PowerProtect DD Series vs. Pure Storage FlashBlade

PowerProtect DD Series

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
PowerProtect DD Series	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	PowerProtect DD (a next-generation appliance replacing Dell EMC Data Domain) is a suite of hardware appliances used for data protection, backup, storage and deduplication. PowerProtect appliance offerings are cloud-enabled and vary by organization size, capable of supporting small business and enterprises. PowerProtect appliances are separated into two categories: entry-level to midrange, and enterprise. Entry-Level to Midrange Backup Appliances PowerProtect…	N/A
Pure Storage FlashBlade	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Pure Storage offers FlashBlade, a scale-out file and object storage – architected to consolidate complex data silos (like backup appliances and data lakes) while accelerating tomorrow's discoveries and insights.	N/A

Pricing

PowerProtect DD Series

Pure Storage FlashBlade

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PowerProtect DD Series	Pure Storage FlashBlade
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	PowerProtect DD Series	Pure Storage FlashBlade
Considered Both Products	PowerProtect DD Series Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series Was easier to aggregate company files in PPDD than using Dropbox, for the way we organize our files for our techs and customers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We already had Avamar in place, and since we have a good ecosystem of Dell Solution suite and wanted to evaluate PowerProtect DD also from that perspective, hence we thought of going ahead with it. We knew the limitations with Avamar and PowerProtect DD were right there from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series I didn't pick the PowerProtect systems here, and until about 2 years ago was planning on moving away from them, leaning towards Veeam. Dell EMC changed my mind with software updates. The original interfaces were cludgy at best, not intuitive, and slow. The modern interface … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We have started moving away from our Veeam + Data Domain backup environment and are moving into the Rubrik backup system. This is due to the need to quickly live to mount our database backups and to be able to improve our automation of those activities. Also, the native … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Wiseley Senior Director of IT (CIO) Chose PowerProtect DD Series Dell's product is much better at large data sets and more reliable. Incentivized Helpful? Sam Majam Systems Administrator Chose PowerProtect DD Series Newer solutions maybe faster at backup and restores, but due to Data Domain's longevity in the backup arena and the wide array of platforms it can protect, we are happy with Data Domain for the kind of applications and systems we currently have in use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We looked at new tape libraries, mostly. At the time, Data Domain was pretty much the only game in town besides Exagrid, and I had previous experience with DD at a former job. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series We selected Data Domain due to its integration with our backup software. The Data Domain works well for what we need it to do. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series I have used NetBackup, CommVault, Tivoli, and Actifio in my previous environments. With Data Domain I am not constantly babysitting my backup to make sure it is not choking and dying and we are not bound by the same channel lane path constraints most backup software and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose PowerProtect DD Series Prior to purchasing Data Domain we were a large user of HP VLS9000 technology. In using VLS9000 we were configured to use virtual tape. When we moved to Data Domain we greatly simplified our configuration by changing from virtual tape to NAS based target backups. This change in … Incentivized Helpful?	Pure Storage FlashBlade Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade provided a flexible and secure solution which these alternatives couldn't quite match. The simple file management system and rapid performance made this solution come out on top for us. The only real benefit over Pure Storage FlashBlade that these other … Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Cooper RPA Developer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade is in our experience far faster, performance-wise, compared to its close competitors. However, if you factor in any packages you currently have with IBM or AWS for example, you can get more value for money for your data requirements. However, if … Incentivized Helpful? Chirag Deol Chief Marketing Officer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade is very fast. [It was] simplify with the easy install, easy upgrades, automatic performance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The NetApp All Flash FAS provided similar performance but had a larger footprint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade has certainly very good high speeds when compared to its competition. Its performance is at par with the leading competitive storage solutions and in few cases even exceeds the expectations. Pure Storage FlashBlade's support of talented engineers is very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade It delivers the following, see below, and this is why it was selected as the platform of choice. Supports CIFS, NFS, and object Speed and performance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We did not evaluate any other products, the FlashBlade has nothing similar in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Edward Hammond Principal Solutions Architect Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure Storage FlashBlade provides higher performance than the competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The NetApp a800 we tested was 14% faster than Pure FlashBlade with NFS workloads. However, NetApp lacked ease of administration and performing simple tasks such as creating multiple NFS volumes required scripting from the command line. Our flashblade contained 15 baldes and our … Incentivized Helpful? Julie Ulrich Systems Engineer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Flasharray C is the true second-tier storage we were looking for with all the features we need. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Prior to FlashBlade, we used Avamar for our enterprise backup solution. While Avamar is a solid product, the FlashBlade provides better and more predictable stable performance. Since owning FlashBlade, we have never had any hardware issues or a drop in performance over time. It … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade I've used many different file storage systems in the past from various established firms. They all have their place, but in the end, I wanted a vendor and solution that was high performing, stable, cost-efficient, easy to use and manage with a Sales, Account, and Support team … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We have Oracle ZFS Appliances and the cost of Flashblade was equivalent to one shelf of SSDs in cost. We shopped Isilon and Oracle Solutions, but FlashBlade had a definite cost/performance advantage. Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Chitwood Sr. Systems Administrator Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The main difference between them and these mentioned is pure performance. There is no comparing backup and restoration times with competitors. We are talking thrusters vs warp engines here. Data compress and dedupe was for a time when storage came at a premium. Data rehydration … Incentivized Helpful? CS Chris Stotler Manager Platform and Storage Engineering Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We did not evaluate any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade The NetApp All Flash FAS provided similar performance but had a larger footprint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade I haven't used others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade FlashBlade is high capacity and much higher performance than other disk based NAZ servers. Incentivized Helpful? JC Jeremy Calcamuggio Senior Systems Engineer Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Of all the storage arrays I've used in the last 20+ years, Pure Flashblade and Flasharray are by far the simplest and easiest to configure. By miles and miles, to be frank. Additionally, performing an upgrade to software or firmware on non-Pure storage platforms in the past … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure is both more expensive and less configurable than the excellent HNAS. However, the HNAS is now dependent upon Hitachi storage. The Flashblade is a self-contained unit, which helps reduce cross-platform lock-in. It's not mandatory to have Pure block storage to use the … Incentivized Helpful? Todd Crouse IT Hardware Engineer/Storage Architect - Senior Staff Member Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Pure is easiest to install and administer making it a perfect fit for our EDA scratch environment. Pure lacks mixed mode support which forces Qualcomm to use NetApp or Isilon for any SMB environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We did not evaluate other options before purchasing. My personal history is mostly around personal NAS and old platter drive arrays. This thing is light years beyond. Not fair to compare older arrays versus FlashBlade. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Cannella Enterprise Cloud Architect Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade Performace knocked it out of the park. Our only issue at the time was that ECS wasn't supported with Replication. Incentivized Helpful? DT David Thornton, CISSP Security Engineering Manager Chose Pure Storage FlashBlade We considered all of the major manufacturers of storage when we were evaluating our choice of a product to replace our older storage. We considered HP, EMC, DELL, and Netapp-- all of which the team has used at various times. Interestingly enough, initially no one had experience … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

