We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The backup software has been much faster since we've deployed the solution."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"It is the best umbrella, serving the best applications."
"Technical support is good."
"The solution is stable."
"The backup feature for this product is good. It is easy to set up and easy to scale."
"When it was required that data had to be restored for our customer, it was accomplished successfully and this has kept our end users satisfied."
"The most valuable feature is NetWorker's integration with the data domain that transfers the data directly into the Dell appliance, so the data doesn't need to pass through the network. NetWorker acts like a pipe, allowing the data to flow directly from the database or the VMware environment to the data domain."
"I like Data Domain as a protocol for data backup."
"Good starting capacity and scalability."
"The most valuable features of the solution are recovery point, compression, and deduplication."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the inline data deduplication."
"PowerProtect is a flexible solution that you can cover various cloud and on-premise environments."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the integrated deduplication function."
"Data Domain is an excellent repository that's compatible with a lot of different solutions. Even Veeam Backup recommends sending backup to Data Domain. Space optimization is great. Currently, it guarantees 50-to-1 compression of the application in the same device. In all these years, I never had a client who was unsatisfied with Data Domain. It is a solid appliance with VMware integration, instant access to restore and search, and analytics."
"Its console UI should be better. It should also have more out-of-the-box reporting functionalities. It should also have easier cloud integration. They have got cloud boost and things like that, but if you want to directly back up to the cloud, I'm not too sure whether you can do it. For example, you can easily send data from Commvault to AWS, Azure, or a container, but it seems to be not so easy in NetWorker."
"It is not easy to understand and deploy. It is complex in nature. Simplicity is not there. When we deploy it, the customer always needs some training from us. To make it user friendly, there should be one agent that can be used to back up every product. Dell EMC NetWorker uses so many user agents. In PowerProtect Data Manager, you can just install its VM, import that VM into vCenter, and you can start to do backups directly from vCenter. However, in Dell EMC NetWorker, you always need one server, and from that server, you need to initiate all backups. You must know the interface and the CLI. It is not user friendly. It would be a great feature if we can deploy Dell EMC NetWorker on a virtual machine, like Avamar. The additional features that are required in Dell EMC NetWorker are already available in PowerProtect Data Manager and Avamar. Therefore, there is no need to enhance Dell EMC NetWorker. It would be better if they can just rename it to PowerProtect Data Manager or Avamar."
"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."
"I would like to see encryption included in the next release to encrypt the data that we are backing up."
"It's complex in nature."
"They need more support for image backups."
"The configuration is too complex."
"Since the product is not on the front banner of Dell, the support may not be the best."
"EMC is very expensive for small customers."
"The pricing model needs to be improved."
"The price could be a little cheaper than it is now."
"They're scalable."
"The price could be improved."
"The price of the product is high."
"Installation and deployment for this product need improvement. These processes need to made easier. Currently, it's not an easy installation for customers. This product needs to be installed by professionals."
"The tool's DD Boost is expensive."
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Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 65 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Veeam Backup & Replication and Commvault Cloud.
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