DD Boost Scalability

Sanjeevan Sivapaleswararajah - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Network Ict at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Currently, scaling is not feasible as it requires a renewal of support services.

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AdnanJavaid - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at Multilynx

I would rate the scalability a six out of ten. 

In my experience, HPE StoreOnce Catalyst backups and NFS backups offer better performance compared to backups primarily relying on Data Domain.

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Michael Schwarzer - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at INT/box GmbH

The solution works well for enterprise organizations. 

I'd rate the ability to scale eight out of ten. It can scale. It is a midrange backup solution, and therefore, I'm not giving it a perfect ten. That said, it is possible to expand it. If you want to scale up, you need to understand the exact range, and you have to choose another model. 

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MR
Deputy Secretary at Life Insurance Corporation of India

We are using five databases which are not distributed. Everything is in one data centre only.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

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Vaidyanathan Swaminathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Tech RIdge Solutions

It is difficult to scale the tool. I rate the scalability a four or five out of ten. Increasing the capacity is expensive. Our clients are mostly medium-sized businesses. We also have enterprise customers.

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Nilesh Nn - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr IT Consultant at Midis Group

The solution is scalable.

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Kenneth Etsula - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Dataposit Ltd

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten. The sizing part of the solution was done properly, so there was no need to tackle any scalability concerns.

Less than five people from the system side use the solution in our organization.

My company has around five administrators working with this solution.

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Robert-Nilsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at Gignos

There are no limitations when it comes to the scalability feature of the product. You can scale up or scale down however much you want. I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten.

Around 150 of my company's customers in Sweden use the product.

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Mohamed El-Sherbini - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Mada Insurance

DD Boost is scalable. 

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Mohamed El-Sherbini - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Mada Insurance

Dell EMC Data Domain Boost is a scalable product.

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Mark Torpy - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Protection Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited

I have found the solution to be scalable.

We have approximately 10 people using this solution in my organization.

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Abderahim Raissi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Pre-Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable. It's easy to expand. 

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Mahmoud-Yassin - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure and Security Operations at United Arab Bank

The problem with Data Domain is you have to size it to the right size for your workloads before you choose. Upgrading the platform is not that easy.

You can add some more shelves, but this will not give you that much capacity for your workload. You have to ensure that you study the workload well.

To be precise, it is not scalable if you are jumping from small to medium or from medium to large. Within the medium tier, however, it is scalable.

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JuanBurbano - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Gensystems

I rate DD Boost's scalability a ten out of ten. 

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Abderahim Raissi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Pre-Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We scale this product by adding licenses, which are related to capacity.

We have clients of all sizes including small, medium, and enterprise businesses.

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CR
Storage specialist at Vodacom Business

It is scalable because as the number of clients grows, our target storage will also have to grow to store all the data. We have to have more front-end ports to spread parallelly, have file groups, and load balancing all configured as part of the DD Boost. I rate the scalability an eight out of ten.

We have about 6000 clients backed up, so about 600 servers that talk via DD Boost to the data domains.

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AZ
Storage Team Leader at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution doesn't scale. If you need to expand anything, you will need to buy a new model. You can't just scale up an existing model. If, after a year or two, you need to scale up, then you need to look at new boxes.

We have about 2,500 people in the company, however, just one special team actually uses the solution.

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Michael Schwarzer - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at INT/box GmbH

The scalability depends on the licensing model, but it is quite good.

Usually, my direct customer is an enterprise, but we also have customers in the small and mid-range sectors. The hardware platform is cost intense, so for small and mid-range, this product is not the best choice.

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AG
Backup & Storage Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The solution is quite scalable. An organization shouldn't have any problem expanding if they use this solution.

Our company extensively uses this solution. We did have issues with upgrading and we had to call back the Dell EMC team to assist.

For now, we have plans on expanding depending on the amount of storage we receive from our Cohesity box. We're still a very small team of three.

We are planning to have it on data center locations as well, but it is still in the planning stage so there are plenty of products that will be brought on later in the data center rooms so we can implement that in my own department.

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it_user801057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For now, I am very happy with the scalability. We have around 500 people using the solution and scaling has not been a problem. I once work system admin, now I'm a solution architect. Mainly system admins and architects directly use the platform.

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it_user801057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable for us right now. There is a limitation number on it, but for different architecture.

We have about 500 users.

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ME
System Engineer at Seal Software

This solution is scalable, but it's expensive.

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WA
Solution Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Some models of Dell EMC Data Domain Boost are scalable, there are some versions that are not as scalable as others.

We have approximately 10 customers using this solution.

We have system architects and engineers using this solution.

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SJ
Enterprise Engineer at Computech Limited

Scalability is good. I understand the concept, so for me, it's easy. Most of our clients are medium sizes enterprises in the financial sector.

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SJ
Trainer, storage consultant at Oxon

Scalability depends on the model that you have. For each model, you have a limited number of terabytes per hours. It provides the option to scale as you need it. Overall, scalability is great.

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CR
Storage specialist at Vodacom Business

I can't say that we had any issues in terms of either performance or capacity. This solution transports data between the client and the Data Domain. I would obviously like to have a better way to federate the Data Domains together as one, but that's not really possible. 

We have about ten people working on data protection. With Boost I've never had issues where we couldn't pump or dump data though in time, or that there were reliability issues, so I think the solution is scalable.

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it_user916722 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems and IT Manager at Chiyoda Almana Engineering LLC

The scalability is not good because if we want to upgrade then we need to purchase a higher version. We have approximately seven hundred and fifty employees, and all of their data is backed up.

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EH
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very scalable. It's easy to scale if you need to. We have about two or three licenses.

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