We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP 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 most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."
"This product is extremely user-friendly and it is capable of performing large-scale archive/backup (five+ years worth). It is easy to store, maintain, and check backups."
"It's simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."
"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"The technology has been very useful. There are lots of features on offer."
"The solution can scale up to one petabyte right now. It's very good for enterprise-level organizations."
"Deduplication and compression are the best features of the solution, which are popular and very effective."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the inline data deduplication."
"Dell PowerProtect DD is a stable solution."
"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."
"Its pricing is not overly expensive."
"The initial setup was complex."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."
"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."
"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."
"The pricing could be lower."
"Its management can be improved."
"We would like to see the price of this solution brought down to be comparable with similar products currently on the market."
"The pricing model needs to be improved."
"Dell PowerProtect DD should come out with its own system so we do not have to use Data Domain. For example, something similar to what Symantec has done."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The usage of this solution is a bit difficult to develop processes, and it takes a long time to market permits."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
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Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 41 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 61 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas Backup Exec, Rubrik and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication.
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