We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp and others in Deduplication Software."The solution's most valuable feature is the integrated deduplication function."
"The stability is excellent."
"The solution can scale up to one petabyte right now. It's very good for enterprise-level organizations."
"As our organization functions, we have a total of 2500+ primary sites and 6300+ secondary sites. All of our entire backup systems are totally dependent on this product. EMC Data Domain is very reliable and there are no issues using it since 2015."
"The backup is very secure. The deduplication using EMC is very good. We are able to make systems and handle random cloning. EMC is a very stable solution for making backups."
"The most valuable features of this product are its guaranteed reliability and its duplication capability."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression and the Data Domain Boost."
"9900 has around 1.5 petabits of capacity in a single rack, and that's huge."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"I would like to see integration with public cloud."
"We have some problems with backing up on the Power Platform. PowerServer is an IBM product, and it forces us to back up over LAN, which is not suitable for us."
"They need to make migration easier."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"It helps if you have in-depth knowledge in order to use it correctly."
"I would like to see some kind of integration with the ransomware in the next release."
"The tool's DD Boost is expensive."
"The price could be a little cheaper than it is now."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 65 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Veeam Backup & Replication and Rubrik, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP.
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