DD Boost Reviews

Name: DD Boost
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (33 reviews)

4.4 out of 5

33 reviews
93% willing to recommend

293 followers

What is DD Boost?

DD Boost software delivers an advanced level of integration with backup applications and data base utilities, enhancing performance and ease of use. Dell also provides a DD Boost File System Plug-In (BoostFS) with DD Boost for even greater application support, which enables all the benefits of DD Boost for applications that use NFS for data protection. Rather than sending all data to the system for deduplication processes, DD Boost enables the backup server or application client to send only unique data segments across the network to the system.

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DD Boost is the #4 ranked solution in top Deduplication Software. PeerSpot users give DD Boost an average rating of 8.8 out of 10. DD Boost is most commonly compared to Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain): DD Boost vs Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). DD Boost is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Featured reviews

A. AhadAlam

Head Of Systems Group at NCCPL

The initial setup can be simple or complex based on multiple conditions. I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. The deployment of the solution in our organization was quite easy. The entire deployment process took about a week in our company. We faced a challenge during deployment in our organization; when the NetWorker was installed, multiple ports opened up for backup and restoration to communicate with clients. Our company would recommend that the NetWorker restrict the solution to two or three standalone ports. NetWorker has around ten thousand ports that are required to communicate with clients. Presently, we are reducing the aforementioned ports on the NetWorker by keeping the active ports open and monitoring daily.

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Sanjeevan Sivapaleswararajah

Manager, Network Ict at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In our current production environment, we are using Data Domain for both primary and NDR, and we are planning to replace the VINs. Our focus has mainly been on improving data transfer rates, particularly for decision-making and data transfer efficiency Operationally, we are satisfied as there…

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AdnanJavaid

Senior System Engineer at Multilynx

We only have one full backup currently stored in DD Boost. If we had multiple copies of the full backup, deduplication and compression (DPU) would be more beneficial. However, in our environment, where space is a concern and retention is limited, DPU compression doesn't offer significant advantages. In other environments, with longer retention periods (up to 30 days) and multiple full backups, DPU compression can achieve a 7:1 or even 10:1 ratio. There were no major challenges when integrating DD Boost with other products in the customer's environment. In our customer's environment, they were using EMC Networker as the backup tool software. We didn't see any integration challenges with their database host, other hosts, operating systems, or even the internet router. We didn't experience any problems with the hosts, including their Oracle database, SQL database, and okay, everything worked fine with Boost.

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DD Boost mindshare

As of July 2024, the mindshare of DD Boost in the Deduplication Software category stands at 4.1%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Jun 15, 2024

Valuable Features

"The product is necessary in order to communicate with both Data Domain and NetWorker devices."
"DD Boost can stack backups on the servers, optimizing backup storage utilization. All resources are utilized efficiently. Without such optimization, backup processes can lead to bottlenecks or excessive resource utilization, impacting server services."
"The time taken for backup is very fast."

Room for Improvement

"By default, the password of DD Boost expires in thirty days"
"Some competitors may not allow the use of DD Boost with their data management systems. The application process is not determined at the source site but on the estimation side."
"If you are using it with Recovery Manager, there are certain limitations. If those limitations are addressed, productivity will improve."

Pricing

"The pricing is definitely competitive and unmatchable. The price of Data Domain is very attractive compared to HPE, StoreOnce, or its current alternative, which is probably more expensive."
"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The price of the product is on a higher scale, meaning not everybody can afford it."
"You don't have to pay additional costs."

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