We performed a comparison between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC Networker based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Dell EMC Avamar wins out in this comparison due to its robust performance as well as its impressive data reduction and deduplication abilities. In addition, Dell EMC Avamar received positive feedback in the ROI category.
"The product is good for backups."
"It's simple to configure."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"Source based deduplication is the most attractive feature as it drastically reduces the backup window."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"The solution is very stable."
"When it was required that data had to be restored for our customer, it was accomplished successfully and this has kept our end users satisfied."
"This solution is very stable."
"NetWorker is fast and reliable."
"Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly."
"The GUI is the best feature. It's very good and easy to use."
"Dell NetWorker's valuable feature is its ability to configure the network for immutability, specifically for backups."
"Anybody could drive the GUI."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"Interfaces need to be improved."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"In my opinion, the user interface and the user friendliness could be improved. The specific thing I have in mind are the graphics, which are not quite user-friendly."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"I think they could also move more towards cloud solutions. It already has some cloud tiering, but I think that could be more extensive. They should work with all cloud providers and I think in the future they will be on all cloud platforms."
"I have found the support from Dell EMC Avamar to be not as good as Veeam. The time it takes to receive support could be improved. However, once we have the support the agents are knowledgeable and helpful."
"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."
"We are looking forward to better stability in future versions."
"There should be more vendors incorporated into the solution."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"The data storage capabilities should be improved."
"The user interface has to be improved"
"Its console UI should be better. It should also have more out-of-the-box reporting functionalities. It should also have easier cloud integration. They have got cloud boost and things like that, but if you want to directly back up to the cloud, I'm not too sure whether you can do it. For example, you can easily send data from Commvault to AWS, Azure, or a container, but it seems to be not so easy in NetWorker."
"The front end of the solution could improve. The user-friendliness is lacking."
"It's complex in nature."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8. 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 NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell NetWorker report.
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