We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature for me in Dell Avamar is the automation, which is good for completion."
"The most valuable features are scalability and integration."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"The source site replication feature is valuable."
"For the on-prem backup, it has all the necessary features that we require. They keep coming up with new scripts and new updates."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"The solution is strong."
"The solution's most valuable features are networker and continuous data protection."
"We don't need to manage different devices."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."
"Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"Desktop-laptop backups and backup over the WAN needs lot of improvisation. For DTLT there must be a provision to push agents from the management console."
"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."
"If you need to pull data out of it to offload to tapes, that's messy. You have a mechanism for it, but it is painful."
"The configuration and expansion aspects of the solution need improvement. They're complicated and don't really integrate well."
"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."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity."
"The product's index master feature needs improvement."
"Managing the product is a little bit complicated."
"The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"The solution should be easier to use."
"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."
"The solution's implementation was very complicated and could be improved."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 13 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2. 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 Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup. See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) report.
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