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DD Boost vs NetApp Cloud Backup comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 5, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
3.4
DD Boost offers significant cost savings and daily hassle-free backups, enhancing overall return on investment by 15-20%.
Sentiment score
8.5
Users report substantial cost savings, efficiency, ease of use, and reliable performance with NetApp Cloud Backup, enhancing operational continuity.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
4.5
DD Boost technical support is generally satisfactory, with knowledgeable staff, but response times and language barriers can impact service.
Sentiment score
6.6
NetApp Cloud Backup is praised for its efficient customer service, knowledgeable support staff, and detailed documentation, despite occasional delays.
They efficiently resolve issues raised under the service arrangement.
Senior Systems Administrator at NMS
The support is technically very good.
Architect Engineer, IT INFRASTRUCTURES Project Manager at Vilavi
Dell has a warehouse of spare parts.
Pre-Sale Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
DD Boost's scalability varies by model and architecture, affecting enterprises based on licenses, environments, and data needs.
Sentiment score
7.9
NetApp Cloud Backup is highly scalable, performs well in cloud environments, and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Azure for disaster recovery.
There are also multiple products built on DD Boost as part of cyber resilience or cyber recovery solutions.
Head Of IT Unix & Storage at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
You need to be clear about your backup requirements to ensure it meets your needs.
Inginer de system IT Senior at ENGIE
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
DD Boost is praised for stability, reliability, high performance ratings, and is recommended for its comprehensive features and dependability.
Sentiment score
8.7
Users commend NetApp Cloud Backup for its stability, efficient large workload handling, strong integration, and minimal downtime during data restoration.
I never had problems with the stability of DD Boost.
Architect Engineer, IT INFRASTRUCTURES Project Manager at Vilavi
In the two years I’ve worked with it, we only encountered one hard drive failure, which was easy to replace.
Inginer de system IT Senior at ENGIE
Apart from one incident where the appliance failed to start due to a hardware issue, we have not had stability problems.
Senior Systems Administrator at NMS
 

Room For Improvement

DD Boost improvements include an API, interface updates, platform expansion, cost solutions, enhanced deduplication, and integrated ransomware protection.
NetApp Cloud Backup users need better integration, KPI handling, ITSM support, and ease of use, with cost-effective comparisons to competitors.
If there could be CLI tools to check on DD Boost's operations, such as how much data is currently being transferred or how much has already been written to Data Domain, along with stats on how much DD Boost has saved during backup jobs, it would be very valuable to have.
Head Of IT Unix & Storage at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
Cleanup processes can slow down backup and restoration speeds during that period.
Inginer de system IT Senior at ENGIE
You need to have experts who can install it.
Regional Manager - Enterprise Sales at Noventiq
 

Setup Cost

DD Boost pricing is high but competitive, with discounts for long-term use and extra costs for support and SLAs.
Enterprise buyers appreciate NetApp Cloud Backup's cost-effective pricing, though virtual NetApp hosting is pricier than general cloud hosting.
However, the recurring support costs are significant, and the price has risen after the Dell and VMware split.
Senior Systems Administrator at NMS
The hardware, license, and all components are presented together collectively as customers see it as a complete proposal and will not break it down between license cost or hardware cost.
Regional Manager - Enterprise Sales at Noventiq
Pricing is competitive.
Pre-Sale Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

DD Boost is valued for speed, efficiency, security, and resource optimization, excelling in storage and ransomware protection.
NetApp Cloud Backup is praised for its simplicity, seamless integration, efficiency, data protection, scalability, user-friendliness, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
I have a very good deduplication rate with DD Boost. Currently, the deduplication ratio is 1 to 32, which is very good even though I am writing many versions of the backup that is actually compressed.
Head Of IT Unix & Storage at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
From a technology standpoint, DD Boost offers some of the cutting-edge solutions around data protection.
Regional Manager - Enterprise Sales at Noventiq
The most valuable features of DD Boost include its speed, deduplication, and space savings.
Inginer de system IT Senior at ENGIE
 

Categories and Ranking

DD Boost
Ranking in Deduplication Software
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetApp Cloud Backup
Ranking in Deduplication Software
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (31st), Disk Based Backup Systems (5th), Cloud Backup (34th), Cloud Storage Gateways (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Deduplication Software category, the mindshare of DD Boost is 4.1%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Backup is 1.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Deduplication Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
DD Boost4.1%
NetApp Cloud Backup1.9%
Other94.0%
Deduplication Software
 

Featured Reviews

Brijesh Pillai - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
MS
Solutions Architect at SC PROSERVICECORP SRL
Offers protection and does scanning of the data in the storage
NetApp has a nasty way of dealing with the license for the product's on-premises virtual NetApp appliance that you need in your whole architecture, and it is not directly linked to NetApp Cloud Backup. It is not a feature that I want to change in NetApp Cloud Backup because the cloud backup service is architectured in a way that makes it available to users, so it looks pretty good to me. When you go to the other side, you can see what you want to have on-premises for the main side in order to have backup in the cloud via NetApp Cloud Backup. With the on-premises part, you need to have either a physical NetApp or a virtual NetApp. You only have two options for primary storage from the network. In the physical cases, it is pretty straightforward as you have pricing and something like a grid with your NetApp. The sales representatives explain how much it will cost you to have some physical NetApp storage based on performance, types, and so on. The support contracts are for three or five years. When it comes to the virtual NetApp, you can run on top of an existing VMware tool or a recent cluster; it gets nasty because they do not let you change the licensed server. Once you deploy a virtual NetApp with a licensed server that you have on-premises, you migrate off from that, but NetApp does not let you change the licensed server, which should be really simple.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Retailer
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise12
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DD Boost?
The time taken for backup is very fast.
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...
What needs improvement with DD Boost?
DD Boost can improve by providing some sort of API to track the progress or the number of remaining data transfers. For instance, in other Dell products such as storage, SRDF replication protocol i...
What's the 3-2-1 data protection that NetApp Cloud Backup offers?
Hi, the 3-2-1 data protection from this product is related to a backup strategy with the same name. I'm assuming you don't know about it so I'll tell you in a few words. In its essence, this backup...
Is NetApp Cloud Backup secure for backup?
I've just started using NetApp Cloud Backup but my initial reason behind choosing it in the first place is that they advertise their high-security approach. So basically, they give you ransomware p...
Is NetApp Cloud Backup expensive in your opinion?
It depends on how much exactly you count as expensive. For me, NetApp Cloud Backup isn't too expensive. I say that based on the services it provides and on the way it provides them. I think it's im...
 

Overview

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