We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and HPE StoreOnce based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"The setup is very easy."
"What I found valuable in Dell Avamar is the deduplication feature. I also like that the solution can be integrated with Data Domain."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"HPE StoreOnce has high performance."
"If you have a large enough storage capacity then you can take an ample amount of data."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"HPE StoreOnce is particularly useful in situations where organizations require a backup solution to store their data. Its deduplication feature is quite impressive, providing a deduplication ratio of around 25 to 26."
"Currently, VTLs can only be created on individual service sets and cannot be used to share the resources of other nodes."
"I like the tool’s deduplication feature. We get a ratio of 9:1 for deduplication. The product is also Linux based. Last year, our organization faced some virus attacks. However, the backup was safe because of the product being a Linux version. HPE StoreOnce is a secure product."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The product’s data retention is very good."
"Some customers need to back up to tape, but Avamar lacks support, so it costs a lot."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"It would be helpful if the product offered more integration potential."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The support is very bad."
"Technical support should be more knowledgeable."
"HPE should have more options so customers can choose from a wide range of products with small to big capacities."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"It is difficult to solve issues with this solution remotely. I prefer to use the knowledge base platforms. The response time could improve."
"The solution could always be less expensive."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"The setup phase is not so simple that an end user can plug and play to make it operational."
Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. 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 HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". 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 HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Dell Avamar vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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