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DD Boost vs ExaGrid EX Series comparison

Dell Technologies and ExaGrid are both solutions in the Deduplication Software category. Dell Technologies is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.6, while ExaGrid is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.0. Dell Technologies holds a 4.1% mindshare in DS, compared to ExaGrid’s 6.4% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of ExaGrid users who would recommend it.
DD Boost
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91% willing to recommend
ExaGrid EX Series
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100% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 5, 2024

ExaGrid EX Series and DD Boost are competing in the data backup and recovery market. ExaGrid EX Series has an edge in pricing and support, while DD Boost stands out for its advanced features.

Features: ExaGrid EX Series offers fast backup speed, scalability, and efficient data deduplication, promoting cost savings and storage efficiency. DD Boost is recognized for enhanced integration capabilities and optimal backup performance, suitable for environments requiring sophisticated data management.

Room for Improvement: ExaGrid EX Series can enhance its feature set to match the high-end capabilities of competing solutions. Further advancements in integration could strengthen its market position. Simplifying long-term storage management might also be beneficial. DD Boost may benefit from improving initial cost efficiency, enhancing user interface for simplicity, and optimizing long-term data management to reduce complexities in extensive infrastructures.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ExaGrid EX Series is lauded for its straightforward setup and responsive customer service, facilitating easier transitions for IT teams. DD Boost's deployment features a robust process with dedicated support channels, appealing to enterprises needing comprehensive assistance.

Pricing and ROI: ExaGrid EX Series offers a competitive initial setup cost and minimizes ongoing expenses through effective data deduplication, providing a strong ROI. DD Boost, with its potentially higher entry cost, justifies this with advanced features that provide substantial long-term value.

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Categories and Ranking

DD Boost
Ranking in Deduplication Software
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ExaGrid EX Series
Ranking in Deduplication Software
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Deduplication Software category, the mindshare of DD Boost is 4.1%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ExaGrid EX Series is 6.4%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Deduplication Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
DD Boost4.1%
ExaGrid EX Series6.4%
Other89.5%
Deduplication Software
 

Featured Reviews

Brijesh Pillai - PeerSpot reviewer
Brijesh Pillai
Regional Manager - Enterprise Sales at Noventiq
Provides robust data protection solutions with room for better pricing options
Dell is a strategic partnership for us as resellers. We rarely focus on PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM). Every data protection solution vendor offers encryption as part of their solution. This is one of the default standards required for data protection. Regarding Network Efficient Replication on disaster recovery operations, it is definitely effective. Customers get native capability out of the box to do a restoration. Typically, customers look at a secondary copy in the cloud, but primary will be on-premise. While we have a partnership with AWS, we do not buy from the AWS Marketplace. I would recommend this product to medium enterprises to large enterprises. On a scale of 1-10, I rate DD Boost a 7.
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Daniel Gillber
Information Technology advisor at Lotus Consulting
Improvements in data storage efficiency and customer support experience
ExaGrid EX Series and Veeam was easy to set up, and it worked seamlessly. It was very simple to use. We rarely needed to touch the ExaGrid boxes, except for upgrades. With the systems engineer from ExaGrid, and with our common knowledge of backup software, it was very easy to use. The performance was good, the interface was good, and the GUI was good. When ExaGrid introduced the air gapped feature, it was almost complete. Almost every hardware vendor has an air gapped feature, but they were significantly ahead of other vendors. The air gapped and immutable storage are very nice features. The price compared to other competitors was good with better features. It is not a cheap product, but compared to the features, it is a good competitor.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The backup aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"Overall, scalability is great."
"I like the tool set, it's easy to work on and the support is brilliant."
"It's stable and reliable."
"Operationally, we are satisfied as there have been no issues or closures to report."
"This product's unique protocol make it superior to competing products and alternate solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the support for plug-ins."
"Dell's support helped restore the hardware."
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"The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."
"The solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam."
"ExaGrid EX Series and Veeam was easy to set up, and it worked seamlessly."
"The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the process is fast, ensuring smooth backup and recovery operations at high speeds. However, the process becomes slower for long-term backups moved to the retention zone due to fragmentation. So, if the data is older than a few days, the speed may be limited, especially for non-deduplicated data in the landing zone."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and data deduplication. It's extremely easy to use and does a very good job of data deduplication and compression."
"One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated."
"It is a solid and a quite simple solution, which is a good combination. The customers like the simplicity and its scale-out capacity. They like the support pricing, and even the extension capacity pricing, a fixed price, which the executive is offering in Czech market."
 

