We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and NetApp AltaVault based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The solution can scale up to one petabyte right now. It's very good for enterprise-level organizations."
"PowerProtect is a flexible solution that you can cover various cloud and on-premise environments."
"The most valuable feature is the inline data deduplication."
"Stable and scalable suite of solutions with deduplication, apart from data protection, storage, and backup."
"Deduplication and compression are the best features of the solution, which are popular and very effective."
"As our organization functions, we have a total of 2500+ primary sites and 6300+ secondary sites. All of our entire backup systems are totally dependent on this product. EMC Data Domain is very reliable and there are no issues using it since 2015."
"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's pretty simple. Once you set it, it goes; and then the idea of being able to get it to the cloud very quickly. It's kind of a set-it-forget-it."
"Its initial setup is easy."
"The solution can be used for all Office 365 applications."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is easy to use and integrate with whichever operating systems you use, providing you with a complete view, especially when you plan to migrate to some other operating system."
"The solution is very easy to use and it offers great support."
"Most importantly is having that island into that datacenter, and being able to address things in the same console. Thus, it is irrelevant where it's stored."
"It's so easy to work with."
"The flexibility. Being able to virtualize it, port it wherever I like, test my backups, test my DR capabilities whenever I like without impacting anybody."
"We are not able to deal directly with the OEM we have to go to their partners in Nigeria."
"The usage of this solution is a bit difficult to develop processes, and it takes a long time to market permits."
"The pricing model needs to be improved."
"DD doesn't have Intel's air gap technology."
"I would like to see some kind of integration with the ransomware in the next release."
"They need to make migration easier."
"I would like to see integration with public cloud."
"The price could be a little cheaper than it is now."
"I would like to see more web support."
"NetApp's own competing products complicate things."
"I really want to partner it with the SnapCenter. We haven't implemented that yet. We're upgrading all of our stuff to the ONTAP 9, which you had to have."
"The solution needs faster indexing."
"It would be nice if the solution was more complete. Many customers are looking for a single solution or silo that they can manage everything from. It would be nice, instead of having different products, if everything a client needed was in one solution."
"More capacity with the basic model of the AltaVault would probably help out."
"There are some bits it could do better. With tighter integration maybe with Veeam, or something like that, it'd be really good."
"More than a 500 volume limit. At the moment, it only supports up to 500 volumes for SnapMirror and that's a problem. We've got 750, so a larger limit for volume replicas for SnapMirror."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 63 reviews while NetApp AltaVault is ranked 12th in Deduplication Software with 17 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.6, while NetApp AltaVault is rated 7.8. 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 NetApp AltaVault writes "Though the solution's configuration phase can be difficult, the tool offers stability and scalability". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Veeam Backup & Replication and Rubrik, whereas NetApp AltaVault is most compared with Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, Veeam Backup & Replication, AWS Storage Gateway and Rubrik. See our Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs. NetApp AltaVault report.
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