What advice do you have for others considering Dell Avamar?

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Deduplication is the reduction in network bandwidth requirement, first of all. It also reduces storage space requirements, which you benefit from as your infrastructure costs less. Your backup runtime is less as well if your network is a bottleneck in any way. It is a cost-effective solution. From a manageability perspective, it is not as user-friendly as the more advanced solutions, like Dell NetWorker, Dell Storage Manager, or IBM Storage Protect. My company does the tool's maintenance, but during instances where the IDPA maintenance had to be done, upgrades, and so on, because of the very tight packaging of all the components, we normally call in the technical support from EMC to assist us or do it on our behalf. In our maintenance contracts, I think a stipulation and a price penalty are associated with your maintenance costs. From our side, we split the maintenance part between four technical engineers plus the technical support. My company is not at the stage where we can leverage AI. I personally frown upon it. From a group risk perspective, our customers have not accepted AI. I would recommend it to the right user. As I mentioned, the user must have a particular background or expertise in a specific platform. For example, a Windows-based client might not align well with a Linux-based solution, and so on. The solution should match the user's technical exposure, capabilities, and preferences. For those users, Dell Avamar could be a good fit. There is also a new product from EMC called PPDM. It is supposed to replace Dell NetWorker, but I don't see that happening. PPDM seems to have dropped too many important features. Dell NetWorker has built-in metrics that seem to have vanished in PPDM. While PPDM is supposedly more user-friendly and quick to interface, when it comes to backup and recovery, you expect certain indicators to be present, which have been removed from PPDM. So, there is a lot of change in the EMC world regarding backup and recovery platforms. The solutions are nice, but, as I said before, the pricing makes it difficult to recommend universally. I rate the tool as a six out of ten.

We use the data domain most of the time. In that environment, it integrates well. Compared to other solutions, we work closely with the team to manage case-based solutions more effectively. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I would recommend Dell Avamar for small and medium enterprises. I don't think it would be suitable for large companies. Overall, I would rate Dell Avamar a seven out of ten. It's not a bad product, but it needs some improvements in functionalities, support services, and overall maturity. If these improvements are made, it could be one of the best backup solutions in the world. As a user, I would recommend Dell Avamar for backup solutions for end users, but not for VMs, SQL, Oracle, or any application running at the application level. For end users, I would recommend it 100%, but not for backend infrastructure at this time.

I will recommend the product to organizations that are providing critical services. The solution requires maintenance. The maintenance is not complex, but we must apply all the required fixes. We must follow the things recommended by the vendor to guarantee that we are aligned with the service provider's guidelines. People who want to use the solution must find a good partner. The product is good. It must be implemented well. The tool protects us against risks that could cost us millions if we have a problem. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

The solution's ease of use simplifies the disaster recovery processes in our company. Once implemented, Dell Avamar performs as a complete solution. The advanced DR backup from varying locations is easy to recall using Dell Avamar. The backups are performed by the solution with superior stability. The product is easy to manage as frequent troubleshooting is not required and reliable backups are procured. The interface of the tool was quite bland previously; it was a Java console, but recently, it got upgraded to a WIP console. The WIP console is easy to comprehend and navigate in Dell Avamar. The product is more expensive when purchased as a stand-alone solution, but with Dell IDPA, the cost is reduced significantly as a suite of tools. With the IDPA bundle, a user pays for only the features used. Dell Avamar requires pre-purchase of the entire storage. For example, with Dell Avamar, you might need to purchase 36 TB storage when you only require 16 TB. Dell IDPA offers a huge storage device, and payment needs to be made as per the license procured. I have a 96 TB storage solution with Dell IDPA, but I am licensed to use only as much as required; if I am using 12 TB, the cost for only 12 TB needs to be paid. I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. Potential customers should be aware that the solution is initially provided with 96 TB storage and can possibly be scaled further. I haven't faced any downsides or setbacks with the solution; it's quite easy to use.

I will recommend the solution to others. The appliance is good. There are hardly any solutions that can match up to Avamar. It has always stood up to the test whenever we have used it. Overall, I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

The solution is very easy to maintain. Whenever we receive any alarms from the Avamar box, we report them to Dell, and the support person helps us resolve the issues. I recommend this solution, especially for your endpoints' data. Backing up servers, in addition to endpoints, is crucial. Nowadays, it's important to back up your servers on the cloud. This solution is very effective for your endpoints. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We were using Dell Avamar for banking services and different banking applications. Dell Avamar's user interface impacted our backup operation quite well. I rate Dell Avamar an eight out of ten for its performance for our business size. Dell Avamar is a good product to use. Since there is competition with other products doing a similar or better job, users should evaluate and compare different solutions. Overall, I rate Dell Avamar an eight out of ten.

There are three key pillars to consider when making recommendations: price, product reliability and performance, and support. Price comparisons are crucial in today's global market, while product features and performance also play a significant role. However, the most crucial factor is support. Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.

Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.

I rate Dell Avamar an eight out of ten.

If the customer is a small business, I would not recommend Avamar because of the price. If the customer only wants a simple platform for data protection, though, Avamar is a really good option. I rate Dell Avamar a ten out of ten.

I would recommend this solution to other people. I would rate this solution as a whole an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

Overall, I would rate this solution a seven, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

I would rate this solution as five out of ten. I wouldn't recommend it to others.

I'm using Dell Avamar version 19.2. Four to five people deployed the solution. Dell Avamar requires regular maintenance. My company has a dedicated team for maintaining the solution daily. My company has more than sixty thousand Dell Avamar users. I recommend Dell Avamar to businesses and teams with smaller workloads and accounts. You can use the solution to protect endpoints and servers. Still, Dell Avamar works well on small to midsized environments rather than environments with heavy workloads and complex infrastructure where using it would become more challenging. Dell Avamar now has cloud-based offerings, but I have yet to test the solution on heavy workloads. I'd recommend Dell Avamar for small to midsized environments. I'd rate Dell Avamar as seven out of ten. My company is a Dell customer.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

The solution is not difficult to maintain. We have integrated all backup solutions into the Dell Avamar system. It's very easy and when we have a problem we always communicate with Dell EMC. I would recommend this solution to others. I rate Dell Avamar a ten out of ten.

We were a partner and resellers. In my last job, I was a preferred partner. I'm not sure which version we're using. I'm not the backup administrator. We will stay with Avamar for this platform, however, maybe we will look into Nutanix, and that's why we are searching for another solution. Avamar cannot back up Nutanix as a virtual solution. I'd warn potential users that it's not the best solution if you have other products other than VMware in your production. If you are just using VMware, it's a very good option. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten as it doesn't work well with every solution, only VMware.

My job is to provide solutions to my customers, so I compare different products to have a clear view of the differences between products. In terms of Dell products, I work mainly with Dell Avamar. My focus is on backup architecture, and I'm an integrator. Dell Avamar is recommended for midsize and enterprise businesses. My rating for Dell Avamar is seven out of ten. It's my day-to-day job to recommend solutions, especially new solutions from Dell, for example, cyber recovery solutions. I would recommend Dell Avamar to others because not much software can work well with CyberSense. Though I find PowerProtect Data Manager to be a good solution, it's not yet at the same level as Dell Avamar on many points. It couldn't back up all that Dell Avamar could back up.

This is a great product and the integration is easy with other solutions, like the cloud or Data Domain, and it's scalable. I think to some extent Networker used to be the big brother, but now Avamar is taking over that space. I would rate this solution as a nine out of ten.

We are not using the latest version of the solution right now. I would not advise people to use this product. Maybe it depends on the case of the organization. The performance is a big issue for us and maybe the support service. If the supplier is enough to provide support to the end user, I might maybe recommend to others, however, it needs a capacity built internally and maybe in the market. That's the big issue with it. Otherwise, if any users have skills to manipulate using it, utilize the resource, I would recommend it. I'd rate the solution five out of ten.

