We performed a comparison between DD Boost and NetApp FAS Series 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."The functionality is very good. DD Boost and DD entry replication are used in almost all backup concepts. Those are the most used features."
"It's a stable solution."
"Data Domain is valuable, especially to restore data. For normal data, the restore from Data Domain is very efficient and fast."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it can support both the CIFS and NFS protocols simultaneously."
"The tool's deployment was easy."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The initial setup of DD Boost involves a simple procedure."
"Very stable solution."
"You can use different protocols at the same time. Monitoring is also very easy in NetApp FAS Series. There is a free tool for monitoring."
"The input and output per second performance are satisfactory."
"The most important features are SnapVault, Snapshots, and SnapMirror."
"Saves space with deduplication"
"The new FAS series is a good fit for some customers. We have good performance and capacity, even though it is full flash."
"Fast Snapshots"
"End-users like that they can rely on the Snapshot technology so they can do their restores themselves."
"Flexible and reliable storage solution with multiple features such as cloning, replication, and deduplication. Data migration can be done without any performance implications on the production systems."
"My customer was interested in ransomware protection. Currently, Dell offers the Cyber Vault solution, which is separate from Data Domain. Ideally, ransomware protection would be integrated directly within DD Boost, without requiring an additional out-of-the-box solution. This feature is currently available with HPE's Zerto and Huawei's Ocean Protect with third-party products like PradoNet. While Cyber Vault exists as a separate solution from Data Domain, having some standard protection for immutable backups into DD Boost would be a valuable addition and make it more competitive with other vendors."
"The solution could always be cheaper."
"The solution needs a better gateway between the on-premises and cloud deployment models. We have to work around it or find a third party to assist."
"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."
"The experience of restoring VMware or Veeam Backup is difficult, when the backup you are using is a solution for backup, which is already having a deduplication. When you try to restore from Data Domain, it doesn't work perfectly, because Data Domain is already having a deduplication as well."
"It would be nice if they could have the same tool set right from the smallest to the biggest modules, but being specific frame dependent."
"When my company faced a problem with the product, it took some time to get proper support."
"DD Boost is a bit expensive."
"The user interface could be improved to have better graphics and the performance analyzer could be better."
"If our customer needs a high-performance storage solution then we don't recommend this product."
"We would like to have further integration with some backup products. They have some of them already, but there could be more."
"Replication should ideally be part of the ONTAP base bundle."
"No other area for improvement comes to mind other than its price. Making the price more attractive will help this solution have a bigger market share."
"We are not able to connect to the support of NetApp from Sudan. We have to go through many agents for support, which makes it difficult."
"NetApp needs to put its OS on a microchip rather than on disks."
"There are some technical limitations, but it would be great to have in-line deduplication and in-line compression for the FAS series as well."
DD Boost is ranked 4th in Deduplication Software with 30 reviews while NetApp FAS Series is ranked 5th in Deduplication Software with 97 reviews. DD Boost is rated 8.6, while NetApp FAS Series is rated 8.8. 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 NetApp FAS Series writes "Offers good performance and ". DD Boost is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Dell Avamar and IBM ProtectTIER, whereas NetApp FAS Series is most compared with Dell PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp AFF, HPE StorageWorks MSA, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and IBM FlashSystem. See our DD Boost vs. NetApp FAS Series report.
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