Dell Avamar vs. HYCU

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dell Avamar
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/laptops.N/A
HYCU
Score 9.0 out of 10
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HYCU is a SaaS Data Protection platform that delivers SaaS-based data backup, recovery, and ransomware protection for on-prem, cloud, and SaaS environments serving vendors globally.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Dell Avamar
7.8
Ratings
8% below category average
HYCU
8.9
Ratings
5% above category average
Universal recovery8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Instant recovery8.60 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Business application protection8.60 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations6.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud3.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Snapshots8.60 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Flexible deployment7.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Management dashboard8.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Platform support4.70 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Retention options8.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Encryption8.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.2 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.2 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Dell AvamarHYCU
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.5
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Usability
8.0
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9.0
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Support Rating
8.8
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Dell AvamarHYCU
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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It’s well suited for Nutanix AHV data protection and includes the ability for immutable backups via WORM policy. I’m unsure of its performance in environments that use Hyper-V OR VMware for virtualization. The use of tiered backups without additional policies are great when creating new VMs, even automatically assigning a default backup policy to ensure that all workloads have at least a minimal level of data protection
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Pros
  • 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.
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  • Backup of virtual machines.
  • Upload to Cloud backups.
  • Recovery of databases backed up through HYCU.
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Cons
  • 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.
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  • Better DR support guidance/best practices
  • Reporting isn’t straightforward and as customizable as I’d like
  • Including M365 backups without additional cost would be a big value add for us
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Usability
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
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Very simple interface. Can learn it in a day. The instances where I needed a little hand holding, I just called support and they assisted immediately. That's the best of both worlds.
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Support Rating
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.
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I have had several requests, and issues with the rollout and deployment of HYCU in our production environment. The HYCU team of support and developers have met each issue with importance and some kind of resolution or explanation of help. They have been so supportive even in the not so easy ones. That says something for their product and team behind it.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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I have used several backup programs, I selected 2 just to be brief. The best thing I see with HYCU over Veeam is that it is much more difficult for an attacker if inside the network to gain access to the backups and objects saved in the backup storage. The best part about HYCU over Bacula is that it is much easier to use and more stable. The interface alone will save you from time and energy using other products
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Return on Investment
  • 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
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  • I trust this product to protect our organization if things go badly.
  • I am able to not lose sleep thinking about backups.
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