[Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-16 Thread mitch808
PureDisk is def cheaper up front. However, dedupe rates and ingest performance are no where near what a DD box can do. Factor in also, if you did you "Older," servers, what is the 3,4, and 5 yr maintenance costs on that, for those servers? Not to mention the storage. IMO, while a higher up fro

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-16 Thread Lightner, Jeff
From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sesar, Steven L. Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12:13 PM To: Marelas, Peter; Ed Wilts; Fred M Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Pu

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-16 Thread Sesar, Steven L.
esday, February 15, 2011 5:40 PM To: Ed Wilts; Fred M Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain I don't buy that rational. How often do you think you are going to turn over an appliance? It is more likely you will add to the pool of appliances.

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-15 Thread Marelas, Peter
auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2011 3:46 AM To: Fred M Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Fred M <77fre...@gmail.com<mailto:77fre...@g

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-15 Thread Martin, Jonathan
orage. Just my $0.02. -Jonathan From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:46 AM To: Fred M Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-15 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Fred M <77fre...@gmail.com> wrote: > My employer is requesting I evaluate PureDisk and DataDomain for > de-duplication. > One of the selling advantages of the PureDisk appliances is that you only buy the de-dupe licenses once. All hardware eventually gets old. W

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-15 Thread William Brown
When I looked at these options a couple of years ago a key difference that mattered to us was that the PureDisk appliance was not 'owned' by any NetBackup domain. That meant several domains can use the same appliance, and so e.g. to replicate both ways between 2 DCs a pair of appliances was eno

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-14 Thread Jack . Forester
fores...@mylan.com Phone: +1.304.554.6039 Cell: +1.412.805.5313 From: "Pat McDonald" To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: "Pat McDonald" Date: 02/14/2011 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain Sent by:veritas-bu-boun...@mailm

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-14 Thread Pat McDonald
To: Fred M Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain We use both here and have been for over 4 years. We use Data Domain for all of our data center backups and Puredisk (the original appliance based version) for all

Re: [Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-10 Thread Mark Glazerman
89-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Fred M Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:14 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.ed

[Veritas-bu] PureDisk vs. DataDomain

2011-02-09 Thread Fred M
Hi all, My employer is requesting I evaluate PureDisk and DataDomain for de-duplication. While I can setup a demo of each and get the numbers, and ask the sales guys what makes them great and why their competitors aren't, I can't trust that is nothing more than sales drivel. So, I ask you expert u