Dell Avamar vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP comparison

Dell Avamar

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Dell Avamar

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (11th), Deduplication Software (3rd)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Storage (1st), Cloud Backup (9th), Public Cloud Storage Services (5th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell Avamar is 4.4%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery

Unique Categories:

Deduplication Software

9.5%

Cloud Migration

20.6%

Cloud Storage

14.7%

Featured Reviews

Samuel Sencion

Supervisor de servicio técnico at Hyh solutions

Mar 16, 2023

Direct activity feature is very helpful; good tech support

Our primary use case for Dell Avamar is backup and verification Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups. We can tell machines to do backups in the application. The most valuable feature for me is direct activity. This solution could improve by introducing daily…

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reviewer2304738

Systems Administration at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Nov 2, 2023

Improved uptime, easy to use, and good support

By implementing this solution, we wanted to achieve simplicity. We were trying to get away from reconfiguring everything all the time to work so that we could just get down and implement things within a very small window of time. They would not require a lot of reconfiguring each time. The main benefit is accessibility. We are able to access it from anywhere. We are able to move things to what we need or are able to pull back the data when it is needed very quickly. We can restore the databases when I need to. We have a single pane of glass. It helps a lot because time is always the essence. The simplicity comes in handy. It saves quite a bit of time. I do not have to sit down and do all the things. I am able to go in and hit a couple of things. I can deploy, modify, or do whatever needs to be done. It takes seconds versus hours. Once you learn the tool, it is very simple to work from the same point. When it first came out, it was very clunky. It took some time. It took some learning, whereas now, you can catch up pretty quickly. After you start to fine-tune it a little bit, you are able to work with it. Earlier, it was a pain. I can see how much storage I have left and what I am working with. I can see the alerts. It gives me time to start working on what I need to procure at that point. It has helped to right-size our workloads. It has been great. It has significantly dropped our downtime for volumes and improved the access for clients. It has helped out a lot in those aspects, so I can stay ahead of the game instead of behind the game. That is where that tool comes in handy. It is great when it comes down to pinpointing problem areas. It catches things before they become a problem, so I can keep my clients up and going and functioning. It has been great in that aspect. I am a big fan of analytics because they give me the chance to be able to keep the clients up and going. That is my biggest thing because when they are down, we lose a lot of money, and we lose a lot of clients, so the ability to make sure that I am up almost 100% percent and being able to stay ahead of the game is a huge win for us.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."

"The installation of the solution is easy."

"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."

"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."

"We've found the product to be stable."

"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."

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

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

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"There is unified storage, which provides flexibility. It is set up perfectly for performance and provisioning. We are able to monitor everything using a separate application. It provides error and critical warnings that allow us to take immediate action through ONTAP. We are able to manage everything, log a case, and follow up with the support team, who can fix it. That is how it is unified."

"Replication to the cloud is the most valuable feature. Deduplication and compression are also very important to us. We are in the process of adopting to the cloud. We are going to AWS and we are trying to do a safety technician call out with integration to the cloud. NetApp allows us to move some of the volume to the cloud, at the same time that we continue providing the cloud services that we have on premises."

"Lastly, the API and web services are fairly good. That is an important feature too. We write some code to do different things. We have code that runs to make sure that everything is being backed up as we say it is and we try to also detect places where we may have missed a backup."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of file storage."

"This solution has made everything easier to do."

"This solution has helped us because it is easy to use."

"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."

"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."

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Cons

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

"The screen design is a bit back-dated."

"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."

"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."

"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."

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

"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."

"Interfaces need to be improved."

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"Scale-up and scale-out could be improved. It would be interesting to have multiple HA pairs on one cluster, for example, or to increase the single instances more, from a performance perspective. It would be good to get more performance out of a single HA pair."

"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."

"I would like some more performance matrices to know what it is doing. It has some matrices inherent to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP. But inside Cloud Manager, it would also be nice to see. You can have a little Snapshot, then drill down if you go a little deeper."

