The PowerProtect DP series appliances is the integrated appliance solution from the Dell data protection appliances portfolio.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) | 0.7% |
| Veeam Data Platform | 11.4% |
| Commvault Cloud | 6.0% |
| Other | 81.9% |
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| Category | Backup and Recovery | Oct 3, 2025 | Download |
| Product | Reviews, tips, and advice from real users | Oct 3, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs Veeam Data Platform | Oct 3, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs HPE Zerto Software | Oct 3, 2025 | Download |
| Comparison | Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs Commvault Cloud | Oct 3, 2025 | Download |
| Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veeam Data Platform | 4.3 | 11.4% | 94% | 429 interviewsAdd to research |
| Commvault Cloud | 4.3 | 6.0% | 95% | 111 interviewsAdd to research |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 5 |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 46 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 33 |
| Large Enterprise | 147 |
PowerProtect DP series appliance: Simple, efficient and agile data protection
The DP series is an all-in-one backup appliance that reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions and vendor relationships. The DP series simplifies deployment and management—while delivering powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, mid-size and enterprise organizations at a low cost-to-protect.
It is an integrated solution that offers complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration — plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery (DR) and long-term retention (LTR) to the cloud — all in a single appliance.
With the DP series, customers reduce their time-to-protect and become more agile with a solution that’s fast, protected more efficiently, can be recovered quickly and is reliable.
Simple to deploy, scale and manage
The DP series enables organizations to protect a broad ecosystem of applications quickly with a single system management console, consolidating workload protection, and eliminating infrastructure or data sprawl. The easy-to-use System Manager simplifies backups and automates daily tasks, including monitoring, management, reporting, analytics and search. The DP series delivers all-in-one data protection: protection storage and software, search and advanced monitoring and analytics, combined with cloud extensibility. It offers integration with VMware, SQL and Oracle management tools so that admins can use familiar UIs.
Powerful cloud, performance and efficiency
The DP series can scale to fit the needs of enterprises with the ability to protect up to 195 PB (logical) of data to the public, private or hybrid clouds with Cloud Tier, with no additional hardware.7 Plus, native Cloud DR with end-to-end orchestration allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from on-premises DP series environments to the public cloud with AWS, Azure, or VMware Cloud on AWS —3 clicks to failover and 2 clicks to failback.
The DP series provides support for modern applications like MongoDB and MySQL and is optimized for VMware. It provides fast, single-step recovery of individual files, dynamic policies for VMs as well as complete VMware images, which can be instantly accessed and migrated live from the DP series appliance back to the production environment (using vMotion) while still running, further simplifying and optimizing VM recovery. Plus, instantly access up to 64 VMs with up to 60,000 IOPS to meet the strictest SLAs.
Data protection search simplifies file-level-recovery (FLR) activities with an easy-to-use search interface. The DP series is also built on the industry-proven Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA), for encryption, fault detection, and healing.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) was previously known as Dell EMC IDPA, Dell IDPA, EMC IDPA.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Systems Engineer at NTT DATA | 4.0 | I find Dell PowerProtect DP reliable and easy to use, with strong data protection features and scalability. It's competitively priced, stable, and simple to deploy, though it could benefit from more third-party software integrations. |
| Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C. | 4.0 | I recommend Dell PowerProtect DP for high-end enterprises seeking reliable data protection and management. It offers easy-to-use backup, recovery, and management tools, with effective AI and multi-cloud integration. Improvements are needed in AI-powered cyber resilience and Linux support. |
| Network and systems administrator at AQUITANIS | 4.0 | Dell PowerProtect DP integrates well with our new infrastructure, offering strong performance suitable for a small enterprise. However, it is somewhat complex to manage. Previously, I preferred Veeam for its ease of use, but we chose IDPA for Dell-based infrastructure consistency. |
| Unit head at Galaxy Office Automation Pvt. Ltd. | 4.5 | We use Dell PowerProtect DP for efficient backup and recovery, valuing its speed and deduplication features. While network connectivity could improve, we achieved ROI despite the cost. After considering other architectures, this solution proved to be the best fit. |
| Sr. Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | I deploy Dell PowerProtect DP for customers needing an integrated data protection and backup solution. It consolidates multiple tools into a centralized system. However, it lacks integration with DP Central, complicating the monitoring of multiple systems. |
| Head of Sales at Microhard IT Solutions Pvt Ltd | 4.0 | I use Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) for client and server data backup in a manufacturing company. Its valuable features include networker and continuous data protection, though the implementation process is complex. We considered Commvault before opting for this reliable premium product. |
| Director of Information Technology at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees | 2.5 | No summary available |
| General Director at miromix unitedMiroMIX United | 4.5 | I use Dell PowerProtect DP for data protection in government settings and value its stability and strong performance. The bundled software aids in tender processes, though the initial setup is somewhat complex. |
