Barracuda Intronis Backup vs DD Boost comparison

"They are the best support that we have had so far. When you contact or email them, they are very quick to respond. They always have someone available for us. That's what we want as a customer, we want someone to listen to us."

"The product is easy to install and use while doing what it is expected to do."

"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."

"The cloud side of it is nice. Everything happens behind the scenes without you realizing it, which is nice. It doesn't interrupt usage. There is also the freedom and ease of use of the cloud portal, which you can use to manage your backup. One of the strong points of Barracuda is that you can go from zero to having your first backup running within 10 minutes. If you have access to admin accounts and everything else, it can happen in 10 minutes. The ability to go in and just restore a particular file without having to do a full restore is also very useful. You can just go in and pick the files that you need to restore, and the same is with email. You can just go in, find an email, and restore that email without having to do a full backup of all the data or a full restore of the data. I feel very safe because it is not just about the backup; it is about the protection of the data from outside threats. They have a lot of areas of ATP, that is, advanced threat protection. You don't see that much on the backup side. You see it more on the email side. In the email protection, you know it is there at the back. It moves the quarantine emails that come through into a sandbox area, and then you can choose in the sandbox. You can open up an email in the sandbox to make sure that if there is a virus, it can't harm you. You can also plan how often your backups run, such as every six hours or four hours. It is the same with email. They also have a great PhishLine package, which is phishing attack training. You can have the strongest and the best backup and security that you can, but the end user is always the weakest link. They send almost like testing emails to end users to help them identify and understand phishing emails and prevent user or phishing attacks. It is a very good package."

"Whenever you have a crash or your service is not working, you can just live-boot the machine and have your service up and running."

"Easy, immediate protection for data that is virtually infinitely scalable."

"The most valuable feature is unlimited data storage on the cloud. Even if the employee has left the company for a few years, the backup will still be maintained."

"It is very stable, and I'm very happy with this solution."

"The time taken for backup is very fast."

"It's stable and reliable."

"The tool's deployment was easy."

"This product's unique protocol make it superior to competing products and alternate solutions."

"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."

"DD Boost is a proprietary technology of Dell, which helps to store the data faster and in a more secure way compared to open protocols."

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

"Overall, I would recommend DD Boost as it is reliable, stable, and offers financial benefits through data deduplication and performance improvements in backups."

"Its speed can be a bit improved, and of course, its pricing can go a lot cheaper."

"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications."

"Compared to Avamar and Data Domain (our other systems), the backup speed is slow."

"The search features must be improved."

"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see cloud support and deduplication functionality."

"Barracuda Backup could use some more integration."

"This solution could be improved with offering lower prices at scale."

"It is not always stable."

"The solution needs to be more user-friendly for the end-users."

"DD Boost could improve the solution by offering additional customizations that build upon existing features such as deduplication ratios. The primary objective of the solution is to create backups of existing data and push that data out to clients' backup systems. If they can make the process faster and introduce more enhancements, it would greatly benefit the backup environment."

"When my company faced a problem with the product, it took some time to get proper support."

"There are some limitations where you cannot use it as a shared server or as a file server, it is limited for the only backup."

"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."

"Technical support is okay but could be improved. I've sent a lot of complaints their way and I feel like they might be able to respond a bit better."

"The solution could be faster."

"If we talk about Dell backup software, there is room for improvement in areas such as backup from IBM operating systems, open-source products, and Office 365."

"The price of the five-year contract was approximately three million Rupees ($42,000 USD)."

"You don't need to buy an extra license or agent. With one box, you have licenses for any amount of devices that you want to backed up for whatever is backed up."

"Normally, there is the hardware on the site. So, essentially, there is a server and storage. They can price it a little lower because the customers are making a little investment upfront. Even though it is trouble-free for the end-users, and once it is set up and running, they don't have to really think about it, there is essentially an initial investment. It is not really pricey. We're actually competitive, but we are in a different market. In Asia, customers are a little more price-sensitive than in the west. It is not really a real issue."

"Low, fixed cost with great savings."

"It allows us a low cost backup solution for hardware-based, VMware, and Hyper-V systems all from a single platform."

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

"What I like best about Barracuda Backup is the licensing model."

"It is about 6,900 or 7,000 a year. It goes up a little every year. Its price includes live updates, support, antivirus, and cloud storage. If I increase the cloud space, then the price would increase. It has been consistent for us."

"My company must pay approximately 10,000 USD annually, making it an expensive product."

"The pricing is competitive when compared to other vendors."

"The solution is 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 solution is very good because it is easy to use and it speeds up the backup and lowers the requirement for the storage rate. It is capable of encryption, compression, and deduplication and it is fast for sending all of the data over the network because it sends only the change blocks from the client to the DD server."

"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."

"The pricing is high compared to the competition and should be reconsidered."

"You don't have to pay additional costs."