We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Dell Data Protection Advisor 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 easy to work with and is user-friendly."
"It's simple to configure."
"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."
"Avamar's source side deduplication is very strong, it can easily back up remote sites' data, and not much bandwidth is required on the Avamar side."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The reporting feature and the Dell's continuous improvement of the solution are the most valuable features. The solution not only supports Dell Power Products but also other products."
"This is a stable solution."
"I can increase the tool's licensing as per my requirement with no conditions applied."
"The platform's most valuable features are data protection and retention."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the compression and the duplication."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible and has a lot of out-of-the-box functionality. You can configure the dashboards or you can use a script. However, to fully utilize its capabilities you will want to use a lot of scripts which you will need advanced training. The reports can be customized for many things, such as chargeback billing."
"It has a lot of stock reports. I believe over 300 canned reports, which for the most part meet a lot of generic needs."
"It generates very detailed reports, which makes things easier when it comes to IT auditing."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"It is difficult to manage the solution with the available tools. You need to know exactly what are you are doing."
"The solution requires more integration with our other solutions. I know that they have full integration with VMware because it is also from EMC. However, we have to have better integration with Microsoft and Nutanix as well."
"They should empower their customers with the ability to upgrade this solution as long as it's in the same major release."
"We have encountered issues where we were unable to pull data from the database server. It should also improve the backward compatibility."
"Dell Data Protection Advisor's feature for data domain protection needs enhancement."
"It's a bit difficult for first-time users."
"Customization of reports or creating new reports can be difficult. Users need to have a deep knowledge of SQL. 70-80% of customers can't seem to understand how to do it. They don't know how to address reporting. If Dell EMC could simplify it, it would benefit the end-user."
"The functionality of the Data Protection Advisor is limited and is something that is lacking in this solution. Other solutions like CloudIQ and DDMC provide a much better outlook on how data protection should be done."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell Data Protection Advisor is ranked 53rd in Backup and Recovery with 10 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell Data Protection Advisor 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 Dell Data Protection Advisor writes "A Easy- to -Setup and Stable cloud-based Data management solution". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Zerto, whereas Dell Data Protection Advisor is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Cohesity DataProtect, Dell NetWorker and Rubrik. See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell Data Protection Advisor report.
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