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Feature Set Ratings
Data Center Backup

Asigra
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

6.4
Dell EMC Avamar
64%
Dell EMC Avamar ranks higher in 14/14 features
Dell EMC Avamar ranks higher in 14/14 features
Universal recovery

N/A
0 Ratings

6.7
67%
20 Ratings
Live recovery

N/A
0 Ratings

6.9
69%
19 Ratings
Recovery verification

N/A
0 Ratings

7.4
74%
17 Ratings
Business application protection

N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
17 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations

N/A
0 Ratings

5.8
58%
20 Ratings
Incremental backup identification

N/A
0 Ratings

7.1
71%
21 Ratings
Backup to the cloud

N/A
0 Ratings

3.6
36%
10 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression

N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
22 Ratings
Snapshots

N/A
0 Ratings

6.9
69%
16 Ratings
Flexible deployment

N/A
0 Ratings

6.6
66%
12 Ratings
Management dashboard

N/A
0 Ratings

6.3
63%
13 Ratings
Platform support

N/A
0 Ratings

4.6
46%
14 Ratings
Retention options

N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
15 Ratings
Encryption

N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
14 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Asigra is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- Dell EMC Avamar is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Support Rating
- Asigra and Dell EMC Avamar are tied in 1 area: Usability
Likelihood to Recommend

9.0
Asigra
90%
25 Ratings

6.4
Dell EMC Avamar
64%
22 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

8.5
Asigra
85%
14 Ratings

9.5
Dell EMC Avamar
95%
2 Ratings
Usability

8.0
Asigra
80%
6 Ratings

8.0
Dell EMC Avamar
80%
1 Rating
Availability

8.8
Asigra
88%
10 Ratings

Dell EMC Avamar
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating

7.5
Asigra
75%
12 Ratings

8.8
Dell EMC Avamar
88%
8 Ratings
In-Person Training

4.5
Asigra
45%
1 Rating

Dell EMC Avamar
N/A
0 Ratings
Online Training

1.0
Asigra
10%
1 Rating

Dell EMC Avamar
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating

1.2
Asigra
12%
6 Ratings

Dell EMC Avamar
N/A
0 Ratings
Product Scalability

4.5
Asigra
45%
1 Rating

Dell EMC Avamar
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Asigra
If implemented as a Cloud Service provider (Public Cloud), In House Solution (Private Cloud) or a mixture of both (Hybrid Cloud):
- The Agentless Architecture means there are less support burdens.
- Encryption at Source gives the customer confidence their data is secure.
- WAN Optimisation (Compression & Block Level Incremential Forever and De-deupe of Data), enables a large amount of Data to be protected offsite.
- One step Backup to both Local and Offsite storage enables LAN speed restores with offsite peace of mind.
- Asigra Replication from DS-System to DS-System enables another geographically separate copy of the data.
Operations Director
Fantastic Cloud ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Dell EMC Avamar
This software is well suited for companies that want to be very in control of their backups but need a simple tool. It could be convenient for them to just buy their own node, locate it in a different location, and set up the jobs for their machines to backup to the cloud with the specific plugins. However, it would not be convenient for companies looking to have a tool that needs to be secure and compliant, and that need to have different other options for business continuity.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Computer & Network Security Company, 1-10 employeesPros
Asigra
- Provides capability of local backups while maintaining remote copies on cloud to ensure faster recoveries of recent data and remote protection of all data.
- Helps reduce cost of long term retention by leveraging the BLM functionality.
- It does not need specialized hardware for it to work. Customers and Service Providers can choose their own infrastructure and do not need to rely on any OS or storage based replication even for deploying replication of backups.
- Supports wide range of environments including virtual environments with remarkable features like remote VDR with incremental restores.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Customer Service
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employeesDell EMC Avamar
- Avamar performs data deduplication on the remote host. This greatly reduces the amount of traffic that each backup requires. This even applies to the virtual environment through change block tracking. Backup times are reduced from hours to minutes.
- The management interface makes it easy to configure and maintain data retention periods. Many times certain data must be kept for an extended period of time. There is a specific menu for managing retention periods.
- The system is able to recover itself from a hard failure with virtually no loss of backups. There is a checkpoint taken each day that provides a recovery point in the event of a catastrophic failure. Since this is a node based system, the loss of more than one node could require a recovery be performed.
- While another grid must be purchased, the replication utility allows all backups to be replicated to another grid at a remote location. This ensures the resilience of the backups in the event there is the loss of the primary data center.
- Also works on HCI devices performing image-level backups as in our primary data center environment
- There is also now an All-in-One appliance for smaller locations
Server Administrator
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry CompanyBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees
Cons
Asigra
- We would like to see Asigra come out with a Replication Model for quick Recovery of systems upon Disaster. We can have quicker recovery, DR, with Virtual Machines but we would like to have Physical Machine recovery in less than 2 hours. Replication can accomplish this...
- We would like to see Geolocation and remote wipe for endpoint devices
- We would like to see the solution provide easy "roll back" after a disaster.
Executive Vice President, CTO
Data Storage CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Dell EMC Avamar
- The client interface has constant JAVA issues and can be slow and chunky. We have often had issues with current versions of JAVA breaking it so it will not even run.
- The backup clients are split out for function. Although this makes them light, it also makes it cumbersome to upgrade clients. The naming scheme can also be confusing for the clients.
IT Manager
Saving SightHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Asigra
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Dell EMC Avamar
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Asigra
Asigra 8.5
Based on 14 answers
- Asigra is a great entry way into the cloud.
- Compliance is a tricky thing. Jumping backup software means having to deal with previous copies somehow. Asigra is built for the long haul.
- Asigra is continuing to increase their feature stack. They have made huge steps in the VM backup in the last 3 years and continue to implement features there.
- As far as cloud backup software goes, there are many that can do it, but none that do it as well as Asigra.
DPS Enterprise Manager
Daymark Solutions Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Dell EMC Avamar
Dell EMC Avamar 9.5
Based on 2 answers
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.
Server Administrator
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry CompanyBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Asigra
Asigra 8.0
Based on 6 answers
It is a bit rough around the edges and the GUI feels like a wrap around of a CLI but it is simple to use. The problem comes in when there is an error code you are usually chasing down the error code in the specific vendor's forums rather than Asigra's

