We performed a comparison between ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce 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 most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and data deduplication. It's extremely easy to use and does a very good job of data deduplication and compression."
"The solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam."
"The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the process is fast, ensuring smooth backup and recovery operations at high speeds. However, the process becomes slower for long-term backups moved to the retention zone due to fragmentation. So, if the data is older than a few days, the speed may be limited, especially for non-deduplicated data in the landing zone."
"It is a solid and a quite simple solution, which is a good combination. The customers like the simplicity and its scale-out capacity. They like the support pricing, and even the extension capacity pricing, a fixed price, which the executive is offering in Czech market."
"One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated."
"The product's most valuable feature is stability."
"It is very easy to implement."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"The speed and deduplication ratio are two of the most valuable features of the solution."
"The initial setup is one of the most user-friendly B2B user solutions. It's good, it's easy. Deployment usually takes less than one day. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance."
"Quick recovery."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression capabilities."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"When speaking about a scale-out, you want to have better equipment. You cannot just add a disc to the foreign equipment. You have to buy another one and put it together, like parallel."
"The product's documentation can be made more precise."
"I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers."
"The tool reduces storage footprint. However, clients are now storing data for longer durations with increasing requirements to retain backups for longer periods, particularly as a defense against ransomware attacks. As a result, the retention zone with duplicated data is experiencing more demand, leading to space constraints. This necessitates using higher-end, more expensive models to address the issue."
"The solution could improve by switching to a flash-type solution rather than the spinning drives that they currently use. However, we have not had any failure with the spinning drives. The flash-type drives are more up-to-date and are something that is in their roadmap."
"The one place where we are sometimes losing the opportunity with ExaGrid is that a few customers still require a fiber channel connectivity, which is not always possible."
"They could provide more options for storage capacity."
"I would like to see better integration with Veeam software."
"The latency is a bit high."
"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 product could be improved with better support for data protection."
"The user interface of HPE StoreOnce is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The platform's price could be lower."
"Its customer service could be faster."
ExaGrid EX Series is ranked 7th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 102 reviews. ExaGrid EX Series is rated 9.0, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ExaGrid EX Series writes "Integrates well, reasonably priced, and provides high level support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". ExaGrid EX Series is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Quantum DXi Series, NetApp FAS Series and DD Boost, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, DD Boost, Veeam Backup & Replication and ExaGrid EX. See our ExaGrid EX Series vs. HPE StoreOnce report.
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