Dell Avamar vs Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] comparison

Dell Technologies and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 87% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Dell Avamar

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Dell Avamar

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (12th), Deduplication Software (3rd)

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8.4

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Featured Reviews

Sebastien Chene

Senior Business Development Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Sep 30, 2022

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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Muhammad Ibtehaj

Senior Technical Pre-Sales Manager at Arcana Info

Feb 1, 2023

Easy to use and mange with reasonable pricing

It's not a big use case. It's just to install and back up the users. I recently had a project with a client with 500 users, and they wanted the client to back up from a specific folder or a specific file. I just deployed a backup portal, and then I pushed the agent on the client. I discover it, I…

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

Pros

"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."

"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."

"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."

"The most valuable features are image backups and file backups."

"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."

"Scheduling is valuable. It does a good job of backing up, and it does a good job of restoring. Nobody has got a problem with that. The agents are well supported."

"Avamar has long been the best in its class, but that's changing as new solutions emerge. However, Dell has traditionally been a leader in deduplication and compression. Avamar enabled us to shift data from on-premise local appliances to data centers and multi-tenant infrastructure. That's a powerful feature. because customers can back up to the cloud without upgrading o high-capacity links or congesting their backups."

"We've found the product to be stable."

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"The solution is useful for taking backups for end-user laptops and end-user workstations where data is involved."

"The user interface is good. It provides a lot of information."

"Technical support is good."

"The most valuable features are backup and restore. This solution is also easy to use."

"The most valuable feature is that it's a VMware environment."

"If you have windows machine at home and you'd like a backup, you can always download their free edition and plug in an external hard disk, and do a full backup of your laptop."

"The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is easy to use and performing a recovery is easy to do."

"The solution is meeting all of our client's requirements. It has good performance."

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Cons

"This solution could improve by introducing daily verifications and another repository."

"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."

"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."

"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."

"It lacks support for certain plugins, like SAP HANA, for example."

"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."

"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."

"The licensing model is not very flexible. Every time we upgrade our storage size, we need to upgrade the Avamar license."

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"The predictability of the solution needs improvement. Sometimes, if it's doing something at the back end, it may go slow. Today, the backup completion took four hours, but sometimes it can do the backup in 30 minutes or an hour. With solutions like NetBackup, I can predict to a much higher degree of certainty how long something will take to complete."

"The compression ratio and application ratio could still be improved in this solution. Reporting could also be improved, for better monitoring."

"The stability of this solution needs to be improved."

"There should be an option to use the solution for physical machines."

"There really are no cons. The product simply has to maintain development to keep up with changes in the operating system."

"Updating and configuration can sometimes be a little bit of a hassel, but once you know the product better it is easy to use."

"I would like there to be more integration with other platforms."

"We can't use tape for primary storage on Veeam."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is expensive. Its cost is the main thing."

"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."

"Its price should be reduced. It would be good if you could pay as per usage, and there is a subscription model like VMware. There should be some flexibility because sometimes, the customer only uses the backup for one month or three months. Currently, I have to pay whether I use it or not. Its licensing should be flexible and based on consumption."

"It is easy to use."

"It was approximately $70-80,000 when it was under support, but right now EMC has not been supporting this product for two years."

"Dell Avamar is a moderately priced solution."

"It might not be beneficial to smaller businesses due to its high cost."

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"The solution is free of cost for end users but for enterprise use, a license per user is required."

"We have the Community Edition and I believe we bought a license for 200 instances. Veeam Agent is mainly used for our branch offices. Those only have one or two Hyper-V servers, so it's covered with the Community Edition. Basically, it's free. I remember Veeam 7.0 or 8.0 wasn't free, but the Community Edition is."

"The licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis, and the fees are much lower than what I pay for NetBackup."

"We have an annual license."

"The cost for its licenses is reasonable and as per industry standards."

"We are on an annual license to use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. There are not any additional fees to use the solution."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, and pricing can be a disadvantage or a weakness for this solution."

"It is less expensive than one of its variants."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

19%

Retailer

10%

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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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The pricing from Dell Avamar and Dell NetWorker side has been based predominantly on front-end terabytes. That is the option that we have been dealing with, and the front-end terabytes basically sa...

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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What do you like most about Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?

It's powerful and user-friendly.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?

The pricing is very good compared to Micro Focus. It is very affordable.

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What needs improvement with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?

We don't have any issues with the solution. We do not need any other features. The integration with MS Storage and Dell Media needs to be simplified. Micro Focus may be better in this area as it of...

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Overview

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.

What is Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a robust, trusted data protection and recovery solution for both physical and virtual machines. This solution can be used to safeguard all kinds of machines and devices, such as desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Veeam Agent for Windows can easily be installed on all Windows-based physical servers, workstations, desktops, and virtual machines, and works well in either a standalone or managed mode.

It is widely understood that all users should back up all stored data on a regularly scheduled basis to protect all important data. In the event of a data disaster, data can easily be restored from the backup using this solution and one would never have to experience a loss of important information. Users can implement Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows to perform regularly scheduled backups automatically, or manually, as needed. Users can choose to back up individual folders and files, designate particular computer files, or even the entire computer image.

Backups can be saved in several different locations, such as:

Cloud Repository (Veeam Cloud Connect)
Backup Repository (Veeam Backup Server)
Network Shared Folder
Local Computer Drive
Removable Storage Device (USB, CD, DVD, etc)
Microsoft OneDrive

Veeam Agent for Windows users are able to:

Create a Veeam Recovery Media file on an external hard drive, CD/DVD/BD, internal hard drive, or choose to establish an ISO file using Veeam Recovery Media on disk.

Create a comprehensive system image backup and securely back up chosen computer volumes or specific personal folders with files. Users have the option to store backups in a network shared folder on an external hard drive, or use the Veeam backup repository, Veeam Cloud Connect Repository, or Microsoft OneDrive.

Veeam Data restore offers two options:

Volume-level restore: Veeam Agent is able to restore the complete content of the entire volume. The solution retrieves the data blocks pertaining to the designated volumes and copies them to the desired location. A volume can then be restored to a new location or its original location.
File-Level Restore: Veeam Agent will use Veeam’s proprietary driver to publish backup content safely to a user's computer file system. Users can then access the content user Veeam’s Virtual Disk Driver (VDK), which is included with the solution. Users can then easily browse and copy the desired files and folders to use as desired.

Veeam Recovery Media

Veeam Agent for Windows allows users to create a complete recovery image of their computer using Veeam Recovery Media. This image contains all data necessary to run Microsoft Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) while supplying a viable option to run users’ computer systems.

Reviews From Real Users:

“We use Veeam Agent for security as well as to ensure we have a backup should the server or discs fatally die. We are a small company with just one building, we want to be sure that should a server be gone we have a backup in the cloud so that we can survive.” - Director at a tech services company

“The compatibility of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with other solutions is good. Its integration with other solutions is also good. I also find the product user-friendly.” - Business Development Manager at a tech services company.

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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