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employeesDell EMC Avamar
Dell EMC Avamar 8.0
Based on 1 answer
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
Network Services Manager
M. J. Electric, LLCConstruction, 1001-5000 employees
Reliability and Availability
Asigra
Asigra 8.8
Based on 10 answers
Over 6 consecutive years our Asigra Backend had 99.99% uptime and provided 7x24 data restore availability.
Software is robust in operations, provides N+1 node architecture to protect against failure of half of the nodes (majority of the nodes still up) and software based replication to protect against data loss across two geographically independent datacenter locations. Why not 10 points? Some major upgrades still require short downtime within a planned maintenance windows.
Software is robust in operations, provides N+1 node architecture to protect against failure of half of the nodes (majority of the nodes still up) and software based replication to protect against data loss across two geographically independent datacenter locations. Why not 10 points? Some major upgrades still require short downtime within a planned maintenance windows.
Storage and Data Management Services
matrix technology AGInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Dell EMC Avamar
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Asigra
Asigra 7.5
Based on 12 answers
They respond quickly on your request.They ask for details at the time of logging the support request itself ensuring the first response is not for collecting the basic details only.They refund you the support request if they find it as a functionality issue.They follow up on you to ensure you are satisfied and happy with the response and resolution that they have provided.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Customer Service
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employeesDell EMC Avamar
Dell EMC Avamar 8.8
Based on 8 answers
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.
Senior System Analyst
StratogentInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Online Training
Asigra
Asigra 1.0
Based on 1 answer
Anything training past level 1 and level 2 is a waste of time. They do not offer training, just an exam and require you to read 2500 pages of their documentation as their training. They are selling you something which you already have. Training exams are far fetched and cover topics hidden within the documentation. A lot of their documentation does not match across itself. They don't even follow the standard versions Major.Minor.ServicePack.Hotfix. They use the MAJOR.MAJOR.MAJOR.Hotfix method, which doesn't match their documentation.They require you to take training in order to keep your engaged hybrid partnership. If you ask me personally, their training is a scam to make more money.
NOC Manager
SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Dell EMC Avamar
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Asigra
Asigra 1.2
Based on 6 answers
Quick to install, easy to create jobs, schedules and retention policies. No large cycles of setting up backup volumes or trash volumes. Retention job itself configures the BLM functionality so you don't need an expertise to handle the BLM module separately.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Customer Service
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employeesDell EMC Avamar
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Asigra
I would say that it has the same functionality as the three mentioned above in their respective fields (might have a bit less than some of them) but Asigra offers all of this and more so if you are looking for a single backup solution across the entire firm then Asigra is the much better choice
Servicedesk Consultant
Upheads ASInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Dell EMC Avamar
Avamar has simplied the back up approach in their VE edition and is much easier to use than Data Protector. Backing up multiple VMs takes minutes instead of hours now. Creating policies, retentions, and schedules, is vastly improved and much easier.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
Asigra
- One of the positive impacts is that the solution allows us to free up IT resources to focus on other tasks.
- Asigra has one of the best channel partner programs I have come across.
- This product is one of the few backup solutions that I've worked with that doesn't require an agent installed on the target device, making it easier to deploy to new devices.
Chief Information Technology Officer
Drummond Community BankFinancial Services, 201-500 employees
Dell EMC Avamar
- 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
Supervisor, Information Technology
Real Estate Council of OntarioNon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees