"The initial setup was easy and simple."
"The solution is reliable and stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The Dell warranty is the most valuable feature."
"I find this solution to be cost-effective in providing data storage for clients."
"PowerVault comes with free software that performs functions like data deduplication and replication, which is cost-effective and delivers added value to the product."
"The most valuable feature of Dell PowerVault is its performance."
"Dell PowerVault is user-friendly and easy to deploy."
"The deduplication engine. Right now, we're at about 10.5 to 11 times deduplication of our backup data."
"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."
"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."
"Its initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the portability of large archived data. You're able to put things on large on-prem, low-cost storage and then augment that with even lower cost storage in the cloud."
"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."
"The solution can be used for all Office 365 applications."
"Being able to move data seamlessly from one-premise to the cloud (Azure). It works great. The backup solution is perfect for us."
"In the next release, I would like the deduplication and compression included, as well as the flash technology. It doesn't currently use it."
"The price of the solution could be lower."
"We need higher performance and more reliable storage."
"Dell PowerVault could improve by having a higher cache and file protocol support added."
"Sometimes integrating into a cluster can be difficult as you have to do it manually."
"PowerVault could be improved by increasing its memory cache capacity and adding the ability to export data to the cloud."
"In most instances, clients are using Dell PowerVault with tape drives, but we want to transition them away from tape drives due to the risk of data loss."
"We could set up the installation through a web server, but it's not very reactive on the web server. For example, when you launch a task, and you don't know exactly if the task has begun or if the task is in progress, or if it's finished. You have to wait for three to five to ten minutes to be sure that the task is running or in progress or finished. So at that point, it's not very good."
"It's a good product, but it's becoming outdated and moving to their other primary architecture."
"I would like to see more web support."
"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."
"More capacity with the basic model of the AltaVault would probably help out."
"The initial setup phase of the tool was difficult."
"There are some bits it could do better. With tighter integration maybe with Veeam, or something like that, it'd be really good."
"The solution needs faster indexing."
"What could be helpful is different user base authentication so then maybe we could allow different customers to point to a single appliance and they only see the backups and things that they have."
Dell PowerVault is ranked 2nd in Enterprise SAN with 23 reviews while NetApp AltaVault is ranked 38th in Cloud Backup with 17 reviews. Dell PowerVault is rated 8.4, while NetApp AltaVault is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerVault writes "Easy to use with good integrations and reasonable 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 PowerVault is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Huawei OceanStor SNS, Lenovo Storage V Series and Quantum DXi Series, whereas NetApp AltaVault is most compared with Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, Rubrik, AWS Storage Gateway and HPE StoreOnce.
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