Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Primary Use Case
Branko Cirovic
Storage Engineer at Comtrade Group
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain's main use case is backup, integrating with Veeam, NetWorker, and other backup software. Almost all customers utilize Dell PowerProtect Data Domain as a deduplication and backup solution.
Almost all of our customers indeed use Dell PowerProtect Data Domain. When I mention all users, I refer specifically to enterprise users, including Telco and government entities, who use Dell PowerProtect Data Domain. We also have some small OceanProtect Huawei deduplication devices, but they are not the same storage as Dell PowerProtect Data Domain.
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Michael Lopez
Sr Systems Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I have close to 20 years of experience, combining my seven years with FalconStor and my 11 years with Cox. Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is a backup solution we have used from day one. When I worked for Cox, I was hired from DealerTrack in 2014, and Cox Enterprises, which owns many different brands, acquired DealerTrack. Cox had NetBackup running and Dell PowerProtect Data Domain. They decided to retire NetBackup and use Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, making it the enterprise backup solution for all AutoTrader, Kelly Blue Book, and other properties.
We back up over 20,000 servers in the backup window successfully and on a continuous basis. This was based primarily on a virtual environment, specifically VMware.
We migrated from Avamar to PPDM, and I feel Dell can improve the migration process. I do not know how many customers they have, but we faced challenges migrating from Avamar to PPDM.
Network-wise, implementing the solution and expanding on our DealerTrack presented several challenges. When we migrated DealerTrack from New Jersey data centers to Atlanta, we were set up in a network bubble. Once we received the green light to expand to other business units, adding more network capabilities proved challenging.
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Sergio Omar Ruiz Paz
Specialist Senior N2 at Entelgy
I work as an implementer of Dell PowerProtect Data Domain systems, storage, and backup systems, serving as an administrator and support specialist. I have 15 years of experience implementing Data Domain systems with Dell, HP, and HPA, where all systems handle backup functions. My experience with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain spans 10 years. I serve as an implementer of this software and integrate it with storage and customer client systems. I administrate this console for all operations in Peru. I have implemented this product in Peru, the USA, and Argentina, working both on-site and remotely. I implement, support, and administer Dell PowerProtect Data Domain.
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Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
March 2026
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Pranav Telang
Lead Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use Dell PowerProtect Data Domain for backup storage and disaster recovery purposes. We support multiple customers with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, so it is not specific to any industry. We work exclusively with enterprise and mid-enterprise organizations.
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Kuntal Malik
lead at Boston Scientific
My use cases for it involve primarily backing up the on-premises servers, and besides that, we also provision CIFS shares and NFS exports on Dell PowerProtect Data Domain.
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Mohamed Ibrahem
ICT Assistant GM at Phpco
I use Dell PowerProtect Data Domain as a second backup repository. I implemented Dell PowerProtect Data Domain in the initial setup and some configuration, which is maybe the standard way to implement another backup for the virtual infrastructure.
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Mayowa Afeez Olayiwola
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is currently used to protect the environment backup. The major use case in this banking environment is that most of our data is expected to be 100% protected. The use case at the moment is the protection of the data being backed up to the CRS, and we have a special interest in the CyberSense part of it because we understand that if an environment has any issue, the first thing is protecting the destination file and data itself, and CyberSense is able to meet that requirement.
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Erik Lugtenberg
Consultant at Visolity B.V.
Our main use case for Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is as a backup target.
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A. AhadAlam
Head Of Systems Group at NCCPL
Our main use case for Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is to optimize backup timing and scheduling.
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reviewer2776245
Vice President - Information Technology Systems Engineering at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is predominantly used for the backup of data and recovery with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain.
Our daily backups are run through PPDM, our Power Data Protect Manager, using Dell PowerProtect Data Domain. Previously, it used to be Avamar, and it's backed up and retained for 30 days, and we also have long-term retention. In some cases, it's one year to multiple years. All of the data is basically stored in Dell PowerProtect Data Domain.
The amount of data which we have is substantial with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain. Relatively, we do have a daily change rate. However, if we go with any other traditional method of backups, it's occupying quite a significant amount of space on the backup storage. Dell PowerProtect Data Domain actually helps us to minimize that, and a large amount of data can be compressed into a single Dell PowerProtect Data Domain rather than having multiple backup storage systems.
