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Dell CloudBoost vs StorSimple comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Dell CloudBoost
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (52nd)
StorSimple
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage Gateways (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Dell CloudBoost is designed for Cloud Backup and holds a mindshare of 0.8%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
StorSimple, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Storage Gateways, holds 8.0% mindshare, up 3.4% since last year.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell CloudBoost0.8%
Veeam Data Platform6.7%
Commvault Cloud4.6%
Other87.9%
Cloud Backup
Cloud Storage Gateways Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
StorSimple8.0%
Nasuni21.1%
CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform18.0%
Other52.9%
Cloud Storage Gateways
 

Featured Reviews

SK
Senior Technical Consultant at DWP Technologies
Stable solution with a wider boost functionality, helping us eliminate the tape backup requirements
We use the solution to protect the applications running in the cloud or on-premises. Its wider boost functionality helps us eliminate the tape backup requirements The solution's most valuable feature is throttling the applications as per the bandwidth. Using it, we can adapt a method to work on…
it_user687201 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT-Consultant Microsoft Solutions at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The deduplication technology saves time within a disaster recovery case.
The deduplication technology is the most valuable feature. It saves time within a disaster recovery case I hope that the virtual device in the cloud will get more functionality! I have used this solution for five years. The product is very stable. Due to the fact that it is combined with…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's support team is excellent."
"My customer has Dell EMC CloudBoost integrated with all of their other Dell products; it integrates well and is very simple to use, making it easy for him to make copies of very important files to the public cloud because it is fully integrated with his Networker and Avamar's tools."
"My customer has Dell EMC CloudBoost integrated with all of their other Dell products. It integrates well."
"The deduplication technology is the most valuable feature."
"This device has made it possible for us to almost entirely do away with Tape backup."
"This product is easy to use and does all the work in the background for cloud replication and migration."
 

Cons

"They should eliminate the tape-out function from the solution."
"The price of Dell EMC CloudBoost could be reduced, it is expensive."
"Had a SSD drive go bad in one of our older units. This was replaced under our service plan, but during the rebuild process encountered a bad block in another SSD that it was reading from and downed the device hard."
"I hope that the virtual device in the cloud will get more functionality!"
"I would like more options besides iSCSI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Dell EMC CloudBoost could be reduced, it is expensive."
"Its cost depends upon the amount of data that needs to be protected."
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Sample Customers

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