We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and OpenText Data Protector based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We've found the product to be stable."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The product is very powerful and offers very good performance."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"We have seen huge data reduction and data deduplication and compression, which is very cost-effective and cost-reducing for the company."
"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"It is one of the best solutions for backing up Oracle and other servers."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"It is very easy to use and the interaction with various systems is very handy."
"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."
"What we find most valuable in Micro Focus Data Protector is that it provides Japanese data protection, for example, it protects information such as the full Japanese name, address, etc."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The command-line interface is user-friendly and well documented in the reference guide."
"The reliability of HP Data Protector is the most valuable feature for us."
"The initial setup was relatively easy."
"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."
"Dell Avamar could improve by adding more backup features."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"It would be better if we could integrate easily with other platforms."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"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."
"It's an expensive solution."
"I do not think that this solution is relevant in the current IT market. They have not upgraded their features and functionalities which makes it difficult for them to remain competitive."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"If you compare the solution with the same specific features and enhancements on another solution, Data Protector is expensive. This is especially true when compared to, for example, Veeam."
"The technical support was very slow."
"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."
"Other tools seem to be easier to use."
"In SAP restoration, we faced issues with changing the SIDs and changing the path for every backup object. It is quite a lengthy process to do that."
"The product can be developed by including functionalities like DR, CDP, and SureBackup, which are currently unavailable in the solution."
Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. 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 OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". 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 OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, Symantec Data Loss Prevention and HPE StoreOnce. See our Dell Avamar vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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