Brief overview of Data Domain
March 29, 2019
Brief overview of Data Domain
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Data Domain
Data Domain is used across the whole organization as part of our Data Protection solution. It is used in conjunction with Avamar as back-end storage.
- The deduplication is fantastic. We are currently seeing total compression factors in the mid to upper 50s.
- The platform is very reliable and stable.
- It backs up a wide variety of enterprise apps (e.g. legacy applications, UNIX, iSeries, open systems etc) or your primary storage.
- 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.
- 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).