PowerProtect DD Series

Pure Storage FlashBlade

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	PowerProtect DD Series 9.4 Ratings 10% above category average	Pure Storage FlashBlade - Ratings
Universal recovery	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Instant recovery	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Recovery verification	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business application protection	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Snapshots	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Flexible deployment	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management dashboard	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Platform support	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Retention options	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Encryption	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	PowerProtect DD Series	Pure Storage FlashBlade
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Medium-sized Companies	Bacula Enterprise Score 9.2 out of 10	Azure Blob Storage Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Bacula Enterprise Score 9.2 out of 10	Azure Blob Storage Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	PowerProtect DD Series	Pure Storage FlashBlade
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	PowerProtect DD Series	Pure Storage FlashBlade
Likelihood to Recommend	When used as a backup target PowerProtect DD models offer incredible density and can efficiently replicate to another cloud-based or offsite unit. Most complaints about these have been addressed in software over the years and they are now a intuitive and easily managed backup system. You are not buying a Swiss army knife, you are getting a machine designed for a purpose, use it for that and you will not be disappointed. While they have the ability to serve as a CIFS server, they are not a filer and lack many of the features inherent to filers and are a poor substitute. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Pure Storage FlashBlade is best for companies that want their data stored and secure. The big storage capacity and cloud integration secure our data and ensure no third-party access without authorization. It provides us a secure data storage services for our objects. Fast and easy to install and easy to use. Incentivized Chirag Deol Chief Marketing Officer Read full review
Pros	It writes backups quickly. DDBoost add-on is very useful as well for improving backup speeds. DD is very efficient in its use of capacity. It dedupes and compresses very well. It spans to large capacity amounts. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Speed. We are seeing large transactions take very little time. Upgrades- In-place upgrades of both hardware and software are extremely easy. Ease of use- I have several engineers working on this and from setup to day to day operations it is extremely easy to maintain. Incentivized Michael Cannella Enterprise Cloud Architect Read full review
Cons	Depending on the model of Data Domain, there is a limit to the number of NFS/SMB threads that can run concurrently. When this limit is reached, the system is slow to respond to client requests. Data Domain support is very slow to turn out new features and bug fixes in their code. OS upgrades are very slow and disruptive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	When reporting out a user has exceeded there quote, it only references the UID. It would certainly be nice it calls out the UID name that is clearly present in the Dashboard. The ability to determine a snapshot total size would be helpful. Proactive reachout to discuss new versions and assist in planning the upgrade would be a key win. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	DD has performed flawlessly for almost 10 years as our backup/recovery storage with offsite replication. Given its track record and great support from EMC, we're unlikely to look elsewhere any time soon. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	No answers on this topic	Good API, multi-protocol support is great. Edward Hammond Principal Solutions Architect Read full review
Support Rating	Customer support has had some ups and downs here. We've had several issues with EMC support before and during the acquisition by Dell, but in the last 18 months support has been top notch. Quick and knowledgeable help is but a chat away, or they will call you back so you don't have to wait on hold. The team supporting us is responsive and is quick to assist with any request or issue. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Without exception, the contacts with support have been quick and extremely knowledgeable. I do not fear getting an underqualified engineer to assess or work on my arrays. In addition to this support structure, the sales engineers are top notch as well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We already had Avamar in place, and since we have a good ecosystem of Dell Solution suite and wanted to evaluate PowerProtect DD also from that perspective, hence we thought of going ahead with it. We knew the limitations with Avamar and PowerProtect DD were right there from that side of the business. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Pure Storage FlashBlade is in our experience far faster, performance-wise, compared to its close competitors. However, if you factor in any packages you currently have with IBM or AWS for example, you can get more value for money for your data requirements. However, if performance is a must, the increased cost is not an issue. Incentivized Alexander Cooper RPA Developer Read full review
Return on Investment	Positive: The high compression (58.0x) and data reduction (98.3%) have allowed us to optimize the storage for efficient usage. Negative: even after adding capacity, we are running out of space. Adding capacity adds to the overall TCO (e.g. lease cost). Incentivized Sam Majam Systems Administrator Read full review	Pure has greatly narrowed the performance gap between file storage and fiber channel block storage with FlashBlade. Exotic file systems and costly FC fabrics are no longer needed to run performant storage. Training is not required for a storage admin who has never touched a Pure array. Everything is where you would expect to find it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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