Dell Avamar vs Zerto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Avamar and Zerto are prominent solutions in the data backup and disaster recovery space. Zerto seems to have the upper hand due to its features, and users feel it is worth the price.

Features: Dell Avamar is praised for its efficient data deduplication, reliable backup capabilities, and comprehensive data management. Zerto is recognized for its continuous data protection, seamless replication features, and advanced disaster recovery functionalities.

Room for Improvement: Users of Dell Avamar suggest enhancing reporting capabilities, improving restore speeds, and reducing the time required for initial setup. For Zerto, users recommend better integrations with third-party tools, an improved alerting system, and a more user-friendly interface for easier management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar deployment is straightforward but can be time-consuming. Users mention that Dell's customer service is responsive and helpful. Zerto offers a simpler and quicker deployment process, and its customer service receives high marks for effectiveness and speed.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar is generally perceived as more affordable, offering good value with its comprehensive backup solutions. Zerto, although pricier, delivers better ROI due to its advanced features and efficiency in disaster recovery. Users are willing to invest more in Zerto for its superior capabilities.

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Dell Avamar vs. Zerto

October 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

12th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (3rd)

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

282

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell Avamar is 3.6%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 2.7%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Girish Agarwal

Security Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2023

Easy to use, quick to understand, and simple to set up

It's easy to use. It wasn't too difficult to start with. With most vendors, initially, you have a learning curve or configurations. In this case, Zerto was quick to understand. The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple. The experience is comparatively good with Zerto. The near-synchronous replication has not been used much. That said, it does help when talking about storage layers. The availability of the VMs is good. In terms of resiliency, there are a lot of benefits to it. Most have a recovery of 24 to 48 hours; Zerto has gotten recovery down to four hours. We've done a POC with a DR to AWS. It was limited, however, it worked well and there was support. We didn't run into any challenges. The effect on the RPOs has been excellent. It's been impacted greatly. Customers enjoy the shorter timeline to recovery. The customer confidence is high.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."

"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."

"Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup."

"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."

"The most valuable feature of Avamar would have to be the way it works over needing very little bandwidth to move data across a WAN or LAN."

"I like Dell EMC Avamar's compression of data."

"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."

"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."

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"The most valuable for us and for my company is that we are replicating most of our production customers to the DR site, and we can do testing whenever we want."

"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."

"The ease of use and simplicity in moving things without having to do a cross-v set of V-motions has been most valuable. It saves time and effort and it eliminates mistakes."

"The DR - Disaster Recovery - is the main selling point."

"Stable disaster recovery solution with a very simple setup and fast failover."

"The ability to fully test your entire environment without actually performing a failover is invaluable."

"The main valuable features are the fast RPO and RTOs we could achieve and the analytics behind that."

"The live failover tests and point-in-time recovery options have been exceptionally valuable features of Zerto for our organization."

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Cons

"The only concern is the cost."

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

"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."

"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."

"Performance can sometimes be affected when tools are utilized for tasks like backup or deep archiving."

"A huge storage space needs to be bought with Dell Avamar, even when it's unnecessary for an organization"

"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."

"The reporting should be improved, as we currently have to use another tool for that purpose."

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"Sometimes, the menu buttons do not respond properly and can be slow to react."

"The performance was generally good, but occasional lag disrupted the flow, leaving room for improvement."

"They are doing a lot of great things, but I have heard that Zerto is expensive."

"The native Zerto implementation requires quite a big environment. My environment is rather small. I do not have hundreds of virtual machines."

"If there is a mass of changes to a server, Zerto will restart the replication. It would be nice to know why that happens."

"The limitation with Zerto is that you're required to have one Zerto Manager per virtual center, and this means that you're only able to replicate one way. Technical support for this product was fantastic, before they were acquired by HP. You're now able to tell that the company is becoming too big, in terms of the support they provide."

"Adding or changing VPGs (Virtual Protection Groups) may require restarting replication."

"The new licensing model didn't work out for us because we used one-to-one replication."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a very high-end solution and comparable to Rubrik and Cohesity."

"Dell Avamar is expensive."

"On a scale of one to five, I would rate the pricing policy of Dell Avamar as five. The solution has a very good price, and a lot of improvements were done to it."

"There is a license required for this solution."

"There are licensing costs for Dell EMC Avamar and it is paid annually."

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

"When it comes to competition the price is not what is important, it's not the problem."

"This solution is less expensive than Veeam for us, although it depends on the customer because we get a great discount."

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"It is very expensive. It is overpriced. No doubt. What held us up for many years from committing to buying it was always the cost. That's also why we only have 10 licenses."

"Zerto is like a Ferrari. It's very fast but not the cheapest solution. You're paying a high price for quality and the assurance that you will have the environment up and steady."

"The pricing is fair."

"Zerto is slightly expensive, but we do see the value in it."

"We paid a big investment upfront with renewal fees each year."

"My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was straightforward."

"The price is reasonable."

"The pricing seems reasonable. It's still within what we consider to be value-add."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

The pricing is not competitive enough.

What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Zerto is priced high.

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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.

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

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

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies