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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs HPE StoreOnce vs IBM Spectrum Protect comparison

 

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GopalSetia - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides backups, including long-term retention with increased uptime and compatibility
I was looking for a virtual edition, and that is now available. Many customers struggle to find a solution for ransomware protection, but we can set up an enterprise recovery vault for that purpose. These features are now part of Dell's overall offering. The solution has matured, and while I don't criticize technology, most of our technical and business requirements are met with the Data Domain storage solution. We can meet customer requirements easily with Data Domain. Some feedback has been received from our operations team. There’s always room for improvement. For instance, there may be suggestions regarding enhancements to the reporting dashboard
Andrew Mcbeath - PeerSpot reviewer
Maximized storage capacity and minimized costs and an easy setup
Most of our client base is between fifty to five hundred end users. We occasionally recommend high-end HPE products for larger clients needing performance and reliability. Our clients predominantly use HPE StoreOnce for small business purposes in industries like dairy and finance Our clients have…
Syed Habib - PeerSpot reviewer
Manageable and comprehensive and integrates robust backup features for core banking
It's adequate for my core banking, however, I am looking for another solution for all systems. It is not compatible with other operating systems like Windows or Linux, and lacks a consolidated dashboard from Browser Spectrum. This is why I am searching for another solution. The product also lacks any centralized graphical user interface (GUI), such as Jarek Pod, and I am limited to using a console-based text user interface, which my local partner handles completely.

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

Pros

"The backup is very secure. The deduplication using EMC is very good. We are able to make systems and handle random cloning. EMC is a very stable solution for making backups."
"Our clients like the wide range of features that are available within this single solution."
"The solution has been awesome over the last ten years, offering stability and reliability, which I recommend for stable storage."
"It's very competitive in terms of the price and technology. Also, the development team continuously makes updates. The data reduction feature is very useful."
"The stability is excellent."
"I like Data Domain as a protocol for data backup."
"By using Data Domain, we get the advantage of data deduplication, reducing data size."
"The solution can scale up to one petabyte right now. It's very good for enterprise-level organizations."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"I think StoreOnce's deduplication technology is crucial for cost efficiency and faster recovery, especially for backup and data protection purposes."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"HPE StoreOnce has high performance."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its catalyst mode, along with better performance, backup, and recovery."
"Recovery is important."
"The stability of the solution is excellent."
"The important feature is compression and duplication. It has a good compression ratio and is very stable."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The solution offers very good flexibility."
"We like IBM Spectrum's versioning capabilities. It lets us specify how many versions of a file we want to keep and for how long. Also, the archive component of the software helps us a lot."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"Nothing beats this solution for file backup."
"The tool proves invaluable in scenarios where systems need recovery, such as restoring damaged data."
"Regarding stability, it's been rock solid."
"It is a very stable solution."
 

