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.
"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."
"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."
"We love the instant recovery functionality. It's very useful."
"It's simple to configure."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"NetWorker has very good scalability."
"Very user-friendly with a good interface."
"Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly."
"The backup software has been much faster since we've deployed the solution."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The interface is user-friendly and can be used by the end-users."
"The solution has minimized the recovery time objective, and the recovery point objective, the RTO and RPO. Most customers are looking for to minimize downtime. The solution has helped ensure this."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"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."
"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The support is very bad."
"Since the product is not on the front banner of Dell, the support may not be the best."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing and more integration with the other products in Dell EMC."
"The deduplication needs improvement and it could use better integration."
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure the solution."
"Dell NetWorker could improve the GUI to include rack recovery."
"Lacks a restore feature."
"When you're working with VMware, you need to use vProxy machines. You have to install the vProxy for every host in the VMware environment."
"The licensing rules are difficult to navigate and understand."
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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