We performed a comparison between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Networker based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dell EMC Avamar wins out in this comparison due to its robust performance as well as its impressive data reduction and deduplication abilities. In addition, Dell EMC Avamar received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"It is a very complete product."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"Client deduplication."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"The support for legacy products is very good."
"It is an extremely stable product."
"The most valuable feature of Dell NetWorker is its quick configuration and handling of large databases."
"The GUI is the best feature. It's very good and easy to use."
"The solution is scalable."
"The standout feature of Dell NetWorker is its expertise in handling our VMware environment."
"The software implementation takes about 30 minutes."
"The interface is user-friendly and can be used by the end-users."
"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"Avamar is not the best tool when it comes to taking Azure backups. Like Commvault, if Avamar can support VM-level backups for the cloud, that would make it a bit better."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"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."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"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."
"There should be more vendors incorporated into the solution."
"The deduplication needs improvement and it could use better integration."
"They need more support for image backups."
"The solution could be graphically better."
"The user interface is hard to use, it should be simplified. There are a lot of web-based management interfaces which they should consider."
"The software also isn't user-friendly like Convault or Rubrik. The solution errors and management aren't so good in comparison."
"While upgrading to a new version, we encounter challenges related to specific algorithms or code regulations."
"It's complex in nature."
Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, while Dell NetWorker 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 Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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