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DD Boost vs Quest QoreStor comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

DD Boost
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Deduplication Software (4th)
Quest QoreStor
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Data Replication (22nd)
 

Featured Reviews

A. AhadAlam - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 13, 2024
Offers communication with Data Domain and NetWorker devices through impressive scalability
The initial setup can be simple or complex based on multiple conditions. I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The deployment of the solution in our organization was quite easy. The entire deployment process took about a week in our company. We faced a challenge during deployment in our organization; when the NetWorker was installed, multiple ports opened up for backup and restoration to communicate with clients. Our company would recommend that the NetWorker restrict the solution to two or three standalone ports. NetWorker has around ten thousand ports that are required to communicate with clients. Presently, we are reducing the aforementioned ports on the NetWorker by keeping the active ports open and monitoring daily.
WS
Apr 14, 2021
Multi-thread backups and snapshotting have eliminated the scheduling issues we had to deal with around backups
I can only replicate into one cloud environment or what they call a Cloud Tier. This might be because of the level of my license, but I was hoping, for security of data, to be able to back up into multiple Cloud Tiers. The cloud provider I work with has facilities where I am, here in Boston, but they also have a facility in Dallas and pretty soon they're going to have a facility in London. But the current software that I have will only allow me to do one. It would be nice to have the security of knowing that, in a super-disastrous situation where we lost our data center and the cloud environment in the same facility, we would have data stored remotely in another facility across the country. It would cost me twice as much but it's not very expensive to put this relatively small amount of data into the cloud. If I had that option I would do it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We can retain the data for a pretty long time."
"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."
"It's stable and reliable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can support both the CIFS and NFS protocols simultaneously."
"The backup aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"It cuts down network traffic, and only the relevant parts move around because it is deduced and encrypted."
"The most valuable features are the performance and the duplication."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is deduplication."
"It integrates with various backup software solutions, which makes it compatible with existing backup workflows and processes."
"The features we use for the data deduplication are nice because we're able to back up a much larger amount of data, yet it doesn't necessarily take up that much data on the devices."
"QoreStor has helped us to reduce our backup storage requirements on-premises. We've been using the same devices for quite a while, and so it lets us keep using them as opposed to having to rip out all that hardware and create a new on-prem solution. The advantage here is even if we had to retire the hardware tomorrow, the QoreStor part doesn't change. We just have to have additional hardware and put the solution back on whatever hardware we pick and it'll do the same thing."
"Data deduplication and replication would be the top two features. The encryption and cloud tiering are also attractive for the future."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature. It saves us a lot of space. When we back up 100 terabytes of data, after dedupe, it only uses maybe five to six terabytes for the disk space in QoreStor."
"The dedupe and compression are pretty extreme. On disk, we're getting dedupe rates of up to 65 percent of data and compression of 34 percent. When you go to the cloud, it's more like 76 percent for dedupe and almost 50 percent for compression."
 

Cons

"It would be good if the product could be useful not just for general backup. Its pricing is also expensive, and it can be a difficult application, particularly when you need to write a script for anything you would like to do."
"There are limitations when using the VTL protocol in extreme cases."
"Some competitors may not allow the use of DD Boost with their data management systems. The application process is not determined at the source site but on the estimation side."
"The solution could always be cheaper."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly for the end-users."
"Though the customer uses the product, they don't receive active support from DD Boost even though they pay for it."
"This solution should cover more platforms, and there should be more product coverage."
"The main issue I've identified is that when backing up a final backup from the branch server, we don't have deduplication functionality."
"The setup of the software is definitely not the easiest thing. I worked a lot with Quest engineers, especially in the early days when we were first testing it and trying it out. I actually had some of the developers working with us at one point because they were going through these point releases, and I was having trouble getting it to work in this S3-compatible situation. We got it all working eventually, but setup is definitely not the easiest thing in the world."
"The installation could use improvement. The initial installation was a little touchy and it's not really user-installable. You have to have a connection to support to install."
"The ransomware protection of QoreStor could use improvement."
"They need to increase their maximum capacity. Other than that, they're doing a pretty good job."
"In terms of improvement, we would like to have an Air Gap feature to prevent a virus from attaching to something. So that when we don't do a backup, we want the QoreStor to stay offline. It would be a nice feature to have."
"The management interface is in need of improvement. The graphical user interface (GUI) for the web management tools appears clunky, and not super intuitive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We scale this product by adding licenses, which are related to capacity."
"Dell EMC Data Domain Boost is an expensive product. There are extra costs for support because every year, you have to renew your SLA for support, and the cost is always increasing."
"DD Boost's price is good for its features."
"The pricing is competitive when compared to other vendors."
"The pricing is high compared to the competition and should be reconsidered."
"The solution is expensive."
"The pricing is definitely competitive and unmatchable. The price of Data Domain is very attractive compared to HPE, StoreOnce, or its current alternative, which is probably more expensive."
"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The price of the product is on a higher scale, meaning not everybody can afford it."
"The cost is per terabyte, and overall, the cost was reasonable when compared to some competitors."
"Its pricing model is very attractive. You have one price, and you get everything from QoreStor."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Non Profit
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DD Boost?
The time taken for backup is very fast.
What needs improvement with DD Boost?
In one and half years at our company, we have faced only one challenge with DD Boost, which is the password expiry. By default, the password of DD Boost expires in thirty days, after which a query ...
What else besides data replication does QoreStor offer?
Quest QoreStor can be used for multiple things besides data replication. For example, it can be trusted to make a backup of your data. You know that replication and backups are different, right? Re...
How does Quest QoreStore protect your data?
One of our favorite features of Quest QoreStore for data protection isn't the backup, actually, though we're using it actively (maybe just as much as data replication, to be honest). We absolutely ...
How does Quest QoreStore solve repetitive data replicas?
When I first found out about data replication and the many benefits it had, I couldn't help but wonder - what about the copies you don't need? Like it's unavoidable for some of the copies to get da...
 

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American Airlines, at&t, Bank of America. Barclays, ebay, Ford
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