We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"It was very simple to deploy the solution to the client that you wanted to backup."
"They are extremely reliable and scalable — they provide the best de-duplication on the market."
"Dell EMC Avamar is very good with endpoint backups."
"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."
"Dell PowerProtect DD is a stable solution."
"It is secure, reliable, and has officer support."
"The product, a disk backup solution, improves our data application tasks. We used tape libraries with Dev drives in legacy architectures, resulting in slow backups compared to modern drives like NVMe and SSDs. By transitioning to NVMe and SSDs, backups have become much faster. The tool's backup restoration is faster compared to other tools."
"This solution has a feature called Domain Boost, which allows for source deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup was straightforward. Deployment takes about two weeks."
"The compatibility within the Dell PowerProtect DD portfolio makes data management more seamless. This integrated solution improves efficiency in our data center and simplifies operations by relying on a single company for servers and storage."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Dell EMC PowerProtect DD are its deduplication feature and its DD Boost protocol for fast transfer, which is amazing."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"The solution, in the future, should offer support for mobile."
"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"The stability could improve, a lot of scheduled backups failed at one time."
"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."
"We are not able to deal directly with the OEM we have to go to their partners in Nigeria."
"The product lacks some security features that would make it more stand-alone and integrated."
"We have had deduplication and replication issues. When we used another backup software we noticed that it didn't have the same issues."
"It can probably have integration with other OEMs. It should also have more features for ransomware protection."
"They're scalable."
"Dell PowerProtect DD does not have integration with the cloud and virtualization software."
"They need to make migration easier."
"The pricing could be better, but it's still not too expensive."
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Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 65 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Veeam Backup & Replication and NetApp FAS Series. See our Dell Avamar vs. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) report.
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