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 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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of this product are its guaranteed reliability and its duplication capability."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the integrated deduplication function."
"The product provides good backup and compression services."
"It's very competitive in terms of the price and technology. Also, the development team continuously makes updates. The data reduction feature is very useful."
"The deduplication feature is the most valuable part of the solution."
"9900 has around 1.5 petabits of capacity in a single rack, and that's huge."
"One way they have improved our organization is through the stability of the solution and the availability of the product."
"Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."
"Our performance is better."
"The most valuable feature for data recovery in IBM Spectrum Protect is its database protection capabilities."
"Regarding technical support, if one has the entire enterprise support, I would rate it a nine out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"EMC is very expensive for small customers."
"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 firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"DD Boost."
"It could be more secure."
"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
"First-time integrations are difficult in NetWorker. NetWorker software needs to be simplified. It's very complex."
"DD doesn't have Intel's air gap technology."
"I am looking forward to new features in the next release. One of the main features is the cloud storage integration, which was one of my main required features. I've had more difficult experiences with other platforms than with this one."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"They do not have a unified GUI, they only work on CLI and operations center, which is really complicated for the installation and configuration."
"Enhancements are required for backing up our virtual environment."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is not a very user-friendly tool."
"Sometimes we experience trouble with the backup transfer of the control files."
"This solution does not have good support for virtualization and a hyper-converged environment."
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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 Veritas NetBackup.
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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.
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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.