We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar, IBM Spectrum Protect, and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"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."
"It is a very complete product."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"The installation of the solution is easy."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"You can scale the product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"The deduplication and compression features are the most valuable features."
"We optimize our costs of media and storage use, thanks to the Incremental Forever backup. The TDP software provides us many ways to protect our data, so we don't need to use monstrous scripts for doing backups now."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."
"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."
"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."
"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."
"I find the solution somewhat difficult to use with virtual environments or VMware."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"The solution is evolving, so it has to be evolved to fit all new types of software requirements too."
"Replication of data could be more user friendly."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The solution could always be more easily scalable."
