We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and N2WS Backup & Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"It is a very complete product."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"The setup is very easy."
"The product is successful with the SMB market."
"N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances."
"Provides easy, one-click functionality and flexible backup policies and schedules for AWS workloads."
"The backup and recovery are the most valuable features. So, our developers can work with confidence."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The backup and restore functionality is very easy to use and manage."
"The recovery time is fantastic and proven. Also, by providing a simple interface, the solution lowers the cost."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"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."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"The support is very bad."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient."
"The GUI has room for improvement."
"Additional features I would like to see are the ability to restore to different vendors, AWS and Azure, and/or the ability or take the information out of the AWS cloud."
"The UI is a little dated and hard to use. Some of the buttons are a bit small. You have to go into the menu to get the settings you want."
"The GUI could be slightly improved."
"More documentation would be helpful, especially some step-by-step documents for recovery scenarios."
"There is room for improvement in stability."
"It's a global feature that the customer thinks they don't have enough tools to manage, to copy, to delay, and to classify the object file in the backup directory. So they need more tools to manage files in object directory."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while N2WS Backup & Recovery is ranked 36th in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while N2WS Backup & Recovery 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 N2WS Backup & Recovery writes "A highly stable and easy-to-use solution that can be used for backing up EC2 instances". 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 N2WS Backup & Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, AWS Backup, Rubrik, Clumio and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. See our Dell Avamar vs. N2WS Backup & Recovery report.
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