Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager are prominent data protection solutions. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager appears superior in features and ease of deployment despite Dell Avamar's competitive pricing and support.
Features: Dell Avamar offers efficient data deduplication, robust backup capabilities, strong protection for virtual environments, and fast recovery times. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager provides advanced automation, integration, multi-cloud data management, and a modern feature set tailored for complex, diverse setups.
Room for Improvement:Dell Avamar needs a more intuitive experience, enhanced scalability, and refined reporting tools. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager requires improvements in documentation, more comprehensive support for legacy systems, and faster initial setup times.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar is appreciated for its relatively quick deployment process and reliable support but faces challenges with scaling. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager has a steeper learning curve but benefits from efficient deployment methods and responsive customer service with occasional setup complexity issues.
Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar is cost-effective with reasonable setup costs and a good return on investment, especially for medium-sized enterprises. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, though more expensive, justifies its cost with rich functionalities and significant long-term ROI, particularly for large organizations.
Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes
If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.
PowerProtect Data Manager offers efficient data protection capabilities leveraging the latest evolution of Dell trusted protection storage architecture.
With operational simplicity, agility and flexibility at its core, PowerProtect Data Manager enables the protection, management and recovery of data in on-premises, virtualized and cloud deployments, including protection of in-cloud workloads. You can also protect cloud-native workloads across multiple public clouds via our integrated SaaS based PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager.
Modernize how you protect your VMware virtual machines using Transparent Snapshots. Transparent Snapshots simplifies VM image backups for near-zero impact to your VMs or VM resources – and it works with any VMware supported storage. Transparent Snapshots innovation increases backup performance, lowers costs and simplifies management and reduces the risk of data loss.
Streamline data protection directly for applications or Kubernetes containers to Dell PowerProtect appliances and reduce application resource constraints.
Increase business resiliency with PowerProtect Cyber Recovery capabilities to rapidly recover from cyber incidents.
Modular design allows agile delivery of new features and updates. Rapidly evolve to meet future IT demands.
Reviews from Real Users
“We keep an eye on the future, and we are confident that PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect DD series appliances will support our transformation project. Both products are continuously evolving and will cover our future needs, including using the cloud for data protection.” – Dimitris Mavromichalis, IT Deputy Manager at National Bank of Greece
“PowerProtect Data Manager combined with PowerProtect appliances – that’s cutting edge. That’s world leading as far as we’re concerned.” – Drew Hills, Infrastructure Analyst at USC Australia
““Most of my wish list came true with the PowerProtect Data Manager plugin for vSphere, which provides perfect integration with vCenter.” – Dave Chapman, Senior Technician at PSC Publishing
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