Cons

"The price could be a little cheaper than it is now."
"Dell PowerProtect DD does not have integration with the cloud and virtualization software."
"The pricing could be lower."
"The licensing is not cost-effective, and the pricing could be better."
"The Data Domain solution appliance is quite expensive."
"We encountered data loss during the configuration process."
"We would like to see the price of this solution brought down to be comparable with similar products currently on the market."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution must provide backup options for smaller capacities."
"The product's price could be better."
"We archive our backups on tape, so I feel like if we could somehow plug our tape drive directly into the StoreOnce device and set it up to where it would archive based on, if some kind of rules based engine or what have you, that would really be an improvement for us."
"The dashboard needs more improvement."
"The GUI and its user-friendliness have some room for improvement."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"The solution's technical support should be faster."
"We're outsourced with a partner who recalls a larger amount of problems with the stability of the product."
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
"No one can fix every solution for backup and restore."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"Getting technical support all the necessary diagnostic information is still very painful."
"It is not easy to manage like other products in the market. It is okay only if you are command-line driven. Even though the operation center is there, it doesn't provide a single view of everything. You have to, for example, use TSMManager on top of it, which gives you a far better management capability, but it is a third-party product. Its management needs to be improved. There should be an HTML or graphical interface. It is a very difficult product. For example, you have a backup policy where you want a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly policy standard. It is an old kind of system where you have to keep retention for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups, which is very difficult in IBM Spectrum Protect. In other products, in a matter of five minutes, you can configure such a policy. In TSM, it takes you one, two, or three days because you need to configure a node for each of them. If you have 250 nodes, you have to configure each node for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention. If you have 1,000 nodes, it is going to take you ages just to configure and register the nodes. You need to configure the schedule and the CAD daemons or services, depending on whether it is a Unix or Windows OS. Unfortunately, it is a very long and drawn-out process. You have to stop and start the services for changes to take effect. This is a very difficult part of TSM in IBM Spectrum Protect. To configure a backup policy, I should be able to select the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly options in one screen and finish it. After that, everything should happen in the background. All the backup products in the market already do that, and they are very simple to manage. This particular part of this solution has really been a major pain area for us, and unfortunately, we could not find a workaround. There is nobody at IBM who can give us a way to configure all this easily through a GUI or even scripts."
"I would like to see more technical training online. Sometimes, it is a little bit difficult to find, or that I do not really know what I am looking for as somebody who is starting off finding their learning curve."
"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"When it comes to virtualization in IBM it's not perfect."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its price is reasonable."
"The price is really high compared to other vendors. The licensing cost is huge. Normal, mid-tier companies or small-scale companies wouldn't be able to afford it easily."
"The price of Dell EMC PowerProtect DD could improve, it is expensive."
"The approximate license cost for Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is around 5,00,000."
"The price of the backup appliance is slightly expensive. Compared to other vendors, the pricing will be slightly higher."
"It is expensive, but the performance and deduplication cover for the cost."
"The cost is expensive."
"Pricing is related to size. A lower range solution might be about $33,000. My customers use higher range versions with a price of around $100,000. That's the price for both the hardware and software."
"With the same capacity of Data Domain and ExaGrid, which is 80 terabytes, HPE is the cheapest one."
"The product's pricing is medium."
"The solution's cost is above average."
"The licensing costs is capacity-based and come bundled with support."
"HPE StoreOnce is cheaper compared to other solutions in the market."
"The product is not expensive. It is available at a good price."
"The cost of HPE StoreOnce is very expensive."
"We have got a perpetual license, and we have access to all the features. If you are using cloud banks, you can store the internal data in HPE Cloud if needed. You can offload the data to the HPE Cloud. It is a licensed product. We have got around 10 TB of cloud bank storage with a one-time payment. We specifically took 10 TB for very critical offsite backups. We can also increase it in blocks if needed."
"The solution has a capacity based licensing, front and back-end license."
"The pricing model of this solution is another difficult area, it's very sophisticated in the way they charge. It's based on PBU, which is a type of processor, how, many processors, and you need to put everything into an equation. However, they have different ways of charging or licensing. One way is a back-end volume or front-end volume, which is quite complicated."
"That's a hard estimate. It depends on the licensing, the hardware, and other stuff, but it is fairly expensive. It is generally more expensive than other solutions."
"Its licensing is complex, and its price is not really reasonable. It is on the expensive side. IBM, in general, is slightly expensive, but with IBM Spectrum for the virtual environment, they are looking into the aspect of helping customers with the cost and providing a cost-effective solution."
"We worked our licensing into a capacity model, which is nice. Now, everything is much simpler to manage from a licensing perspective."
"The solution is expensive."
"The product is not cheap."
"There may be an advantage to going with IBM in terms of pricing. They have a pay-as-you-grow policy, so there is no need to take one license for the entire datacenter. You can start with small licenses and then grow, and pay, as you use more."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
9%
Educational Organization
8%
 

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)?
My use case for this solution is for protecting or backing up data to safeguard against hacking or for disaster recov...
What do you like most about Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)?
The product, a disk backup solution, improves our data application tasks. We used tape libraries with Dev drives in l...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)?
The price is also a disadvantage. Price is a disadvantage with the PowerProtect as it needs to be cheaper. The cheape...
What do you like most about HPE StoreOnce?
I think StoreOnce's deduplication technology is crucial for cost efficiency and faster recovery, especially for backu...
What needs improvement with HPE StoreOnce?
Veeam Backups provide a stronger capability. It is well-positioned on the radar, with a mature and stable solution. C...
What needs improvement with IBM Spectrum Protect?
It's adequate for my core banking, however, I am looking for another solution for all systems. It is not compatible w...
 

Also Known As

DataDomain, Dell EMC Data Domain, PowerProtect Data Domain
HP StoreOnce
IBM TSM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
 

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