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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) Primary Use Case

Faisal_Zia - PeerSpot reviewer
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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MA
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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reviewer1144389 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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GopalSetia - PeerSpot reviewer
Director- Pre Sales Enterprise 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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HS
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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Fahad_Siddiqui - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at HyperNym

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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ErmiasGirma - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Cloud Deployment 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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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SK
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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reviewer2222805 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Vijeesh Thayyil - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Consultant at Deep Ocean General Trading

The solution is mainly used for backups and archiving.

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Triet  Pham - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Muhammad Mughees - PeerSpot reviewer
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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RB
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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Nilesh Nn - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Whitney Gray - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Farhan SadikAkil - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at GBPL

The data domain is a backup solution.

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Dhaval Pancholi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Sales at Microhard IT Solutions Pvt Ltd

We use the solution for backup, data protection, and data encryption.

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CP
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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AnjaneyaVara Prasad - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Technical Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

This solution is deployed on-premises.

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reviewer2390028 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees

We use the solution for documented backup.

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Mohamed -Elsayed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Maintenance Planning Engineer at Egyptian Steel

We use this solution to store and replicate data for back-up purposes.

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Domenico-Vizzoca - PeerSpot reviewer
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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MK
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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OI
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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ManuelIglesias - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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AD
Regional Key Account Manager at ACT

The primary use case of our customers is to do backup for their data.

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AS
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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Kenneth Etsula - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Dataposit Ltd

We are using Dell PowerProtect DD as a location for a backup repository.

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reviewer1998144 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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reviewer1777704 - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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reviewer1619904 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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AC
Professional Services - Data Protection Consultant at S&T Romania

We primarily use the solution for storage.

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SK
CTO at New Horizon Computers

We primarily use the solution for backup purposes.

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MT
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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MD
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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BR
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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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Dhaval Pancholi - PeerSpot reviewer
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 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Top-IT Solutions Ltd

We use Dell PowerProtect DD for different scenarios like database storage and backups.

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MF
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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reviewer1473288 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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reviewer1426962 - PeerSpot reviewer
consultant at a security firm with 201-500 employees

My primary use case is as the backup storage feed application.

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reviewer1473288 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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it_user1200867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Production Department at a government with 10,001+ employees

We use it for backup.

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it_user900057 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Kenneth Etsula - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Dataposit Ltd

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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AA
Senior Consultant at global brands

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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AH
Senior Data Center Admin at Paltel

The primary use is as a company backup.

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SystemCoc204 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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AM
Senior Sales Engineer at a tech services company

The primary use of the solution is inline deduplication.

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Storemgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Used as a backup target with NetBackup 8.0.

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SV
Technical Specialist at Pouyan Pardazesh Tehran Co

We primarily use the solution as a backup.

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reviewer1805982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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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reviewer1805982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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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Buyer's Guide
Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)
July 2025
Learn what your peers think about Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: July 2025.
861,390 professionals have used our research since 2012.