I would advise others to use Veeam over Avamar. I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

I would not recommend this solution to others. I rate Dell EMC Avamar a five out of ten.

I rate Dell EMC Avamar a seven out of ten.

I would recommend this solution to others. I rate Dell EMC Avamar a seven out of ten.

We sell Dell EMC Avamar, but we have not sold that many, just several. We've been partners of Dell for a long period of time, so we have the partnership for Dell EMC Avamar, and we can sell it at anytime, but we don't have much expertise on the product. We sell it worldwide and it was not so difficult to sell because it met corporate standards, e.g. for companies in the same level as Ernst & Young, Xerox, Proctor & Gamble, Philips, etc. We have not been certified to deploy this solution on the Cloud, but we're looking into this. In general, when you look at the spec sheet for Dell EMC Avamar, it's a very good product. We're looking forward to trying this product's isolated backup feature. For the deployment and maintenance of this product, at least two engineers are required. We only have several clients using it, and they received the product from us, but it didn't require installation because the installation was provided remotely by the headquarters. We sell backup software from Symantec, Dell, and Commvault. Our company doesn't have engineers certified in Dell EMC Avamar, however, because it is a difficult product. There's a lack of customers as well, so we didn't train and we didn't have our engineers certified for it. Dell EMC Avamar is a product I can recommend to others. I don't remember exactly the licensing policy for this product. You have to pay for it for three years, then you also have to pay for support after a certain period of time, but I'm unsure. I'm giving Dell EMC Avamar an eight out of ten, because it's very good, but it's not easy to deploy.

I rate Dell EMC Avamar nine out of 10. If you don't have Avamar experience, you need to work with a partner. It's not straightforward, but it's effective. However, Avamar only takes what has been written in a day. It takes a backup of a short time and doesn't do any duplications.

Before choosing any backup solution, run a use case so that you can evaluate the product and have proof of concept. I would rate Avamar as nine out of ten.

I would rate this product 5 out of 10.

I would rate Avamar five out of 10 because it lacks cloud capabilities. Two years ago, I would've rated it nine, but these days, I give it a five. Avamar is a good product with a lot of potential, but if Dell isn't willing to put more effort into developing it, my advice would be to look elsewhere. Look at Veeam, Rubrik, or other products in the industry. There are products more suitable for enterprises, especially if they're migrating to the cloud. If they're traditional and have their own data center, I would recommend Avamar. Avamar is a stable, good product if you can justify the cost. If they need something that integrates with the cloud, they should look elsewhere. I'd recommend Veeam, which does a better job of integrating cloud assets with native storage. It isn't locked into its own specific storage, like your data domain or that sort of thing. The configuration is more straightforward, and it's more cost-effective. Still, the primary reason is that Veeam is ahead of Dell products in the cloud space. These days, most organizations are moving to the cloud, and Veeam seems to be ahead of the game in that space. Dell EMC needs to lower Avamar's price and add more features to stay competitive.

We have Data Domain and network backup software. I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it. I would rate Dell EMC Avamar, an eight out of ten.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We're quite happy with its capabilities. This product is for production users. We do not backup user backups; it's only for the production workload.

I'm a freelancer and an EMC instructor. I'm not an expert in the solution, however, for me, it's been a very positive experience. I'd advise potential new users to pay attention to the details and to follow the implementation instructions. If you do that, you'll be fine. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

We're just a customer and an end-user. I'm using the latest version of the solution. It's an iteration of version 17. I'm very happy with this product. I recommend it to everyone who is searching for any complete backup for an entire infrastructure, for example, for a virtual server, a database server, or a laptop or desktop. This is a single product that can handle a complete infrastructure backup. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

I consider the solution to be most comprehensive in all respects. It has an understanding of most of the vendor's applications. I rate Dell EMC Avamar as an eight out of ten.

I would rate Dell EMC Avamar a six out of 10. It is a pretty basic backup system in terms of features. It does its job. However, its UI is just ridiculous.

