We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and NetApp FAS Series 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."It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of this product are its guaranteed reliability and its duplication capability."
"Its pricing is not overly expensive."
"We have found the product to be scalable."
"We have never had any issues with Data Domain. It has been stable."
"The solution can scale up to one petabyte right now. It's very good for enterprise-level organizations."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Dell EMC PowerProtect DD are its deduplication feature and its DD Boost protocol for fast transfer, which is amazing."
"I like the different features. We work closely with Dell on different products and features, which is why we use them all."
"Compression of the backup Oracle by RMAN on NFS saves space 5:1."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"It has integrated snapshot and backup capability."
"The most valuable feature for us is the combining of HA and SnapMirror."
"Adaptive balancing is a valuable feature."
"The initial setup was so straightforward. It was well-documented."
"It changed the way we do Disaster Recovery (DR) around NetApp replication."
"Has rock solid reliability and is easy to use."
"The firmware upgrades could be simplified. I'm in the process of struggling to upgrade right now."
"First-time integrations are difficult in NetWorker. NetWorker software needs to be simplified. It's very complex."
"We have had deduplication and replication issues. When we used another backup software we noticed that it didn't have the same issues."
"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."
"They should reduce the CPC cost to customers. The product is becoming very expensive."
"We would like to see the price of this solution brought down to be comparable with similar products currently on the market."
"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."
"EMC is very expensive for small customers."
"Needs to add wizards for newer, inexperienced users."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"NetApp systems are somewhat more complex, though not excessively so. If you're transitioning from a Windows server environment to NetApp, get training or education; otherwise, you might struggle with this solution."
"They should add new features to the product."
"I would like to see NetApp add incident support."
"NetApp FAS Series should improve its price, which is expensive."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 25 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 19 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers fast data transfer between NetApp systems and highly scalable, accommodating clusters with significant storage capacity". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Rubrik and DD Boost, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, IBM FlashSystem and HPE StoreEasy. See our Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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@Dhruba Roy, your question conflates very different kinds of storage.
PowerProtect DD is Dell's latest version of Data Domain. It is ONLY useful as target storage for backups. Nothing else, not even archiving. If that is what you want, it does what it's supposed to do. Albeit, it's a bit pricey and underperforming.
There are much faster, cheaper, and more advanced backup target storage. Especially when measuring restore performance. I would suggest you take a hard look at a variety of backup target storage vendors including, Infinidat InfiniGuard, ExaGrid, Quantum, StorONE, iXsystems, and many more. Most backup target storage is all HDD although some are hybrid SSD and HDD.
NetApp FAS is a general-purpose storage system for blocks and files. It can be all HDD, hybrid HDD and SSD, or all SSD (all-flash FAS or AFF). It's a solid all around storage system with NetApp pioneered capabilities, but expensive as a backup storage target.
Pure Storage FlashArray//X or //C are block all-flash storage arrays. Their FlashBlades are all flash file and object storage systems. Good performers but overkill and way too expensive for backup target storage.
I think you need to define what it is you really need. Of the 3 vendors you asked about, I am going to repeat myself, PowerProtect DD is ONLY useful as a target storage for backups. The other two can do so, but are really not priced nor designed specifically for backup target storage.
If general purpose storage is what you need NetApp and PureStorage are good possibilities among many others.
I think they are different types of storage for different purposes.
If you are looking for a storage where to put backups data you can think Data Domain is the perfect choice because it is its main use (most or all the backup softwares have plugins in ordere to manage data domains).
If you are looking for a primary storage (where to put your servers' data) then you can look to Netapp FAS and Purestorage.
The latter are flash natives so it's simpler to manage and configure. If you look at the Netapp FAS you can also choose storages with HDDs with less performance (and a cheaper price).