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 most valuable features of Dell PowerProtect DD are ease of use and deduplication."
"The most important feature is the level of data compression provided by Dell EMC. It's a leader in data compression and deduplication, and the level of compression isn't available with any other vendors in the market."
"It is stable. I would rate the stability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"I like the different features. We work closely with Dell on different products and features, which is why we use them all."
"Our clients like the wide range of features that are available within this single solution."
"The stability is excellent."
"It works within backup windows and has got good deduplication."
"Good deduplication and compression features."
"It is pretty easy to use and maintain."
"Traditional archiving. One of our revenue streams involves maintaining archives of our customers' data for very long periods of time."
"Its flexibility is valuable. It is a very flexible solution. There are always more ways than one to do something. It is a software solution, which means you can buy your own hardware and expand it whenever you want. You are not boxed in or locked into something you've bought and outgrown. You can always expand it."
"We have a very good team of administrators who know the product perfectly and are able to manage it on a day-to-day basis."
"In general, the solution is quite user-friendly. The GUI is very nice."
"Spectrum Protect's best feature is that I can use it practically anywhere, on any platform, and for any servers or clients."
"We do not lose data. That is why we are using this product and have a backup in place."
"DD Boost."
"It could be more secure."
"They need to make migration easier."
"They should reduce the CPC cost to customers. The product is becoming very expensive."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"It helps if you have in-depth knowledge in order to use it correctly."
"We would like to see the price of this solution brought down to be comparable with similar products currently on the market."
"The product lacks some security features that would make it more stand-alone and integrated."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"We are not so happy with the technical support because dealing with them is not easy. We have a very complicated environment, therefore I understand for a support person that it is not easy to troubleshoot it."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"It has a lot of areas for improvement. Its reporting for job completion or incompletion can be improved. It should also provide a granular recovery, ease of operation, data life cycle management, and media management. It should support a backup in such a format that in case of a disaster, one can start the virtual machine out of the backup itself. Its reliability can also be better. It is also expensive, and their support is also poor."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 61 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 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 "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". 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.