We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The full backup is a great feature. Restoration is also good and very quick."
"Anybody could drive the GUI."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The backup feature for this product is good. It is easy to set up and easy to scale."
"When it was required that data had to be restored for our customer, it was accomplished successfully and this has kept our end users satisfied."
"It is the best umbrella, serving the best applications."
"If it's set up the right way, it's a stable product."
"The backup software has been much faster since we've deployed the solution."
"Dell PowerProtect DD is a stable solution."
"When utilizing Dell PowerProtect DD for backup systems, Data Domain offers fast performance with low latency, providing high throughput for quicker backups compared to other vendors."
"I like Data Domain as a protocol for data backup."
"The most valuable feature is the inline data deduplication."
"Data Domain is an excellent repository that's compatible with a lot of different solutions. Even Veeam Backup recommends sending backup to Data Domain. Space optimization is great. Currently, it guarantees 50-to-1 compression of the application in the same device. In all these years, I never had a client who was unsatisfied with Data Domain. It is a solid appliance with VMware integration, instant access to restore and search, and analytics."
"This is a superior and reliable backup system that can handle large capacities with little management."
"The product, a disk backup solution, improves our data application tasks. We used tape libraries with Dev drives in legacy architectures, resulting in slow backups compared to modern drives like NVMe and SSDs. By transitioning to NVMe and SSDs, backups have become much faster. The tool's backup restoration is faster compared to other tools."
"This solution has a feature called Domain Boost, which allows for source deduplication and compression."
"The initial setup is complex."
"When you're working with VMware, you need to use vProxy machines. You have to install the vProxy for every host in the VMware environment."
"We are looking forward to better stability in future versions."
"Currently, the NetWorker server only supports the Windows server bare-metal recovery, so an improvement would be built-in support for Linux and UNIX BMR."
"The product should provide integration with AWS."
"The user interface is hard to use, it should be simplified. There are a lot of web-based management interfaces which they should consider."
"The process of upgrading versions should be improved because as it is now, you have to completely uninstall the old version first, and then install the new version."
"There should be more vendors incorporated into the solution."
"When you use Data Domain, you have to have at least 20% free space so it can work properly. Sometimes we struggle with that, because we wanted to use all the free space, but then Data Domain becomes really slow. I understand that 20% is needed to process all the data, and doing the duplication and compression and all that, but it would be a big improvement if they did not require that 20%, because it is just too much to have available."
"Dell PowerProtect DD does not have integration with the cloud and virtualization software."
"The tool's DD Boost is expensive."
"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
"Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is expensive. Also, it has a sort of a big physical footprint that data domains have, and that's part of the problem."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The usage of this solution is a bit difficult to develop processes, and it takes a long time to market permits."
"The product lacks some security features that would make it more stand-alone and integrated."
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Dell NetWorker is ranked 13th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 66 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Supports business continuity process but needs improvement in pricing". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, ExaGrid EX Series, Veeam Backup & Replication and NetApp FAS Series.
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