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 7.3, 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

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (10th)

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

12th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 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 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

MukundKambli

Senior Solutions Architect at Team Computers

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

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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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."

"The most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."

"The recovery part of the product is very good."

"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."

"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."

"This product is extremely user-friendly and it is capable of performing large-scale archive/backup (five+ years worth). It is easy to store, maintain, and check backups."

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

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"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."

"I have found the product to be scalable."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."

"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."

"The installation of the solution is easy."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"We sell Avamar with Data Domain. Data Domain and Avamar work really well together and their compression ratios are very high compared to Veeam, Commvault, and all the other backup software on the market."

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Cons

"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."

"Licensing is an area that needs improvement."

"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."

"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."

"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."

"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."

"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."

"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."

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"Setup and deployment of this solution is complex and requires expert engineers."

"Backup image browse times should be faster."

"The tool's interface is very much in a spreadsheet format...reporting is an area with shortcomings requiring improvement."

"The recovery is a bit slow."

"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."

"Reporting in Dell Avamar needs improvement. The current reporting tool is very basic, and you have to dig deep into each function to get the information you need. For example, getting the status of failed and succeeded backups is very difficult in Avamar compared to Veeam. As for additional functionality, I would suggest improving WAN optimization. It's very important for getting offline or off-site backups. It should also include a tool to check for ransomware which would be beneficial. If a backup is vulnerable to ransomware, there should be a way to detect it, like using ARR rules to ensure your backup is ransomware-free. I haven't had any experience integrating Dell Avamar with AI solutions. It’s also a good point that Avamar doesn't offer such integrations, which is an area where Dell could improve."

"The UI is quite old. We've been using this UI since last year, and they haven't changed it. It would be better to update the UI periodically and create attractive dashboards from an administrative point of view."

"The product could offer more integration capabilities."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The price of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is competitive in the market."

"I do not work with the pricing or licensing issues of the solution for our organization."

"There is an annual license required for this solution and it is priced well."

"As an MSP partner, I believe that the prices are fair."

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

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

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a four or five out of ten."

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

"Licensing was generally on a per VM or terabyte basis. They changed their licensing model a couple of times and turned it into socket-based licensing, which is an improvement in their licensing model."

"Its licensing is weird. It is not just the licenses; we also purchase hardware. With most software products, such as Veeam, Commvault, and Data Protector, there is no hardware purchase at the same time. Because Avamar and Data Domain are tied together, they have an integrated pipe. You can separate them, but basically, they're designed to work as a couple. Because the Data Domain backend is designed to do dedupe and compression, we get 60:1. When you count it, you count it as a straight compression, but of course, that's with dedupe and some other stuff. You have to buy the hardware, the licensing, and the software at the same time. So, it's not just software."

"The solution is expensive."

"Dell Avamar, including its virtual add-ons and cloud-based offerings, is cheaper than other solutions, but in the end, the price still depends on your use case. Price-wise, I'm rating Dell Avamar as six out of ten."

"Regarding pricing, I would say Avamar is slightly expensive compared to its functionalities. It's not high-priced or low-priced but somewhere in between."

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

"It's a very high-end solution and comparable to Rubrik and Cohesity."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Non Profit

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 is not competitive enough.

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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Comparisons

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 30% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

Veritas NetBackup vs Dell Avamar

Compared 5% 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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