We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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."All the features in the system are highly valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Data Domain and your VM stacks."
"The solution is very stable."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."
"It works quickly and is very stable."
"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"The solution's stability is high because it is derived from Spectrum Protect."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"The support from IBM is very good."
"A full-featured data protection solution that is reliable and stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"This is a multi-platform backup solution where you can take a backup from AIX, Windows, or Linux servers and restore from CD, disk, or tape."
"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
"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."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"The solution should allow for backup of iOS snapshots."
"The software's technical support could improve its response time for different time zones."
"I would like integration into where the VMware guys can do their own restores."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"Rooms for improvement in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are installation and configuration because those were difficult. They should try their best to improve those areas. In the next release of the product, better implementation and administration are what we're expecting."
"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."
"The one issue we are facing is related to file restores."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
Dell Avamar is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.8, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is rated 8.0. 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 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". 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 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik. See our Dell Avamar vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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