Cons

"DD Boost could improve the solution by offering additional customizations that build upon existing features such as deduplication ratios. The primary objective of the solution is to create backups of existing data and push that data out to clients' backup systems. If they can make the process faster and introduce more enhancements, it would greatly benefit the backup environment."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly for the end-users."
"The setup and handover process was not effective, preventing us from leveraging the software's available benefits."
"This solution should cover more platforms, and there should be more product coverage."
"The setup and handover process was not effective, preventing us from leveraging the software's available benefits."
"One area that requires improvement is the time needed for cleanup processes."
"The solution doesn't scale. If you hit your capacity, you need to buy a new device."
"There are limitations when using the VTL protocol in extreme cases."
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"The product's documentation can be made more precise."
"The one place where we are sometimes losing the opportunity with ExaGrid is that a few customers still require a fiber channel connectivity, which is not always possible."
"I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers."
"The solution could improve by switching to a flash-type solution rather than the spinning drives that they currently use. However, we have not had any failure with the spinning drives. The flash-type drives are more up-to-date and are something that is in their roadmap."
"The tool reduces storage footprint. However, clients are now storing data for longer durations with increasing requirements to retain backups for longer periods, particularly as a defense against ransomware attacks. As a result, the retention zone with duplicated data is experiencing more demand, leading to space constraints. This necessitates using higher-end, more expensive models to address the issue."
"When speaking about a scale-out, you want to have better equipment. You cannot just add a disc to the foreign equipment. You have to buy another one and put it together, like parallel."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You don't have to pay additional costs."
"The solution is very good because it is easy to use and it speeds up the backup and lowers the requirement for the storage rate. It is capable of encryption, compression, and deduplication and it is fast for sending all of the data over the network because it sends only the change blocks from the client to the DD server."
"The hardware platform is cost intense, so for small and mid-range, this product is not the best choice."
"My company must pay approximately 10,000 USD annually, making it an expensive product."
"DD Boost's price is good for its features."
"Dell EMC Data Domain Boost is an expensive product. There are extra costs for support because every year, you have to renew your SLA for support, and the cost is always increasing."
"The pricing is definitely competitive and unmatchable. The price of Data Domain is very attractive compared to HPE, StoreOnce, or its current alternative, which is probably more expensive."
"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The price of the product is on a higher scale, meaning not everybody can afford it."
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"I rate ExaGrid EX Series' pricing eight to nine out of ten."
"The current agreement has 21 terabytes of free space and it cost approximately $35,000."
"In comparison to other solutions, it's affordable. They're all too expensive."
"The previous solutions I have used both included the Backup Software and the Appliance making it hard to compare to this solution. However, overall the solution is reasonably priced for the features you receive. ExaGrid EX Series is priced better than HP, Dell, and possibly Commvault which I have compared in the past."
"My company had to pay 1,60,000 EUR for the system we use, and the payment was made just once for the system and five years of full support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
9%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DD Boost?
The time taken for backup is very fast.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DD Boost?
It's complicated for me because when we buy, we buy a package, so I don't have the DD price. Every Data Domain we buy comes with Boost technology, with the DDoS feature. I don't know the price of D...
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What needs improvement with DD Boost?
Disadvantages could be in terms of price points because price points are a hindrance at times when we position it with customers. The customer sees it as a complete proposal and will not break it d...
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What do you like most about ExaGrid EX Series?
The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ExaGrid EX Series?
I rate ExaGrid EX Series' pricing eight to nine out of ten.
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What needs improvement with ExaGrid EX Series?
Everything can always be better, so I would give it a nine.
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Comparisons

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Compared 14% of the time
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Compared 9% of the time
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Compared 6% of the time
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Compared 39% of the time
HPE StoreOnce vs ExaGrid EX Series Logo
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Compared 19% of the time
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Compared 16% of the time
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Compared 8% of the time
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Compared 3% of the time
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Overview

DD Boost software delivers an advanced level of integration with backup applications and data base utilities, enhancing performance and ease of use. Dell also provides a DD Boost File System Plug-In (BoostFS) with DD Boost for even greater application support, which enables all the benefits of DD Boost for applications that use NFS for data protection. Rather than sending all data to the system for deduplication processes, DD Boost enables the backup server or application client to send only unique data segments across the network to the system.

Dell Technologies
The ExaGrid EX Series hyper-converged secondary storage for backup product line consists of eight appliance models. Each appliance is sized for a full backup and for long-term retention. Any ExaGrid appliance can be mixed and matched in the same scale-out system with any other size or age appliance, allowing customers to buy what they need as they need it. This pay-as-you-grow model allows up to 25 appliances in a single scale-out system.
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Sample Customers

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NCI Group, North Attleborough Public School, North Kingstown School Department, NPS Pharmaceuticals, Prudential Douglas Elliman, Rathbone Brothers PLC, Rio Hondo College, Ruder Finn, Sarah Lawrence College
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