We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup 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 feature is the inline data deduplication."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the integrated deduplication function."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this product are its guaranteed reliability and its duplication capability."
"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."
"It works within backup windows and has got good deduplication."
"Its pricing is not overly expensive."
"I find the data to be most valuable."
"We believe that everything Veritas NetBackup offers, including backups, snapshots, deduplication, and replication, is valuable."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"This is a product that has been on the market for a while and they have mastered the backup process, especially when backing up to tape, for most environments."
"This product is flexible enough to allow for backing up data from physical machines, as well as from your cloud environment."
"The tool's most valuable feature is backups."
"The tool's information transfer and patching up is easy. The solution offers protection from ransomware which is also a valuable feature."
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"Backup and recovery software with great stability, and can support large-scale environments."
"It helps if you have in-depth knowledge in order to use it correctly."
"I would like to see integration with public cloud."
"Dell PowerProtect DD could improve by having better integration with other backup solutions."
"I would like to see better integration and support for backing up to cloud providers such as Alibaba Cloud."
"The pricing could be better, but it's still not too expensive."
"The pricing model needs to be improved."
"Dell EMC Data Domain needs to have better compatibility between NetWorker and the hardware. NetWorker is not as good as the other products which are currently on the market like Backup Exec."
"The downside of PowerProtect's flexibility is that you have so many options. It can be a little confusing. It's like having a car with too many buttons on the dash. You can do so much with it, but it takes some time to learn what everything does."
"They need to improve their support. In the beginning, their engineers had trouble understanding the issue we were presenting. It took a lot of conversations for them to start troubleshooting the problem."
"There is room for improvement in the implementation of Power servers."
"The speed of restoring data could be improved."
"The ability to use different disk appliance brands as Pure Disk (not OST), such as EMC Data Domain ."
"We want a solution that can be scaled-out because our data is growing very quickly, and we aren't able to back it up quickly. It takes one or two days, which is a problem. It is very slow. We just use one backup server. We want another solution with maybe a backup server cluster to back up more data in one day. We want a solution that can be scaled-out to back up our data quickly and efficiently."
"Once the protection plan is created, we cannot pause or resume via the web administration page."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
"It's not a user-friendly solution. It's a little bit complicated. The UI is not very friendly."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 61 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. 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 Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup Appliance.
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