We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and IBM Storage Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"Client deduplication."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"It's a good solution."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"The tool's backup engine is very powerful. Previously, our client finished backup with HPE product in 48 hours. IBM Storage Protect completes backup in 8 hours."
"The best point about IBM Storage Protect is that it can use IBM tape environments, which we still use and will continue to use in the future."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."
"The support is very bad."
"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."
"The product should improve its GUI. It should also support Windows clustering."
"The solution is expensive."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while IBM Storage Protect is ranked 41st in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while IBM Storage Protect is rated 8.0. 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 IBM Storage Protect writes "A stable enterprise solution for backup and restore". 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 IBM Storage Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect.
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