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Faisal_Zia
Team Lead of Senior Directors at Net-International
The typical use case for Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is for backup purposes; it is disk-based backup, which provides fast backup capabilities.
Additionally, data can be replicated from site one to site two, specifically backup data from backup device to backup device, not storage to storage.
Furthermore, deduplication and compression are enabled on the backup data, resulting in reduced bandwidth consumption. These are the three main functionalities.
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Mohamed Elfakharany
Data Protection Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have been using Dell PowerProtect Data Domain for two years. One year has been for operational data domain specifically, and one year has been for implementation.
This first installation included racking and stacking, cabling, network configuration, license, and active file system setup.
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Sufyan Khan
Head of Sales and Operations at New Horizon Computers
Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is an integrated backup appliance-based solution, and our installed base in Pakistan is substantial. We possess high expertise in both pre-sales and post-sales activities for this.
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Mohamed Abdel Salam
Senior Sells at Enterprise Sigma Technology
My use case for this solution is for protecting or backing up data to safeguard against hacking or for disaster recovery. I utilize it in more projects on the governmental side, the non-governmental side, and in the banking sector since they usually need to back up their data.
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Sr System Expert at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I use Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) for archiving and storage for the server. It is also used for daily backup purposes.
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Houssem Sandli
Technical manager at Advanced Computer Technology (ACT)
The primary use case for Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is for deduplication and archiving, including achieving efficient archiving. We sometimes use Veeam backup with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and other times with Dell PowerProtect to extend retention periods of our backup jobs.
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GopalSetia
Pre Sales Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We use Data Domain for our backups, including long-term retention. This eliminates the need for two separate solutions for online and cold backups. Data Domain effectively meets both requirements, providing online backup copies and long-term archival storage.
I work in a presales role, having transitioned from a position where I was involved in day-to-day operations for over ten years. As part of a presales team, we focus on commercial aspects and meeting technical availability requirements.
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Fahad_Siddiqui
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at jj
Customers primarily use the solution for data backup. Dell PowerProtect DD is a state-of-the-art backup device. Although we can use it as a storage device with VMware Association or NFS server, most users use it as a backup solution.
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SushilKumar4
Solution architect at Aeris
The tool's use cases primarily revolve around structured data. We can manage backups with features like compression, deduplication, and in-line deduplication. For instance, even with just a 10 KB backup space for structured data, we can achieve data reduction ratios up to 1:10. Only 1 TB of storage is needed to accommodate the equivalent of 10 TB of backups.
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ErmiasGirma
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc
The data admin works within the network and Avamar. I am collaborating with the data admin on a target-based solution using their backup server. We are using this solution with Avamar to meet Target's needs.
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Shrikant Teggi
Sr. Area Technical Manager at tata elxsi
Currently, we are using only NetWorker, and that too only for a file system backup. We have also started taking backup of the Oracle data. The Oracle database plugin has been installed, the license has been bought, and we are protecting a hot backup of the Oracle database.
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Muhammad Mughees
Business Development Manager -Distributor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have proposed Dell PowerProtect DD in a couple of sectors, including defense, government, finance, and banks. Dell PowerProtect DD faces strong competition with appliances from Veritas, NetVault, and Commvault.
Dell PowerProtect DD provides better appliances than the aforementioned competitors, has better features and the license is provided without any investments. Veritas offers solution by charging on a per-terabyte licensing model. Dell PowerProtect DD is used to retain or manage backups or sites for later use.
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CanBolat
Solution architect at GlassHouse
We use Dell PowerProtect DD for all financial cloud and banking systems to back up critical workloads. It serves as a Data Domain product to back up their environment. Additionally, we offer a two-minute backup, which refers to the capability of the Data Domain. This requires using data protection tools, including Networker and PowerProtect Data Manager. Networker serves as traditional backup routers.
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Vijeesh Thayyil
Storage Consultant at Deep Ocean General Trading
The solution is mainly used for backups and archiving.
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EHR Technical Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) for various projects, which is basically associated with the current project work. We procured it for an EHR activity.
