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Dell Avamar Reviews & Product Details

EMC Avamar: Fast, efficient backup and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution. Equipped with integrated variable-length deduplication technology, Avamar facilitates fast, daily full backups for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise applications, network-attached storage (NAS) servers, and desktops/laptops.

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

27 months

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Mikey R.

Head of Channel

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/8/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"I've worked with Avamar for over 4 years delivering private/public and hybrid deployments."

5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

Avamar is an Enterprise Grade Platform and we deliver it in a fairly unique way - utilising our own proprietary portal to make managing the backups simple and intuitive. It supports all major business critical applications and it's client side de-duplication ensures backups are completed well within backup windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

On the rare occasions that you do encounter problems it can be a pretty painful process when dealing with EMC support which does diminish from the overall experience of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell Avamar:

Make sure you size your environment correctly to avoid having to spend additional Capex to upgrade or add additional capacity or increase performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell Avamar solving and how is that benefiting you?

We leverage EMC Avamar to solve data protection issues for organisations of all sizes. We make the arduous task of data protection simple and have saved organisations on average 4 man days per month. Not only that but by leveraging EMC Avamar we de-risk the backup service and offer reassurance that should data need to be recovered it can be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/29/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Avamar Review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

Avamar is a distributed index based architecture and does not maintain a single meta database, rather it uses the self describing organization of the unique ID’s. The Avamar server takes checkpoints which are snapshots in case a roll back to a previous state is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

It mainly suits with small or Medium level enterprises. Avamar has a performance impact on the customer’s application servers as it is a client side only implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell Avamar solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Avamar server runs on a single server for small environments or scales up by adding additional systems and redistributing workload with automatic load balancing.

It encrypts data in transit with 128 or 256 AES bit or proprietary encryption for data in transit and optionally at rest, compression, central administration and a dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brandon M.

Assistant Information System Security Officer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/28/2015

"Wonderful Storage Solution!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

While the EMC Avamar product itself is amazing, the support from the staff is where EMC really shines. Everything from the demos to the constant support for the product has been wonderful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

While lower than some other products on the market, I found that the was a little on the steep side, although for a company that requires a large storage solution, large budget often go hand in hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim L.

Owner

Computer Hardware

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/15/2015

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Long time Avamar user"

5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

I like the integration of the backup target with the client software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

Bare Metal Restore capabilities could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell Avamar:

Try it and you'll like it. Use the AVE (Avamar Virtual Edition) leveraging VMware, and you can use any storage you want, and not have to rely on dedicated storage for your backup target. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell Avamar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Knowing that I have data available to retrieve from past backups in a fast, secure environment. Especially if you have the ability to replicate the data to another location, and utilize different retention policies for the local, vs. the remote data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/16/2015

"Product worked very well, it is worth the money if you are an enterprise."

5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

Image backups are seamless and you could easily restore files that are missing. The backup process never took long at all, because of deduplication. I like the user interface as well from EMC Avamar. It was relatively easy to use in comparison to EMC's other product NetWorker which primarily focused on tape backups. Avamar is a great piece of software you can look at and as long as you know the computer host names you are backing up you know exactly where everything is backed up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

Dislike that its only for enterprise businesses, because I could see myself using it at home for a backup solution for quick restores. Also, since log files are files that change often then the process of deduplication slows down the back up quite a bit, so if you're backing up log files be prepared for back ups take a while. Which means if you have a select time the backup can't run then the backup won't backup all your files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell Avamar:

It works well, I really wish I could use it at home to use it as a home solution but it is not economically feasible for home use unless the business model has changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell Avamar solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was solving a problem with backups that used tapes and converted over to disc backups which would then replicate to another office location. Benefits are the data within retention can be restored fast. Benefits by far outweigh the cons. File directories as big as 100tb that have changes can be backed up in minutes which means less network usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/26/2015

"I oversee all aspects of the backup and restoration process for our company. "

3.5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

The technology associated with the EMC Avamar production is excellent. The capability for retaining large amounts of data for long retention periods is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

The EMC AVAMAR interface is lacking and not easy to use. Reporting features within the application are poor at best. Another application like EMC DPA is necessary in order to get meaningful information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell Avamar:

Purchase any training you can for this product. Get a firm understanding of all the concepts involved and a basic understanding of how the technology works.

Determine upfront what you are trying to accomplish. If possible get a proof of concept for your environment. Force yourself to use it for atleast 90 days.

If you are purchasing from a reseller make sure they can support the product as well. Purchase services from that reseller to train and provide initial instruction when beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell Avamar solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using AVAMAR to backup our virtual environment, office personnel computers and SQL servers. The benefits of deduplication, compression, single instance storage, etc... really maximizes our TCO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Commercial Real Estate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/17/2015

"5 years of my experiance"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

Source De-dupe

De-dupe Rates

VM level Snapshot Backups

WAN Backups

Server footprint

RTO & RPO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

Missing Granular Level recovery (Exchange Public folder Database, Active Directory object level)

Problem in identifying exact backend size of clients.

Not supporting old OS's comparability. Most of companies still use windows 2000, XP etc due to various issues and each Avamar production version is leaving out old OS. Other Backup tools like commvault, Netbackup & even Networker still compatible even though does not support officially.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell Avamar:

Excellent for VM backups, WAN/Remote location backups, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell Avamar solving and how is that benefiting you?

we solved migrating small remote location local Tape Backup infra to Avamar WAN backups

Less overall foot print (less storage, less servers, less power usage) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravi S.

System Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/25/2015

"painless deployment and management with EMC avamar"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

painless deployment and management

best product that uses variable-length deduplication technology

fits right into all machine & data types, NAS (filedata), remote office, virtual environments(VM's), desktop\laptop, exchange and DB applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

the main down side is process or ability to to tape outs for long-term retention data, there is proper software that integrates\works smoothly with avamar for tapeouts datasets

cost and limitation to growth is also a downside Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abel L.

Vice President of Information Technology

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/16/2015

"A proven product"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

We can backup almost all operating systems. OSX ? windows? linux ? virtual machines ? AIX ? SOLARIS? the list goes on and on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

It takes a bit of patience to administer the system at first. There is definitely a learning curve involved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell Avamar:

Reach out to someone with experience before committing to the product. At this price point, there needs to be some expectation management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell Avamar solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the enterprise world we have time constraints. Avamar is able to backup a tremendous amount of data in a short period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stu Z.

Systems Core Enterprise Administrator

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/17/2015

"excellent backup solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell Avamar?

Easy interface, tapeless, de-dupe, excellent tech support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell Avamar?

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