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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    NetApp SnapMirror

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ANetApp offers SnapMirror, a data replication option.N/A

    PowerProtect DD Series

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APowerProtect 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
    Pricing
    Microsoft System CenterNetApp SnapMirrorPowerProtect DD Series
    Editions & Modules
    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft System CenterNetApp SnapMirrorPowerProtect DD Series
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
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    Features
    Microsoft System CenterNetApp SnapMirrorPowerProtect DD Series
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Microsoft System Center and NetApp SnapMirror and PowerProtect DD Series
    Feature
    Microsoft System Center
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    Ratings
    NetApp SnapMirror
    -
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    PowerProtect DD Series
    9.4
    10 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings00 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings00 Ratings9.57 Ratings
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    Microsoft System CenterNetApp SnapMirrorPowerProtect DD Series
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    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
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    Qlik Replicate
    Score10 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft System CenterNetApp SnapMirrorPowerProtect DD Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Microsoft System CenterNetApp SnapMirrorPowerProtect DD Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
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    NetApp
    NetApp SnapMirror is a no-brainer when it comes to retaining an offsite backup for disaster recovery purposes. The backbone of the product is the Snapshot technology built into NetApp technology. In my experience, the Snapshot/SnapMirror software has been flawless and very dependable. The only piece that I can see adding in the future is potentially connecting SnapMirror to the cloud as an additional backup destination.
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    Dell Technologies
    We have huge data coming in from different sources and also from multiple organizations in our Data centres. This data had multiple copies of the same data and was huge in size therefore, we wanted to have a solution in place which can help us with a good amount of deduplication at the deepest possible level to make sure that our ecosystem does not have multiple copies of the same data and is also efficient at the same time. Having said this, we wanted this solution to be secure and reliable since it had to be exposed to a huge critical set of data in the market. To add, backup and restoration was something that we were also keen on evaluating so that once we have efficient data within our system, the time it takes to backup and restoration also reduces. And all this was justified by this solution when we signed up with them. From the pricing perspective and the implementation side, the solution needs improvement to make it more efficient and user-friendly.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
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    NetApp
    • Seeding is only required initially
    • Replication updates are very swift
    • Traffic can be reduced with network compression
    • It is well integrated with NetApp's SnapCenter backup tool
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    Dell Technologies
    • 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.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
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    NetApp
    • Pro: Stability in storage we have had these in place for 3 years and besides a failed disk, there have been no issues.
    • Pro: Replication options are pretty good
    • Pro: Storage Provisioning as well as a wealth of features that are an additional add-on for competitors
    • Cons: Support is lacking in customer service and being proactive of system alerts and errors
    • Cons: the Learning curve. Easy to make mistakes using the user interface as it does lack functionality.
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    Dell Technologies
    • It can be expensive to implement, especially when used in conjunction with other applications/hardware such as Avamar.
    • The TCO can be high, especially when it needs its storage expanded.
    • Recovery speeds can be slow (compared to other solutions) for when recovery is time sensitive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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    NetApp
    Very well versed and a good product to deal with downtime to recover from the failure is pretty good. Also, NetApp's engagement on Incident calls is very professional and humble. I would give a 100% rating to this product as I have been working on this for the past 5 years. It is stable, fast and highly reliable
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    Dell Technologies
    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.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
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    NetApp
    It just works 99% of the time. Even if there's a network outage, jobs just pick up after the outage is over. The only reason it's not a 10 is the weakness of the GUI interface for configuration. For me, all configuration has to be done at the command line.
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    Dell Technologies
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
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    NetApp
    NetApp support has always been great. With the NetApp Auto-support system/web portal, the visibility into your NetApp storage is incredible. There have been times when I've been contacted by them for an issue that I haven't even discovered yet. For example, I received a call 20 minutes after a drive failed in our filer. I hadn't checked my email at that time and therefore didn't see the alert.
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    Dell Technologies
    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.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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    NetApp
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    Dell Technologies
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
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    NetApp
    We chose NetApp's SnapMirror solution primarily because it was already integrated and licensed on our storage platforms. This allowed us to have a very fast implementation time and really allowed us to quickly close the learning gap of our administrators. Not only is NetApp SnapMirror easy to use, but it is also really easy to set up. IBM's product seemed quite difficult to set up and it would have taken our team much more time (which we don't have) to learn that product than NetApp's SnapMirror.
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    Dell Technologies
    We selected Data Domain due to its integration with our backup software. The Data Domain works well for what we need it to do.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
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    NetApp
    • NetApp SnapMirror has allowed us to recover critical data in a timely manner on multiple occasions.
    • We have been able to decrease our RPO objectives.
    • We have been able to decrease our DR costs as well.
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    Dell Technologies
    • We were able to immediately discontinue our remote tape storage and TBU maintenance.
    • Reduced backup footprint in the data center.
    • It is costly to expand so buy it with a purpose.
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