We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: When searching for the best Backup and Recovery Software solution, PeerSpot users feel Veeam Backup & Replication is the best choice. Veeam offers great integrations, scales easily, is very easy to use and is very cost-effective. Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"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."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"Veeam Backup Replication is easy to use and has high performance. The backups are very fast. It's a complete solution that fulfills our current needs."
"Replication is most valuable."
"Veeam is easy to use."
"Veeam is the gold standard for backup and recovery. The ease of use and reliability of this solution are real assets. Also, it has an ease of use to work with a third party vendor."
"Once you get it set up, everything is smooth, and the recovery is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the continuous backup."
"It is cost-effective. A lot of times, people pick Veeam because of its price."
"What I like most about this solution are the simplicity and the price-performance ratio."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"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."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"The recovery is a bit slow."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem."
"The solution could improve by having a version to be compatible with the Linux system. They have improved the storage depository using the Linux proxy and Linux storage, but it can completely run on the Linux environment it would be much better."
"think backing up from physical servers and ransomware security needs some improvements."
"The Cloud version is not ready, they need maturity and ease of deployment in terms of management."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product."
"Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus."
"In terms of what could be improved, when creating a backup job with Veeam, you can create a daily backup, but it doesn't do it within that job. It does not give you the ability to also set the terms for monthly and/or weekly backups. It has to be a separate job. It gets clunky to manage the timeframes where you don't want a daily to run on this day and creating weeklies. And you don't want a daily to run on this day doing monthlies. That is hard to deal with. It would be really nice if you could do it through a single command line or a single interface."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. 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 Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Microsoft DPM. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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