We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veritas Backup Exec 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."Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"It works quickly and is very stable."
"The setup is very easy."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"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."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"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."
"Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. 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 Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". 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 Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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