

Arcserve UDP and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) are two robust data protection solutions tailored for enterprise environments. Users report higher satisfaction with Arcserve UDP due to its pricing and customer support, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is favored for its advanced features and performance.
Features: Arcserve UDP offers comprehensive backup capabilities, virtual machine protection, cloud integration, and hybrid data center support. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) provides automated workflows, high-speed recovery, and extensive cybersecurity features. Dell's focus on automation and security is a distinguishing factor.
Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP needs a more intuitive management console and faster technical support response times. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires better third-party integration and more flexible licensing options. Arcserve users mainly want user experience improvements, while Dell users look for better ecosystem interoperability.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP is generally easier to deploy with straightforward installation and comprehensive documentation. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) may require more initial effort but offers high-quality customer service once implemented. Arcserve is noted for quicker setup, while Dell provides more in-depth support post-deployment.
Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP is recognized for its cost-effectiveness, offering a favorable balance between pricing and ROI. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), although more expensive, delivers higher value through its advanced features and reliability. Users find Arcserve more budget-friendly, whereas Dell's superior performance justifies its higher price point.
I have local support; we have a team that has expertise in the solution, so we usually resolve situations in-house without sending questions to Arcserve.
Challenges exist in certain Linux-based cases.
On the one or two occasions where we needed to engage with Dell support, they've been most helpful.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) support from Dell EMC is consistent.
The product offers flexibility for scalability, making it user-friendly and adaptable to different performance requirements.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is a stable solution because it's a mature product.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience.
You cannot integrate with any other third-party solution or your Data Domain since it is very tightly coupled and has limited licenses with respect to capacity that are integrated directly with Avamar.
One area of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) that can be improved is probably more integrations with third-party software, particularly third-party backup software.
Regarding the setup cost for Arcserve UDP, it is significantly important, but the price is similar to all our options where clients need to have backup on-premises and replication in the cloud.
Pricing is competitive with other software vendors.
The pricing of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is competitive compared to its peers in the market.
I have utilized Arcserve UDP's data deduplication feature, and the data deduplication feature helps my storage efficiency significantly.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a scalable architecture, offering flexibility, so you can always scale the capacity to meet any increased demands.
AI integration enhances backup operations by analyzing data and ensuring malware protection.
It is easy for rebooting and upgrading since everything is managed from a single pane through DPA, where you can upgrade everything including your backup solution and backup storage in a one-touch interface.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Arcserve UDP | 1.1% |
| Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) | 0.7% |
| Other | 98.2% |

| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 24 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 10 |
| Large Enterprise | 9 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 6 |
The PowerProtect DP series appliances is the integrated appliance solution from the Dell data protection appliances portfolio.
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.
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