Dell Avamar vs INFINIDAT InfiniGuard comparison

Dell Technologies and INFINIDAT are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Dell Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while INFINIDAT is ranked #77. Dell Technologies holds a 3.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to INFINIDAT’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of INFINIDAT users who would recommend it.

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

INFINIDAT InfiniGuard

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

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)

INFINIDAT InfiniGuard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

77th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell Avamar is 3.3%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of INFINIDAT InfiniGuard is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

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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Jim Ganong

Supervisor, IT Operations at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fast data recovery for large scale datasets

The Infiniguard (dedicated disc storage), offers a petabyte of storage space for on-site disc storage for backups. Because of this, we were able to get rid of our tapes. Essentially, it replaced our tape backups. We're definitely going to be buying another INFINIDAT array. We do have another location that is going to be needing a new array sometime soon, so we'll be buying another one. The beautiful thing about them is that you can set them up to replicate for disaster recovery between the two of them and set up some nice replication jobs, site to site, for automatic database replication.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"All the features in the system are highly valuable."

"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."

"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."

"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."

"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."

"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."

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"Essentially, it replaced our tape backups."

Cons

"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."

"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."

"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."

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

"It's not the best solution for big databases."

"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."

"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."

"The client caches and deduplication system have a few problems."

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"I would like to see more improvement in the GUI."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."

"It was very expensive before, but after integrating it with Dell EMC Avamar Data Protection suite licensing, we are getting better discounts."

"The solution is not expensive for the value one gets."

"Dell Avamar, including its virtual add-ons and cloud-based offerings, is cheaper than other solutions, but in the end, the price still depends on your use case. Price-wise, I'm rating Dell Avamar as six out of ten."

"There are licensing costs for Dell EMC Avamar and it is paid annually."

"I'm not sure, but perhaps the pricing could be done better at the moment."

"The price is the main thing I'd like to see them change. If they can come down in price, that would be a good thing. It's very cost competitive in the entry level range, because Veeam pricing is much cheaper than Avamar."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

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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Also Known As

Avamar

InfiniGuard

Overview

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.

Dell Technologies

InfiniGuard provides fast, reliable data backup and restore for business continuity/disaster recovery. Built with InfiniBox to optimize performance and target-side dedupe to maximize effective capacity for multi-petabyte datasets.

INFINIDAT

Sample Customers

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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