Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) Reviews

Name: Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)
Brand: Dell Technologies
Rating: 4 (30 reviews)

Vendor: Dell Technologies

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DD series enables your organization to protect, manage and recover data at scale. As the next generation of Dell Data Domain appliances, DD series sets the bar for efficient data management from edge to core to cloud and includes the ecosystem support and comprehensive data protection that customers have come to appreciate from Data Domain. The DD series offers a super-fast, secure, and an efficient solution that is built for multi-cloud data protection and to keep up with future demands. The DD series consists of the DD9900, DD9400, DD6900, DD6400, DD3300, and a software-defined option, PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE).

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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)

September 2023

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Mina_Magdy

Senior Infrastructure Solutions Architect at Benya Systems

Feb 15, 2022

This product has a lot of good features. It has the most powerful deduplication and compression for data backup. Data consumes a lot of storage capacity, but with Data Domain, it splits the data into many chunks. The data is managed with smart architecture and algorithms, saving between 80% and 90% from the target capacity. This means that for every tier of capacity, it may reflect 20 times that, which is remarkable. Data Domain has good data regulation features to prevent data corruption. Frequently with other products, users face data corruption. Data Domain always generates a hash from the target backup data and compares it with the hash of the data in production. This is done to make sure that the data is identical. If it detects a problem then it will rebuild the data on its own. This is why I recommend people make sure that they have a valid backup. In case of a crisis, it will restore and things will continue to function well. This solution has a feature called Domain Boost, which allows for source deduplication and compression. Backup data consumes a very heavy amount of traffic because you are transferring almost all of your production data across the network to the backup appliance. By using Domain Boost, it supports source deduplication and compression, so you are only transferring a very slight amount of data across the network. This will assure very rapid data backup, guaranteeing RPO and RTO.

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AnjaneyaVara Prasad

Application Delivery Manager at DXC Technology

Mar 9, 2023

What is our primary use case 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…

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ManuelIglesias

Solutions Architect at Open group

Jun 14, 2022

Data Domain lacks compatibility with fiber channels and tapes. We can't use it with a tape library. That's an issue in Latin America sometimes because a lot of clients still use tapes for budget reasons. Maybe they have a lot of archives. In North America and Europe, they do a lot of archiving, but they use the cloud more than we do. Sometimes we have to put together a Frankenstein where we connect another server to the tape library and send all the data there. I understand why integration with tapes isn't possible because they are designing these applications for the future. In the next decade, all the information will be sent through private and public clouds. It's a great way to send data. It can be software-defined, so you have lots of paths to send information, and it's it's not too slow, so I guess that's why they don't support tapes. When we have challenges with other providers, maybe an internal ID would help. Also,Dell's backup software comes in a lot of flavors, and there's a bundle that gives you all the functionality. You use this software to do this and another to do that. There isn't a single application that can do everything, and sometimes that makes some struggles.

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Pricing

"It is expensive, but the performance and deduplication cover for the cost."
"We are currently trying to renegotiate our license agreement."
"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."

Valuable Features

"Short backup window has made a difference in the way my organization functions."
"I think the performance is very good."
"As our organization functions, we have a total of 2500+ primary sites and 6300+ secondary sites. All of our entire backup systems are totally dependent on this product. EMC Data Domain is very reliable and there are no issues using it since 2015."

Room For Improvement

"DD Boost."
"We have some concerns about the licensing. We are currently trying to re-negotiate our license agreement."
"Dell EMC Data Domain needs to have better compatibility between NetWorker and the hardware. NetWorker is not as good as the other products which are currently on the market like Backup Exec."

Pricing

"It is expensive, but the performance and deduplication cover for the cost."
"We are currently trying to renegotiate our license agreement."
"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."

Valuable Features

"Short backup window has made a difference in the way my organization functions."
"I think the performance is very good."
"As our organization functions, we have a total of 2500+ primary sites and 6300+ secondary sites. All of our entire backup systems are totally dependent on this product. EMC Data Domain is very reliable and there are no issues using it since 2015."

