We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM Spectrum Protect 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."
"It's very easy to use the domain once it's been set up. The interface is also user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Dell PowerProtect DD are ease of use and deduplication."
"Dell PowerProtect DD’s most valuable feature is data deduplication."
"Short backup window has made a difference in the way my organization functions."
"We have never had any issues with Data Domain. It has been stable."
"The product provides good backup and compression services."
"The most valuable feature is the inline data deduplication."
"A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical."
"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"It is also a product that has been maturing for a long time. This is good because customers need reliability in their enterprise initiatives."
"We are talking about a stable solution which boasts good performance and security."
"We've found the product to be quite stable and the performance is very good."
"Our customers have come to trust IBM."
"Scalability, performance, mass platform coverage. It's one of the few backup products on the market right now which an organization can bring in and it will serve all of their backup needs. It's a completely centralized solution."
"We have some problems with backing up on the Power Platform. PowerServer is an IBM product, and it forces us to back up over LAN, which is not suitable for us."
"I would like to see better integration and support for backing up to cloud providers such as Alibaba Cloud."
"Its management can be improved."
"First-time integrations are difficult in NetWorker. NetWorker software needs to be simplified. It's very complex."
"The initial setup is complex."
"They should reduce the CPC cost to customers. The product is becoming very expensive."
"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."
"The tool's DD Boost is expensive."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"Sometimes we experience trouble with the backup transfer of the control files."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The GUI has long been a problem for TSM/Spectrum Protect."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 25 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 18 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Offers 99.999% uptime, has useful deduplication features, and offers great compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Works with a multitude of platforms and databases, not limited to Windows or Linux and enterprise-class, reliable, and fast". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and HPE StoreOnce.
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In my opinion DD have better compression/dedup and also good aggregated replication speed, however it lack all functionality which is provided SP! Also as a hardware based solution we struggle with scaling up DD ! Comparison is not entirely possible since these are completely different purpose and usage ! In the environment we use DD as a disc storage for staging SP made backups!
IBM Spectrum Protect is a "Backup and Recovery" product, while Dell EMC Data Domain is the backup *storage* appliance. They have their respective market.
Though I must say that DD is the leader, while SP is a struggling product.. i.e there is no comparision.
DD is deduplication target while IBM Spectrum protect is brand new name for and old and creepy TSM
The biggest difference is that you will not create complementary backup solution with DD only, you need some kind of backup software to do it for you.
TSM (or IBM Spectrum protect) can write backups to DD.
I would say to you that the two solutions are complementary, work harmoniously without any problem.
Thanks for reaching out.
EMC Data Domain has an ecosystem for data management supporting several protocols and day structures. Best deduplication rate I have ever seen, full integration with RMAN for Oracle and VTL architecture and integration. The holistic view of data management and easy to deploy plus apply SLA and retention policies.
Also, it’s fast very fast! The platform is expensive and maintenance is not cheap so a client needs to prepare for this both capitally and operationally. The Platform can support other software not just their own Networker software, so very flexible.
IBM has lost market share in this space and as per clients feedback and Gartner, IBM is NOT a leader or visionary in this space.m
I would look at the way they dedup. DataDomain uses variable-length deduplication so they are very effective. I do not know anything about the IBM product, but we have dealt with IBM and in my opinion, the difference that is going to make the biggest impact is the way they sell TCO. EMC almost negatively impacts themselves by giving a more realistic and often more expensive quote, where IBM gives a seemingly cheaper solution, but later on, it works out more.
EMC Data Domain has an ecosystem for data management supporting several protocols and day structures. Best deduplication rate I have ever seen, full integration with RMAN for Oracle and VTL architecture and integration. The holistic view of data management and easy to deploy plus apply SLA and retention policies.
Also, it’s fast very fast! The platform is expensive and maintenance is not cheap so a client needs to prepare for this both capitally and operationally. The Platform can support other software not just their own Networker software, so very flexible.
IBM has lost market share in this space and as per clients feedback and Gartner, IBM is NOT a leader or visionary in this space in my opinion. EMC DD has also evolved to challenge the HCI players with their own IDPA (Integrated Data Protection Appliance).
All clients should look for:
- simplicity
- public cloud integration
- S3 and other relevant protocol integrations
- Native ransomware protection
- Ease of operations
- Cost reduction
- Hyper Visor agnostic approach plus containerization integration
I don't have experience with IBM Spectrum Protect, but I do have experience with Data Domain.
I would recommend it. It's very stable, has high performance, and the highest deduplication engine.