We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup 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 most valuable features of Dell EMC PowerProtect DD are the duplication security and uptime."
"Its pricing is not overly expensive."
"It's very easy to use the domain once it's been set up. The interface is also user-friendly."
"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 performance because you can back up data really quickly."
"The technology has been very useful. There are lots of features on offer."
"PowerProtect is a flexible solution that you can cover various cloud and on-premise environments."
"Dell PowerProtect DD’s most valuable feature is data deduplication."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"Ability to restore to any host."
"We frequently use the granular restore option for when our users accidentally delete files or to recover emails from mailboxes. We have found that to be a must-have feature and it comes with the solution at no extra cost."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."
"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"It can probably have integration with other OEMs. It should also have more features for ransomware protection."
"Looking at Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), there is a need for improvement, especially in terms of protection from cyber resiliency, cyber recovery, or man-in-the-middle attacks."
"They need to make migration easier."
"The pricing could be better, but it's still not too expensive."
"DD doesn't have Intel's air gap technology."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"Data Domain lacks compatibility with fiber channels and tapes. We can't use it with a tape library. That's an issue in Latin America sometimes because a lot of clients still use tapes for budget reasons. Maybe they have a lot of archives. In North America and Europe, they do a lot of archiving, but they use the cloud more than we do. Sometimes we have to put together a Frankenstein where we connect another server to the tape library and send all the data there."
"We encountered data loss during the configuration process."
"The scalability of the solution is limited."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"Stability."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful."
"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."
"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 61 reviews while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 52nd in Backup and Recovery. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4, while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6. 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 Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Easy to use with a helpful dashboard, good support, and the deduplication feature saves heavily on storage space". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Rubrik.
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