Room For Improvement

"DD Boost."
"We have some concerns about the licensing. We are currently trying to re-negotiate our license agreement."
"Dell EMC Data Domain needs to have better compatibility between NetWorker and the hardware. NetWorker is not as good as the other products which are currently on the market like Backup Exec."

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Learn more about Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)

DD series empowers organizations to protect, manage and recover data at scale across their entire diverse ecosystems. DD series provides broad ecosystem support, efficiency, powerful data protection, cloud-enabled capabilities, and the cyber resiliency that our customers demand.

The DD Operating System (DDOS) is the brilliance that drives the DD series. DDOS contributes the agility, security, and reliability that pushes DD series to deliver high-speed, scalable, and standard-setting protection storage for backup, archive, and disaster recovery. DDOS integrates seamlessly with many existing infrastructures, permitting ease-of-use with leading backup and archiving applications, and provides superior performance in conjunction with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Data Protection Suite. When you decide to purchase a new DD series appliance you can easily consume DDOS as a subscription providing greater flexibility for deployment while minimizing your overall upfront costs.

DD series does a great job to minimize the threat of data loss and adds to the value of protected data while meeting ever-increasing demands of SLAs and increasing ROI. DDOS drives DD series to deliver up to 38% faster backups and up to 45% faster restores at significantly higher compression levels.

DD series supports high availability within the single rack. Additionally, DD series can greatly reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by minimizing downtime in the unlikely event of a hardware failure. DD series delivers amazing high-speed networking connectivity with support for 25GbE and 100GbE network adapters.

Benefits of Dell PowerProtect DD

Fast, secure, efficient data protection:

Provide 1.5PB usable capacity in a single rack
Allow for Up to 3PB capacity for long-term retention
Logical capacity is increased by up to 30% per TB when compared to the previous generation
Allow for instant access and instant restore of up to 64VMs and 100k IOPS
High-speed network connectivity – 10GbE, 25GbE and 100GbE
Seamless fast integration and outstanding performance with PowerProtect Data Manager and Data Protection Suite
Supports many of the leading enterprise backup and archive applications

Industry-leading multi-cloud protection:

Provides software-defined protection storage on-premises and in-cloud with PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE).
DDVE scales up to 256TB in-cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others).
Greatly improves in-cloud restore performance by as much as 10x when compared to previous versions.
Cloud Tier delivers super simple and value-added long-term retention to public, private, or hybrid clouds
Cost-efficient disaster recovery to the cloud

Operational simplicity:

Enhanced DD System Manager supports a complete chassis view
Significantly lower administrative costs
Grants a single point of management for all DD series by PowerProtect DD Management Center
Deploy Smart Scale for PowerProtect appliances directly from PowerProtect DD Management Center. Smart Scale helps drive down management complexities while increasing storage efficiencies.

Reviews from Real Users

One user, who is an enterprise IT architect at a tech service company, says that “Dell PowerProtect DD is highly stable and reliable. I have not had a time when the system did not work and in an emergency this is critical.” He rates the ROI it has brought his company a five out of five.

A pre-sales and technical manager at a tech services company says that "The features that I have found most valuable with Dell PowerProtect DD are its deduplication feature and its DD Boost protocol for fast transfer, which is amazing."

Chris C., lead infrastructure architect at ThinkON, relates that Dell PowerProtect DD “allows our organization to send more data to this device compared to others. It also allows us a fast recovery of files or Virtual Machines if needed being on-premise.”

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) was previously known as DataDomain, Dell EMC Data Domain, PowerProtect Data Domain.

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is the #1 ranked solution in top Deduplication Software and top Disk Based Backup Systems. PeerSpot users give Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most commonly compared to HPE StoreOnce: Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs HPE StoreOnce. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 16% of all views.