Phoenix is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Druva Phoenix writes "Cost-effective and has excellent technical support". 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), whereas Druva Phoenix is most compared with Druva inSync, Azure Backup, Veeam Backup & Replication, AWS Backup and Rubrik.
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