We performed a comparison between DD Boost and Dell Avamar 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."Data Domain is valuable, especially to restore data. For normal data, the restore from Data Domain is very efficient and fast."
"The time taken for backup is very fast."
"This product's unique protocol make it superior to competing products and alternate solutions."
"The solution can scale."
"The backup aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"DD Boost has improved our data backup and recovery process. Its data deduplication feature is amazing. The product comes with cloud features. It helps to save time."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is deduplication."
"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."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"The solution is very stable."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"Every product is good and bad, but its claim to fame is that it is scalable. We're doing more than 3,000 VMs. Every single night a complete image backup to disks and replication are easily done in under four hours."
"Dell Avamar has helped our organization by allowing us to do backups."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual backup."
"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."
"If you are using it with Recovery Manager, there are certain limitations. If those limitations are addressed, productivity will improve."
"This product is expensive compared to other storage so the price can be improved."
"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."
"The solution could improve by adding more flexibility for the customers here in Thailand. Some of the small capacity models of the solution are not needed by our customers. There should be a more flexible version of the solution."
"This solution should cover more platforms, and there should be more product coverage."
"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."
"DD Boost is a bit expensive."
"The solution doesn't scale. If you hit your capacity, you need to buy a new device."
"Compared with Cohesity or Rubrik, which have some continuous data protection for backup and replication, this solution tends to lack in this area."
"When we used the solution, it was still new, and so the customer service/technical support was not the best."
"Backup image browse times should be faster."
"There are limitations when trying to use this solution with Hyper-V."
"Avamar is dependent on the hardware. It can't be implemented with ordinary storage. It can only be implemented with an EMC product. We want to have a backup solution that allows us to use independent storage and other hardware. It would be good if they can simplify its technology and make it possible to implement it with another storage. This is probably not possible because Avamar is an EMC product, and EMC would like to sell its own products."
"It's not the best solution for big databases."
"Its ability to back up very large objects can be improved. In terms of new features, they can include the ability to use cloud services, like S3, more natively."
"It's an expensive solution."
DD Boost is ranked 4th in Deduplication Software with 31 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 3rd in Deduplication Software with 81 reviews. DD Boost is rated 8.6, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of DD Boost writes "Enhancing backup and recovery operations and accelerating backup and restore processes while seamlessly integrating with various backup software applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". DD Boost is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Quantum DXi Series, whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell Data Protection Advisor. See our DD Boost vs. Dell Avamar report.
See our list of best Deduplication Software vendors.
We monitor all Deduplication Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