"The dashboard is a little bit clunky. I like to see it a little bit more on the simplistic side. I would like to be able to create my own widgets and customize what I want to see a little bit more versus what is currently there. That would be helpful so that when I log in, I go straight to my widget or my board without going to multiple places to get to what I need to find or build."

"We are getting a warning alert about not being able to connect to Cloud Manager when we log into it. The support has provided links, but this particular issue is not fixed yet."

"When it comes to a critical or a read-write-intensive application, it doesn't provide the performance that some applications require, especially for SAP. The SAP HANA database has a write-latency of less than 2 milliseconds and the CVO solution does not fit there. It could be used for other databases, where the requirements are not so demanding, especially when it comes to write-latency."

"We've just been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy."

"The only issue we had lately was that outside our VPC we could not reach the virtual IP, the floating IP. I heard that they have fixed that..."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is easy to use."

"Its licensing is weird. It is not just the licenses; we also purchase hardware. With most software products, such as Veeam, Commvault, and Data Protector, there is no hardware purchase at the same time. Because Avamar and Data Domain are tied together, they have an integrated pipe. You can separate them, but basically, they're designed to work as a couple. Because the Data Domain backend is designed to do dedupe and compression, we get 60:1. When you count it, you count it as a straight compression, but of course, that's with dedupe and some other stuff. You have to buy the hardware, the licensing, and the software at the same time. So, it's not just software."

"The price of this product should be lower."

"The cost of the solution is very expensive."

"It is expensive. The maintenance comes with it for five years. So, you buy the whole thing for five years, and your maintenance is included with it, but it's a big chunk of change upfront. We like capital expenses because we can CapEx them. We pay once every five years, so we spend a big chunk of change. You'd have to divide that out by the five years to come up with how much it costs. It's just about three-quarters of a million dollars for five years."

"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."

"Licensing fees are paid annually."

"It's an expensive tool"

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"Overall, the pricing of NetApp is aggressive and the pricing becomes more aggressive as the amount of data increases. The cost for a given volume of data that you are storing becomes lower. The greater the volume of data, the cheaper the license."

"If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp."

"Compared to other storage vendors, NetApp, is not always able to compete with their pricing. Yet, we acknowledge the ease of use ONTAP brings with the AWS integration."

"Cost is a big factor, because a lot of companies can't afford enterprise grade equipment all the time. They skimp where they can. I would recommend that they improve the cost."

"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was good, but it was a test system, not a real purchase."

"For enterprise customers, it's a very cost effective. But in the SMB segment, yeah, pricing is a little bit challenge for your time."

"They have a very good price which keeps our customers happy."

"They give us a good price for CVO licenses. It is one of the reasons that we went with the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

48%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 do you like most about Dell EMC Avamar?

It's stable and offers good performance.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The solution is costly. Competitors are less expensive. However, Dell Avamar is the right tool if we want to protect our critical systems and receive proper engineering support.

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What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

The solution's pricing is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP should improve its support.

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Comparisons

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs Dell Avamar

Compared 26% of the time

Veeam Backup & Replication vs Dell Avamar

Compared 17% of the time

Dell NetWorker vs Dell Avamar

Compared 13% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs Dell Avamar

Compared 6% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs Dell Avamar

Compared 6% of the time

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Azure NetApp Files vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 13% of the time

Amazon S3 vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 12% of the time

Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 11% of the time

Red Hat Ceph Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 7% of the time

Google Cloud Storage vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Compared 6% of the time

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Dell Avamar

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Also Known As

Avamar

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO

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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.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

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

1. Accenture 2. Acer 3. Adidas 4. Aetna 5. AIG 6. Apple 7. Bank of America 8. Barclays 9. Bayer 10. Berkshire Hathaway 11. BNP Paribas 12. Cisco 13. Coca-Cola 14. Comcast 15.ConocoPhillips 16. CVS Health 17. Dell 18. Deutsche Bank 19. eBay 20. Eli Lilly 21. FedEx 22. Ford 23. Freescale Semiconductor 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. Honeywell 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. Intuit 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. KeyCorp 33. Liberty Mutual 34. L'Oréal 35. Mastercard

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