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 initial setup was straightforward. Deployment takes about two weeks."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerProtect DD are reduplication and compression. It provides a lot of data savings for backups. Additionally, the Dell PowerProtect DD solution offers a bundled backup software and storage option. If desired, users can also connect to cloud technology to create an additional copy of their data in the cloud. This solution supports synchronization with various cloud vendors, including Azure and AWS."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"Stable and scalable suite of solutions with deduplication, apart from data protection, storage, and backup."
"Short backup window has made a difference in the way my organization functions."
"Good starting capacity and scalability."
"The hardware can operate in high temperatures, in case of any disaster."
"The product provides good backup and compression services."
"The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency."
"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."
"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."
"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."
"Ability to restore to any host."
"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."
"The pricing model needs to be improved."
"The software from Dell that can be used to operate Data Domain needs to have enhancements made to the user interface. It is too complex."
"We would like to see the price of this solution brought down to be comparable with similar products currently on the market."
"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."
"It helps if you have in-depth knowledge in order to use it correctly."
"They should reduce the CPC cost to customers. The product is becoming very expensive."
"They need to make migration easier."
"The licensing model was the biggest concern for our company, but the poor support after the initial implementation is of equal concern."
"Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."
"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."
"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."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"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."
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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 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews. 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 Veritas Backup Exec.
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