My advice would be to compare costs to other solutions and also look at the virtual appliance version of it. I would rate Dell EMC Avamar a six out of 10.

If the setup is done right, it can be great. I would rate Dell EMC Avamar at eight on a scale from one to ten.

I recommend this solution to others. I rate Dell EMC Avamar a seven out of ten.

You have to be really concerned about the Dell support model, the quality of their upgrades, and their support team's knowledge because they have issues in that area. When you consider rating this solution, there are two parts to consider. There is the physical platform, the data domain, and the Avamar software. There is support for both of those. The physical platform is pretty reliable. I would rate it an eight, and for the support and the software, I would give it a six because of the issues that we've experienced with it. Overall, I would rate Dell EMC Avamar a seven out of ten.

We don't have a lot of customers that use the product, however, we are recommending it often. Our customers are using the latest version of the product, however, I can't speak to the exact version number. On a scale from one to ten, I'd rate the solution at a seven. I'd recommend the solution to other users and companies. It's worked well for a few of our customers.

Be sure it is what you need. We bought it simply because we're a VMware shop, and we knew we were going to grow that particular core from our business and discontinue using physical hardware altogether. If that's a model that you're doing, it's a nice product. If it's not, you don't need it. I would also upfront negotiate the licensing model with them so that you know what to expect before you get into it. What we did not do is buy the cloud extension or an archive solution, and that is now becoming a fairly predominant piece of the pie that we don't have any licensing for. So, make sure it fits your environment, and you get the pieces that we didn't—the more modern archive and cloud control—so that you can have part of your environment out in the cloud. Many people are doing that. We're doing that. We just don't back it up that way. I would rate Dell EMC Avamar an eight out of 10 simply because it is stable. It does a very good job of tying into the VMware API. EMC owns VMware, so they are more or less the same company. So, they're not going to make a change in VMware that adversely affects their software products. I've got to give it an eight just for that.

I would rate Dell EMC Avamar a seven out of ten.

Regarding end-users, I would say stick with disk-based backup. Avamar does it very well with the VMware virtual environments, even Hyper-V for that reason. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Dell EMC Avamar a rating of seven. The reason I am giving it a rating of seven is because of the plugin issues and the inability to tape out. Frankly, there are still a lot of clients in this region who need to be in compliance — they need the tape out. It's really a nightmare if you want to tape out with Avamar. There's a way to work around this but you've got to install an ADME node, which is actually a small brother of NetWorker. Still, it's a really painful process.

We are Avamar partners. I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. I'd recommend the solution to other organizations.

I need to rate the Data Protection Suite as a whole, given that Avamar is no longer sold as a separate product. I rate the whole solution a nine out of 10.

We are integrators. We tend to work with relatively new versions of the solution. It may not always be the latest version. Typically the versions we use have been released in the last six months or so. I'd recommend the solution to other organizations and especially to end-users. In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

My advice is that this product covers all of your needs as far as backup is concerned. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

This is a product that I can recommend for small sites without anything special. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We're Dell partners. We have a business relationship with the company. While we work with newer versions of the solution, we tend not to use the latest one. We try not to deploy the latest so we can avoid any issues. We're likely on version 19.1 which we've used since last year. We upgraded from 7.5. I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's been a pretty good experience overall.

I always see improvements on the Avamar side, and we are happy with that. On a scale from one to ten, I would give Dell EMC Avamar a ten.

If my customer is already using an existing product then I will not recommend that they switch unless there are serious problems. If there is some heavy restructuring, for instance, because a previous person knew the environment very well, it will be difficult to take over. It is best if they have something very simple to manage. In general, it is not easy to switch from one backup platform to another because of incompatibility. My advice for anybody who is implementing Dell EMC Avamar is that it's always good to have a plan first. You want to know exactly what you have on-hand that you need to back up. Overall, this is a good product. The stability and backup speed are very good but the GUI and reports are not something that a new user can get used to. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.