We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veritas NetBackup Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"It's simple to configure."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"Stable and scalable backup and recovery software, with good technical support."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Avamar would have to be the way it works over needing very little bandwidth to move data across a WAN or LAN."
"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."
"The documentation is okay. You are able to follow it and it is helpful."
"This is a good backup interconversion solution because all the masters and the targets backups are on the same system. It is easy to administrate for a single point of access for clients."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas NetBackup Appliance is duplication and covers many applications."
"The solution has a very easy-to-navigate user interface."
"Installing this solution is very simple and takes perhaps five or ten minutes."
"We can add multiple appliances to the product."
"The initial setup gets easier the more you do it."
"The solution is useful for backups."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
"The desirability of appliance solutions is dwindling in the marketplace."
"The monitoring could be a bit better."
"NetBackup Appliance's pricing is reasonable, but it could be lower."
"Feature-wise, it is quite good, but it is very costly. Its price has gone up quite significantly over the years, and that makes people like us look at alternatives."
"Sometimes, the user interface doesn't work smoothly."
"It would be a better solution if we were able to make more reports in regards to the backup system."
"I would like the ability to recover a single folder within the backup of a virtual machine."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 6th in Deduplication Software with 47 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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 Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". 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 NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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