Dell Avamar vs. Dell RecoverPoint

It's well suited when you are looking for something to keep your on-premise environment safe and you don't want to spend a lot of time doing the setup. It's easy to scale and a very reliable solution. I think it is not a really nice solution in terms of pricing, so the challenge here is to check if the value [is] worth it.

Incentivized

If you are a small business and you need a solution that is relatively easy to use and configure, then Dell EMC RecoverPoint is ok. The downside was that I found the cost to be high and was unable to negotiate a good licensing deal. Within a year I had to find a difference software vendor to meet my needs.

Incentivized

• New and improved interface no longer requires separate program to run on a management server.
• The avamar interacts with the data domain device to allow for cloud storage.
• The Avamar AVE footprint is much easier to install and use, given the new GUI.

Incentivized

• Affordable pricing.
• Integrations for automation.
• Compression options.

Incentivized

• The technology is stagnant. It's had the same basic interface and feature set over all of the years we used it.
• A clunky java based management GUI.
• It only supports RedHat for the management console under Linux.
• Meta-data continues to grow even when backup sets do not cause nodes to fill, requiring professional services to clean it up.
• Fork-lift upgrades.
• It requires a lot of care and feeding with a lot of time on the phone with support.

Incentivized

• Until now I don't have any but in this technological era there are bugs in every software but are fixed in next patches or new releases.

Incentivized

I have been using the product for over five years. This has performed so well that with the current system reaching its End-of-Life with EMC next year, I have proposed replacing it with the latest version of the product. Now that it integrates with Data Domain, the cost has been greatly reduced. Instead of the need to purchase many nodes, one Data Domain can replace them creating a significant cost savings.

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EMC been good to use as of now.

Incentivized

The system overall is easy to monitor and see your backup/restore status. The user interface could use updating as it relies on Java and any updates to Java cause the interface to stop working need to be reinstalled

Incentivized

Product is easy to use with details what is replicated and you can easily tag your datastores

Incentivized

Support is very convincing, always eager to solve issues from the root rather than workaround, don't hesitate to take webex, describe the issues to the core and recommend configuration to avoid further issues. We can ask few questions other than the main issue. They don't hesitate to answer.

Incentivized

I don't really have to call support too much, but when I have to they are always there to help.

Incentivized

Unfortunately, Avamar has stayed behind solutions like Solarwinds Backup and Datto in many different things, like the management of the applications being only desktop, the old fashion interfaces and configurations and specially the fact that it doesn't work as a business continuity tool, which makes it mostly and out-dated application when you compare it with how the market is evolving.

Incentivized

Incentivized

• Absolute Zero ROI
• This appliance does not work in its current state and to update we need to wait 2-3 months
• Can't wait to get rid of it and replace it with something else. (not even sure if we will be able to get it running before that)
• [I think] this is one of the worst mistakes we made

Incentivized

• Recoverpoint allowed the Business to have DR capabilities across a multitude of EMC arrays. It allowed the centralization of VM's to be protected across environments both locally as well as remotely.
• Recoverpoint can bring RTO down to minutes and can keep RPOs down to quickly restorable levels as well.

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