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Rick Brandenstein
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use the solution as a backup and to restore applications.
It's business continuance versus disaster recovery. Business continuance is you lose some data at your data site or maybe get data corruption, due to malware, or somebody deletes something by mistake, and you've got to restore it. You go to your backup to do that, and that's business continuance. Disaster recovery is if your whole site's gone down and you need to run at another site. For business continuance, you need a product like Data Domain Power Protect.
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Triet Pham
Information Technology Technician at Lac Viet Computing
The main use case is for backup and mobile. My customers usually have a couple of authorizations and server and database. They are mainly using PowerProtect DD for backup purposes.
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Dhaval Pancholi
Head of Sales at Microhard IT Solutions Pvt Ltd
We use the solution for backup, data protection, and data encryption.
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AnjaneyaVara Prasad
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The main use case for PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is that it serves as a backup at our company. We use it to protect production data as a secondary backup. Additionally, the solution can be used for long-term storage of data that is not required for six months, one year, or longer. This data can be moved from the solution to a cloud or peer-to-peer network. So, as a long-term archiving solution, we can use it. We can use this solution even for the data moved to cloud archiving solutions. For instance, in AWS, there is something known as an S3 bucket, and if we want to move data from Data Domain to an AWS S3 bucket, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud, or Cloud Block Storage, we can move the data.
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Darshan Kolambkar
Sr Technical Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
This solution is deployed on-premises.
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Nilesh Nn
Sr IT Consultant at Midis Group
Dell PowerProtect DD is mainly being used for the backup repository, such as storing backup data.
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ManuelIglesias
Solutions Architect at Open group
I'm an architect, so I only use Data Domain to design solutions for clients right now. I'm not using it so much as for management or administration. My clients all like it, and It's an effective storage system.
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Vedat Gunes
BI & Analytics Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am using Dell PowerProtect DD for data extraction for extract, transform, and load(ETL) processes. This is a tool that receives data from operational platforms, or systems, such as in my factory in insurance, underwriting, claim management or health provisioning, et cetera. It receives the data from the source systems and not from the data warehouse platform by doing transformation or by loading the data or after loading the data.
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Mina_Magdy
Senior Infrastructure Solutions Architect at Benya systems
We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers. We do pre-sales activity, configuration, migration, integration, and more.
We have a Data Domain on-premises in our business, and we also provide it to our customers. The entire suite contains lots of backup software.
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Sr. System Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
We use the solution for documented backup.
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Farhan SadikAkil
Solutions Architect at GBPL
The data domain is a backup solution.
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Carlos Pineda Sánchez
Infrastructure and Helpdesk Leader for Mexico, Chile and Colombia at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We use the product to store data backups of instruments.
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Whitney Gray
Storage Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use PowerProtect to back up physical servers, virtual servers, file systems, and databases.
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KennethEtsula
Presales Manager at Spartec
We are using Dell PowerProtect DD as a location for a backup repository.
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Mohamed -Elsayed
Senior Maintenance Planning Engineer at Egyptian Steel
We use this solution to store and replicate data for back-up purposes.
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Pre-Sales Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
We're a system integrator, and we're providing services for a number of customers. It's not like we are using these products ourselves.
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Domenico-Vizzoca
Delivery and Presales Manager at Harpaitalia italia
Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is the customer's requested solution. I did not suggest this solution to the customer.
I use Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) for disaster recovery, and for the backup of disaster recovery for a large society for training in Italy
The backup on the secondary Data Domain and then backup on the cloud.
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Muad Khalfallh
General Manager at Datacoast
I have an IT company and have tested it in order to see if I could resell it to clients.
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OlegIvanov
General Director at miromix unitedMiroMIX United
We primarily use the solution for large backups. This is a piece of hardware that we can place software on.
It's used widely in some of the largest banks in our country - including foreign banks. They use Data Domain in petabytes.
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Storage Analyst III at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Dell EMC PowerProtect DD for backing up a target.
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Nick Hamilton
Enterprise IT Architect at ESTI Consulting Services
We use Dell EMC PowerProtect DD for deduplication, data protection, and data recovery. We use many different versions, including the newest versions.
