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Dell Avamar vs. Arcserve ShadowProtect SPX

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricDell Avamar

by Dell Technologies

Arcserve ShadowProtect SPX

by Arcserve

Overall rating4.04.2
Review count4723
Ease of use7.98.4
Ease of setup7.08.4
Quality of support8.57.4
Meets requirements8.98.7
NPS40.4761938.095238
Small Business8.5%56.5%
Mid-Market44.7%34.8%
Enterprise46.8%8.7%
Total page views19882
Total LLM citations97153

Dell Avamar

Dell Avamar is a robust data protection software designed to deliver efficient and secure backup and recovery solutions across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. By employing advanced deduplication technology, Avamar minimizes storage requirements and network bandwidth usage, enabling fast, daily full backups and streamlined recovery processes. Key Features and Functionality: - Efficient Deduplication: Utilizes variable-length deduplication to eliminate redundant data at the source, significantly reducing backup times and storage needs.

Pros

    Arcserve ShadowProtect SPX

    Arcserve ShadowProtect delivers reliable backup and disaster recovery for hosted environments, with fast data restoration and disaster recovery. Designed for Managed Service Providers, ShadowProtect streamlines routine backup operations, data recovery, and monthly billing and reporting. MSPs can provide complete backup services and quickly recover entire systems, applications, or files after data loss, hardware failure, or ransomware attacks.

    Pros

    • Deployment Ease
    • User Interface
    • Backup Services
    • Restore Services
    • Data Recovery
    • Backup Reliability