We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Dell Avamar based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Backup nudges ahead of Dell Avamar in this comparison. Azure Backup is a secure, stable solution that users trust. The connectivity to data is very reliable. Dell Avamar can be a bit clunky, takes up a lot of resources, and the overall performance is a bit slow.
"The most valuable feature is the ease in which it backs up our data."
"The scalability has been good."
"The most valuable features of Azure Backup for us are its flexible retention options and the ability to recover to a second region with geo-replication and read access."
"It is a stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"The deployment process is quite easy in Azure."
"There is only one feature, and that is the backup."
"It's very simple to configure which is very useful. It's not complex to configure it."
"You can select the tiering for your backup and manage your cost."
"Its stability and deduplication capabilities are most valuable."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."
"They need to improve the frequency of the backup. You can only backup one to three times a day. It would be better to back up continuously throughout the day."
"We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"We would like to see some kind of notification given to the user that a file was not synchronized well or what may have happened."
"I would like to see better integration with more products, and more services."
"The tool's backup should be faster. Azure Backup's support should be faster."
"The time required to restore files should be a little faster."
"The solution could improve by having better integration and more flexibility."
"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."
"Avamar is still competitive because of the way we have deployed it, but we need to diversify and shift away from specific technologies. In addition to hypervisors, virtual machines, and bare metal servers, our customers need protection for Microsoft 365, SaaS, and the public cloud, so we need other technologies in the business to cater to those customers' needs. Those are the enhancements we would want from the Avamar platform, but that's not likely to happen. Dell has PowerProtect and Apex backup services. There are other Dell solutions that we'll use to fulfill our customers' requirements."
"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."
"The support is very bad."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Druva Phoenix, whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and DD Boost. See our Azure Backup vs. Dell Avamar report.
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