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Abbas Dagher
Regional Key Account Manager at ACT
The primary use case of our customers is to do backup for their data.
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Asim Sinha
Senior SAN Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use model number 6800. The operating system is 7.4.
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Adrian Constantinescu
Professional Services - Data Protection Consultant at S&T Romania
We primarily use the solution for storage.
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Chris Childerhose
Enterprise Architect at ThinkON
The Data Domain serves as our primary backup device used with Veeam. It is used for all service backups and restores.
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Head of Sales at Microhard IT Solutions Pvt Ltd
We use this solution for various workloads for our customers. It is a backup solution for our banking customers' applications, farmer customers' farm assist applications, and manufacturing customers.
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MirziyodMirsaatov
CEO at Top-IT Solutions Ltd
We use Dell PowerProtect DD for different scenarios like database storage and backups.
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CanBolat
Solution architect at GlassHouse
It's useful in the enterprise and commercial segments, like the banking and hospital sectors. We aim to get Fortune 500 quotes to afford debt solutions.
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Mohamed Fahim
Logistics Supervisor at Fetchr
We use Data Domain to back up the SAP ERP system, and it worked very well.
We are moving to a public cloud.
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Pre-Sales and Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use it mostly combined with software, such as NetWorker, and the Data Domain works as a repository for the information.
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consultant at a security firm with 201-500 employees
My primary use case is as the backup storage feed application.
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Owner at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are just using it for backing up the workloads using Avamar. We are using its latest version.
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Pre-Sales and Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We as a company use this product to protect our information. We have Data Domain combined NetWorker for our own company, and we also install and provide services around those solutions to our customers.
In our company, Dell Data Domain is used to protect our servers (on-premises), where the most important servers for us are the File Server and the eMail server. The Dell Data Domain we have It´s combined with Dell NetWorker as the backup software. The Data Domain works as the repository of the information, taking advantage of the duplication and all the features that it has. We are getting about 30x as the deduplication ratio. It is managed by the software NetWorker, where all the backup policies reside. We have clients in all the servers directing information from the server to the Data Domain taking advantage of the software client direct feature. We make backups on a daily basis, as incremental backups, and over the weekend we have full backups. We have about 14 servers in our office. Mostly Windows and Linux.
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Head of IT Production Department at a government with 10,001+ employees
We use it for backup.
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Head of Sales and Operations at New Horizon Computers
We primarily use the solution for backup purposes.
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Michel Taung
System Engineer for Business Solution Department at PT. Mastersystem Infotama
We are a solution provider and we use the Dell EMC PowerProtect DD to provide service for our clients. It is used to provide backups for VMware environments.
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MohamedDakn
General Manager responsible for IT Infrastructure and Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We primarily used this product as a solution for backups.
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Jayson Martin
Head IT Data Storage at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use for this product is for backup purposes and compression.
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IT Coordinator at a insurance company with 1-10 employees
Primarily we use the solution as data storage and as a backup solution.
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Presales Manager at Spartec
We've primarily been using the solution as a backup. What we understand is that we can create it with Veeam where Veeam backs up the network into Data Domain.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use the on-prem deployment model of this solution and sometimes the public cloud. Our primary use case is for on-prem backup and for replication servers.
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Adams Rasheed
Information Technology Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using this solution with NetWorker. currently we are using it to back up our sap ERP. We have scheduled backup at intervals. We have two DDs, one Data Domain is on the Production Site while the second Data Domain is on the DR site. NetWorker backs up the SAP ERP to the Data Domain in the Production site and the backup is automatically cloned to the DR DataDomain.
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AsemHamamdi
Senior Data Center Admin at Paltel
The primary use is as a company backup.
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System Consultant at onyxes
Our customers have a lot of big data that they work with. The solution allows them to decrease the amount of data which can appear over the network and optimizes the bandwidth of the network itself.
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Abdelrahman Mohamed
Senior Sales Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The primary use of the solution is inline deduplication.
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Storemgr67
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Used as a backup target with NetBackup 8.0.
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Shahab Vahdatian
Technical Specialist at Pouyan Pardazesh Tehran Co
We primarily use the solution as a backup.
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Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
March 2026
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