Dell Avamar vs OpenText Data Protector comparison

Dell Technologies and OpenText are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Dell Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1, while OpenText is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0. Dell Technologies holds a 2.6% mindshare in BRS, compared to OpenText’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

OpenText Data Protector

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80% willing to recommend

Dell Avamar

OpenText Data Protector

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Avamar and OpenText Data Protector are competing data protection solutions. Dell Avamar appears to have the upper hand due to its superior deduplication and recovery speed, while OpenText Data Protector stands out for its comprehensive feature set and flexibility.

Features: Dell Avamar’s key features include efficient data deduplication, quick recovery times, and robust cloud support. OpenText Data Protector users appreciate its wide platform support, advanced security features, and extensive customization options.

Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar users indicate improvements could be made in scalability, interface complexity, and flexibility. OpenText Data Protector could benefit from enhanced reporting features, simplified maintenance processes, and better user experience in terms of management functionality.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar is considered straightforward to deploy, with dependable customer support. OpenText Data Protector, while flexible, presents challenges in deployment complexity. Users prefer Dell’s support responsiveness, highlighting a smoother overall experience.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar has a higher upfront setup cost but delivers strong ROI through reduced storage requirements via deduplication. OpenText Data Protector, while competitively priced, offers moderate ROI due to additional costs for maintenance and support.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (5th)

OpenText Data Protector

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell Avamar is 2.6%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Data Protector is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell Avamar	2.6%
OpenText Data Protector	0.8%
Other	96.6%

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SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

Have supported critical environments despite room for improvement in legacy backup options

It is very efficient in cyber resilience. Deduplication, automation, and everything is very efficient. It is multi-cloud enabled and has broad protections. The software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery options through its cyber resiliency features. Dell PowerProtect Manager provides insights in managing backup processes. Its encryption mechanisms are very efficient, helping to secure sensitive data. Its integration with Dell EMC Data Domain is very good. It is easy to integrate with Data Domain. Multi-cloud options are enabled, and backup in cloud options exist in Dell Avamar.

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Jeroen Vranckaerts

System Engineer - Server & Storage, DBA at Audi Brussels

Though a highly stable tool, it needs to be made easier to use and configure

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a five out of ten. OpenText Data Protector is complex to configure correctly, but the areas concerning the data and compression are good. Once you get the product to work, it works, but it's much too complex to configure and troubleshoot, as it takes a lot of time and energy, making it not so efficient. Once the tool is configured in your environment, it provides good backup and compression features. In my company, we use OpenText Data Protector as a backup for our servers, and we have a team of 20 people to take care of the data backup using the tool. My company doesn't use OpenText Data Protector as a backup for our client's computers. In my company, we have scheduled the process related to backup, which makes the tool run daily around 30 to 40 times.

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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

"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."

"The product is good for backups."

"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."

"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."

"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."

"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."

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

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

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"Data Protector is quite simple and easy to deploy. The deployment is always the same. It's on a server, and the agents are deployed to the machines in a straightforward way. We have two engineers who deploy and manage all our backup solutions."

"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."

"What I like the most about this solution is that I can change and access the Oracle backup file."

"The solution is easy to use."

"The tool's most valuable aspect is its ease of management. It was not complex. In terms of features, I can mention a couple of things. For example, if you need to restore a VM, you can do it with multiple streams in OpenText Data Protector, which is an advantage over Commvault, from what I've noticed, having worked with multiple tools. Another thing is the Oracle backups; configuring Oracle backups is much easier in OpenText Data Protector."

"The command-line interface is user-friendly and well documented in the reference guide."

"The feature that was most valuable was that we could restore one mailbox and we could do different backups for different databases."

"The normal file system backup is easy to manage, and our success rate is quite high."

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Cons

"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."

"The licensing price must be reduced."

"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."

"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."

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

"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."

"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."

"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."

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"VMware backup integration and cloud recovery is lacking."

"Faster VEAgent Restores"

"OpenText Data Protector is more difficult to use and configure than OpenText VIM. The user-friendliness of OpenText Data Protector has to be increased, and the complexity of the tool needs to be reduced."

"The technical support was very slow."

"The interface has been the same for many years and needs to be updated"

"I don't like this solution so much because it's very technical and compared to Commvault and Veeam, it's not so user-friendly. The interface needs improvement."

"VM backups needs to be improved. They need to make it similar to the way Veeam and Commvault are doing the virtual backups."

"Other tools seem to be easier to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is expensive. Its cost is the main thing."

"When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."

"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."

"It is easy to use."

"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 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."

"Dell Avamar is expensive."

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"Our licensing is on a capacity basis."

"Avoid using many LTO drives; when using fewer drives, the price will be extremely good."

"The licensing structure provides cost savings to business."

"The pricing is around $3,000 to $5,000. The charge additionally for support and to scale."

"We have many competitors who are pricing better, and we believe that our pricing is higher."

"The license for the solution is very expensive compared to the other products in the market."

"Pricing for Micro Focus Data Protector is reasonable."

"It is fast, reliable, and its licensing policy is great."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	48

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	61

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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What do you like most about Micro Focus Data Protector?

I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Data Protector?

The solution is expensive as it requires purchasing all features without the option to negotiate based on client numbers, unlike Veeam which offers flexibility in pricing.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Data Protector?

OpenText Data Protector is not user-friendly, especially for cloud backup. It lacks functions and facilities compared to Veeam, which offers more user-friendliness for virtual machine backups. Ther...

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Also Known As

Avamar

Micro Focus Data Protector, Data Protector, OmniBack, HPE Data Protector

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

OpenText Data Protector standardizes and consolidates backups across multiple platforms. It provides secure, comprehensive backup protection for business-critical data and applications whether virtual, physical, or online in the cloud.

OpenText

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

GSK Vaccines, Repsol, Vodafone Group, Siemens AG, Medium Enterprise Transportation Services Company

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