We performed a comparison between DD Boost and Quest QoreStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution can scale."
"We can retain the data for a pretty long time."
"DD Boost's best features are deduplication and compression."
"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."
"There are no limitations when it comes to the scalability feature of the product. You can scale up or scale down however much you want."
"The initial setup of DD Boost involves a simple procedure."
"The most valuable feature is the support for plug-ins."
"The functionality is very good. DD Boost and DD entry replication are used in almost all backup concepts. Those are the most used features."
"QoreStor has helped us to reduce our backup storage requirements on-premises. We've been using the same devices for quite a while, and so it lets us keep using them as opposed to having to rip out all that hardware and create a new on-prem solution. The advantage here is even if we had to retire the hardware tomorrow, the QoreStor part doesn't change. We just have to have additional hardware and put the solution back on whatever hardware we pick and it'll do the same thing."
"The features we use for the data deduplication are nice because we're able to back up a much larger amount of data, yet it doesn't necessarily take up that much data on the devices."
"Data deduplication and replication would be the top two features. The encryption and cloud tiering are also attractive for the future."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature. It saves us a lot of space. When we back up 100 terabytes of data, after dedupe, it only uses maybe five to six terabytes for the disk space in QoreStor."
"The dedupe and compression are pretty extreme. On disk, we're getting dedupe rates of up to 65 percent of data and compression of 34 percent. When you go to the cloud, it's more like 76 percent for dedupe and almost 50 percent for compression."
"It integrates with various backup software solutions, which makes it compatible with existing backup workflows and processes."
"It would be good if the product could be useful not just for general backup. Its pricing is also expensive, and it can be a difficult application, particularly when you need to write a script for anything you would like to do."
"Integration could be better."
"If you are using it with Recovery Manager, there are certain limitations. If those limitations are addressed, productivity will improve."
"DD Boost's technical support could be better."
"When my company faced a problem with the product, it took some time to get proper support."
"The solution could improve by adding more flexibility for the customers here in Thailand. Some of the small capacity models of the solution are not needed by our customers. There should be a more flexible version of the solution."
"DD Boost needs to improve its interface. It should be easier to use."
"The multi-tier functionality can be improved, but it is quite good. They could improve replication and perhaps support additional sharing network protocols. I would also like to see better implementation of NFS Version 3, but it is already implemented and quite usable as it is."
"The installation could use improvement. The initial installation was a little touchy and it's not really user-installable. You have to have a connection to support to install."
"The setup of the software is definitely not the easiest thing. I worked a lot with Quest engineers, especially in the early days when we were first testing it and trying it out. I actually had some of the developers working with us at one point because they were going through these point releases, and I was having trouble getting it to work in this S3-compatible situation. We got it all working eventually, but setup is definitely not the easiest thing in the world."
"The ransomware protection of QoreStor could use improvement."
"They need to increase their maximum capacity. Other than that, they're doing a pretty good job."
"In terms of improvement, we would like to have an Air Gap feature to prevent a virus from attaching to something. So that when we don't do a backup, we want the QoreStor to stay offline. It would be a nice feature to have."
"The management interface is in need of improvement. The graphical user interface (GUI) for the web management tools appears clunky, and not super intuitive."
DD Boost is ranked 4th in Deduplication Software with 32 reviews while Quest QoreStor is ranked 13th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews. DD Boost is rated 8.6, while Quest QoreStor is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of DD Boost writes "Enhancing backup and recovery operations and accelerating backup and restore processes while seamlessly integrating with various backup software applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest QoreStor writes "Multi-thread backups and snapshotting have eliminated the scheduling issues we had to deal with around backups". DD Boost is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, whereas Quest QoreStor is most compared with HPE StoreOnce and ExaGrid EX Series. See our DD Boost vs. Quest QoreStor report.
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