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Dell Avamar vs Quest QoreStor comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Dell Avamar support varies; prompt resolutions praised but language barriers, delays, and post-EMC acquisition challenges affect satisfaction.
No sentiment score available
Quest QoreStor customers praise responsive, knowledgeable support with strong communication and high satisfaction ratings for issue resolution.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.1
Dell Avamar needs user-friendly updates, better integration, improved support, and enhanced features for modern environments at competitive pricing.
Sentiment score
4.2
Quest QoreStor users seek better security, enhanced usability, improved installation, increased capacity, and better removable media backup support.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Dell Avamar is scalable, fitting various company sizes but may incur costs when expanding infrastructure for increased data volumes.
Sentiment score
7.3
Quest QoreStor is scalable and flexible for enterprise backup, with options for deduplication and minimal maintenance needs.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Dell Avamar pricing is seen as high, with discounts for larger organizations and cost variability due to licensing models.
No sentiment score available
Quest QoreStor offers competitive pricing with capacity-based licenses, but third-party integration may incur additional costs.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
Dell Avamar is stable and reliable, but sensitive to shutdowns; users rate it 7-10 and appreciate infrastructure support.
Sentiment score
9.5
Quest QoreStor is highly stable and reliable, with seamless operation and minimal issues reported over two years.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.3
Dell Avamar excels in deduplication, fast recovery, ease of use, platform integration, and efficient, comprehensive data protection.
No sentiment score available
Quest QoreStor reduces storage costs with data deduplication, integrates with backup software, and offers encryption, cloud tiering, and archiving.
 

Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
12th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
Deduplication Software (3rd)
Quest QoreStor
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
96th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Data Replication (22nd), Disk Based Backup Systems (7th), Storage Software (7th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (47th), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (37th), Copy Data Management (9th), File and Object Storage (54th)
 

Featured Reviews

Sebastien Chene - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
WS
Multi-thread backups and snapshotting have eliminated the scheduling issues we had to deal with around backups
I can only replicate into one cloud environment or what they call a Cloud Tier. This might be because of the level of my license, but I was hoping, for security of data, to be able to back up into multiple Cloud Tiers. The cloud provider I work with has facilities where I am, here in Boston, but they also have a facility in Dallas and pretty soon they're going to have a facility in London. But the current software that I have will only allow me to do one. It would be nice to have the security of knowing that, in a super-disastrous situation where we lost our data center and the cloud environment in the same facility, we would have data stored remotely in another facility across the country. It would cost me twice as much but it's not very expensive to put this relatively small amount of data into the cloud. If I had that option I would do it.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Non Profit
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What do you like most about Dell Avamar?
Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.
What else besides data replication does QoreStor offer?
Quest QoreStor can be used for multiple things besides data replication. For example, it can be trusted to make a backup of your data. You know that replication and backups are different, right? Re...
How does Quest QoreStore protect your data?
One of our favorite features of Quest QoreStore for data protection isn't the backup, actually, though we're using it actively (maybe just as much as data replication, to be honest). We absolutely ...
How does Quest QoreStore solve repetitive data replicas?
When I first found out about data replication and the many benefits it had, I couldn't help but wonder - what about the copies you don't need? Like it's unavoidable for some of the copies to get da...
 

Also Known As

Avamar
QoreStor
 

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Sample Customers

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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