We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"The solution is very stable."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"We've found the product to be stable."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"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."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"EMC has discontinued their Avamar hardware version. They only advertise the Avamar virtual edition."
"Backup image browse times should be faster."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 63rd in Backup and Recovery. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. 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 Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". 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 Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud, Arcserve UDP and IBM Spectrum Protect.
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