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's stable and offers good performance."
"Dell EMC Avamar has many valuable features. It's very stable and it's easy to manage."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."
"It's simple to configure."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"Anybody could drive the GUI."
"The software is quite complicated and useful for large corporations using different information systems."
"The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication."
"The updated graphical interface is better than it used to be."
"I feel that it is a good product."
"It is scalable software. All you need to increase is its RAM and CPU. It's pretty easy."
"When it was required that data had to be restored for our customer, it was accomplished successfully and this has kept our end users satisfied."
"The extensive information provided on tool properties has been very useful, specifically the information on databases"
"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 interface could be more helpful for people."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"We have had a lot of problems with the Dell EMC Avamar solution. The snapshots are not being erased after backup."
"The screen design is a bit back-dated."
"Its ability to back up very large objects can be improved. In terms of new features, they can include the ability to use cloud services, like S3, more natively."
"The implementation process could be improved."
"It is not easy to understand and deploy. It is complex in nature. Simplicity is not there. When we deploy it, the customer always needs some training from us. To make it user friendly, there should be one agent that can be used to back up every product. Dell EMC NetWorker uses so many user agents. In PowerProtect Data Manager, you can just install its VM, import that VM into vCenter, and you can start to do backups directly from vCenter. However, in Dell EMC NetWorker, you always need one server, and from that server, you need to initiate all backups. You must know the interface and the CLI. It is not user friendly. It would be a great feature if we can deploy Dell EMC NetWorker on a virtual machine, like Avamar. The additional features that are required in Dell EMC NetWorker are already available in PowerProtect Data Manager and Avamar. Therefore, there is no need to enhance Dell EMC NetWorker. It would be better if they can just rename it to PowerProtect Data Manager or Avamar."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"The data storage capabilities should be improved."
"There are too many reboots and the software requires constant updating."
"Lacks a restore feature."
"Reporting and support for this product need to be improved. There are multiple bugs that need to be fixed."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, 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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