"Dell PowerVault offers valuable full flash storage."
"It is an inexpensive storage solution."
"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its ability to provide small to medium-range storage. It doesn't have any specific standout features, but it's great for applications, such as surveillance where a large number of videos need to be recorded and performance isn't a priority."
"Dell PowerVault is user-friendly and easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is easy to manage and easy to use."
"For us, the initial setup was easy."
"The solution is reliable and stable."
"Being able to move data seamlessly from one-premise to the cloud (Azure). It works great. The backup solution is perfect for us."
"It's pretty simple. Once you set it, it goes; and then the idea of being able to get it to the cloud very quickly. It's kind of a set-it-forget-it."
"The deduplication engine. Right now, we're at about 10.5 to 11 times deduplication of our backup data."
"The solution is very easy to use and it offers great support."
"Most importantly is having that island into that datacenter, and being able to address things in the same console. Thus, it is irrelevant where it's stored."
"You can store backups for a while."
"The flexibility. Being able to virtualize it, port it wherever I like, test my backups, test my DR capabilities whenever I like without impacting anybody."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is easy to use and integrate with whichever operating systems you use, providing you with a complete view, especially when you plan to migrate to some other operating system."
"Dell PowerVault is block-oriented storage only."
"The high prices of the solution are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In the next release, I would like the deduplication and compression included, as well as the flash technology. It doesn't currently use it."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"I would like Dell to improve on the configuration of the disk groups. Only one group is expandable. Once you configure the other disk group types, you cannot expand them. It limits scalability. If you want maybe to grow a disk group, you lose information, and then you need to build it up again, which is not a good use case for customers."
"There have been situations when our customers requested professional support and the price of that feature is quite high."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"If the solution came with a synchronous application, it would be particularly advantageous for small businesses operating across multiple sites."
"The solution needs faster indexing."
"There are some bits it could do better. With tighter integration maybe with Veeam, or something like that, it'd be really good."
"What could be helpful is different user base authentication so then maybe we could allow different customers to point to a single appliance and they only see the backups and things that they have."
"NetApp's own competing products complicate things."
"More capacity with the basic model of the AltaVault would probably help out."
"It's a good product, but it's becoming outdated and moving to their other primary architecture."
"More than a 500 volume limit. At the moment, it only supports up to 500 volumes for SnapMirror and that's a problem. We've got 750, so a larger limit for volume replicas for SnapMirror."
"It would be nice if the solution was more complete. Many customers are looking for a single solution or silo that they can manage everything from. It would be nice, instead of having different products, if everything a client needed was in one solution."
Dell PowerVault is ranked 2nd in Enterprise SAN with 23 reviews while NetApp AltaVault is ranked 39th in Cloud Backup with 17 reviews. Dell PowerVault is rated 8.4, while NetApp AltaVault is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerVault writes "Easy to use with good integrations and reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp AltaVault writes "Though the solution's configuration phase can be difficult, the tool offers stability and scalability". Dell PowerVault is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Huawei OceanStor SNS, Lenovo Storage V Series and ExaGrid EX, whereas NetApp AltaVault is most compared with Commvault Cloud, Veeam Backup & Replication and Rubrik.
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