Arcserve UDP vs Dell Avamar comparison

Arcserve and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.5, while Dell Technologies is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.8. Arcserve holds a 1.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Dell Avamar are robust data protection solutions. Dell Avamar appears to have the upper hand, excelling in features and user satisfaction, whereas Arcserve UDP is favored for its cost-efficiency.

Features: Arcserve UDP offers comprehensive backup solutions, strong disaster recovery tools, and efficient snapshot management. Dell Avamar is noted for efficient data deduplication, robust cloud integration, and integrated appliance options.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP needs a more user-friendly setup, faster backup speeds, and better scalability. Dell Avamar should improve its reporting capabilities, reduce complexity, and enhance its analytics features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP's deployment is straightforward with effective customer support. Dell Avamar's deployment is more complex but offers valuable customer service, making the effort worthwhile for users.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP offers competitive pricing and high perceived ROI with lower setup costs. Dell Avamar is more expensive but is considered worth the investment due to its advanced features and long-term value.

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

18th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (9th)

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

12th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.3%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell Avamar is 3.6%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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MukundKambli

Senior Solutions Architect at Team Computers

Nov 8, 2022

Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options

I give the solution ten out of ten. This solution offers one dashboard to manage the BC con, disaster recovery plan, DR solution, and backup as well as different licensing options, unlike other OEM products. We are the system integrators for our clients, so we design the solution as per the customer's requirements. We provide several solutions options to our clients such as Druva inSync, Druva Phoenix, and Arcserve UDP with the specifications and the client makes a decision based on their requirements. I would advise potential users to first be clear on whether they are going to use it as a backup solution for compliance purposes, just wanting to take the backups of files and servers, or for instant recovery. The IQ and RPO discussion with our customers usually takes 30 minutes. I recommend this solution.

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Sebastien Chene

Senior Business Development Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Sep 30, 2022

Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh

What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."

"Easy restoration and the solution works quickly."

"It's simple to set up."

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is its decompression capability."

"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."

"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."

"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."

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"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."

"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."

"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."

"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."

"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."

"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."

"The tool's most valuable features are backup management and speed."

"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."

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Cons

"One of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."

"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."

"Licensing is an area that needs improvement."

"We cannot restore each user's mailbox. Each user's mailbox should be independently restorable. Also, this solution is very slow. If you select all of the servers, it runs for a long time... It needs to be faster. Finally, If anything happens to one server we should be able to switch to another server."

"The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup. It's a problem when I have five servers to backup. When I only want to change the size of the drive, I have to do a full backup that can take one week."

"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"StorageCraft ShadowProtect can improve by making one console that can control backups of all desktops and servers in one place. Additionally, the recovery process of the backups is very slow and could improve. It's very slow when we went to recover a complete disc but to recover one file is very fast."

"We are looking at scaling up to the cloud and using immutable copies on the cloud. Arcserve UDP 8.0 does have the immutable feature supporting AWS, but I'm looking for multi-cloud support. So, I'm waiting for Arcserve to release that in the next release."

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"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."

"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."

"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."

"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."

"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."

"The only concern is the cost."

"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."

"The support is very bad."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Normally our customers purchase the premium plus license, rather than the standard one, which provides more options."

"The solution is not very expensive, but it is not cheap."

"The solution is expensive."

"There are annual subscription fees and there are licensing costs for three computers. It is an expensive solution."

"I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The licensing cost is for one year. There are not any hidden costs involved in the pricing model of the solution."

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

"The price is based on the number of sockets. We use a four-socket price that includes two servers and the cost is $4,375."

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"On a scale of one to five, I would rate the pricing policy of Dell Avamar as five. The solution has a very good price, and a lot of improvements were done to it."

"When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."

"It is easy to use."

"It is very expensive. It's a trust based licensing. So that's an ethical challenge."

"This solution is less expensive than Veeam for us, although it depends on the customer because we get a great discount."

"It might not be beneficial to smaller businesses due to its high cost."

"Avamar's pricing is quite competitive compared to other vendors."

"The price of this product should be lower."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

Non Profit

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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What do you like most about Arcserve UDP?

The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is the initiative UI and the logs are clear and detailed that are generated when there has been an issue or failure on the user's system. We only have to l...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arcserve UDP?

The licensing cost is for one year. There are not any hidden costs involved in the pricing model of the solution.

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What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The pricing from Dell Avamar and Dell NetWorker side has been based predominantly on front-end terabytes. That is the option that we have been dealing with, and the front-end terabytes basically sa...

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 29% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

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Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

Sample Customers

ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services

Dodge County, St Laurence's College, FieldCore (a GE Company), Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Getronics, Lewisville Independent School District, EnvisionRxOptions, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions

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