Dell Technologies Questions

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Currently using Avamar/Data Domain for backups. Looking for an Archive solution to accommodate long term retention requirements.

Any recommendations regarding archive solutions to look at?

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Archive verses backup

Currently using Avamar/Data Domain for backups. Looking for an Archive solution to accommodate long term retention requirements.

Any recommendations regarding archive solutions to look at?

Works

Can anyone share their real-life deduplication ratios using Data Domain?

I know there are a number of variables but EMC is quoting us 6:1, we are seeing 7:1 in a POC but a colleague tells me he is getting 2:1. This is in Data Domain. Thanks in advance! Eric

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it_user156498It depends of what you are backing up, how, when and for how long You will see… more »

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Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Tegile vs. XtremIO?

What is the main difference between Tegile and Xtremio?

IT Manager

What are the upgrade challenges, risks and testing needed that I should be aware of?

I’m IT Manager managing Vblock 300GX at Primary and DR Site with RCM 2.5.9. I’m planning for RCM upgrade to 4.0.11 through VCE professional Services.Since I have SRA, RPA cluster and SRM 5.0 for Data protection/replication. I would like to know about RCM Upgrade challenges, Risks and Testin...

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Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

What are the main pros and cons of the various Endpoint Encryption solutions on the market?

Do you have experience with Microsoft, Dell and Symantec in particular?

Harold Johnson

Infrastructure Expert at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're evaluating vBlock. What do we need to take into account regarding scalability and overall cost?

Our company is currently evaluating vBlock as a potential hardware solution for our SAP environment. We currently have this environment hosted with a company in North Carolina and our Go-live on ECC and BW is in September of this year. We have our environment currently running on Windows and SQL...

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Works at a university

Netapp vs Dell EqualLogic vs others. Which is the best value plus cost effective support?

Netapp vs Dell Equallogic vs others:

Which storage vendor provides the best SAN value for money plus cost effective support?

BI Expert at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

What's the best alternative solution to VCE Vblock?

Please share your experiences with the community!