Dell Avamar and Microsoft DPM compete in the data backup and recovery space. Dell Avamar appears to have the upper hand due to its efficient client-side deduplication and superior integration with VMware for swift backups.
Features: Dell Avamar provides client-side deduplication, strong VMware integration, and efficient compression with Data Domain. It operates well with minimal bandwidth and supports VM and SQL backups. Microsoft DPM is notable for its recovery capabilities and is well integrated with Microsoft's product ecosystem, making it preferable for Microsoft environments.
Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar could enhance its reporting features and simplify backup processes across cloud and virtual environments. An intuitive interface would help reduce the need for extensive training. Microsoft DPM needs stronger compatibility with non-Microsoft solutions, improved user community support, and better integration features to simplify its setup.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Dell Avamar and Microsoft DPM are typically deployed on-premises. Dell Avamar is noted for ease of installation in complex setups but faces technical support variability. Microsoft DPM benefits from Microsoft ecosystem integration but struggles with support, especially in understanding specific user concerns.
Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar's pricing can be perceived as high, limiting its appeal to smaller businesses. However, medium to large enterprises see good ROI from its features. Microsoft DPM offers cost-effectiveness, particularly for organizations already using Microsoft solutions, and presents an attractive fixed pricing for medium enterprises with moderate ROI through integration benefits.
Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes
If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.
Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) is an enterprise backup system that can be used to back up data from a source location to a target secondary location. Microsoft DPM allows you to back up application data from Microsoft servers and workloads, and file data from servers and client computers. You can create full backups, incremental backups, differential backups, and bare-metal backups to completely restore a system. Microsoft DPM can store backup data to disks for short-term storage, to Azure Cloud for both for short-term and long-term storage off-premises, and to tapes for long-term storage, which can then be stored offsite. Backed up files are indexed, which allows you to easily search your recovered data.
Microsoft DPM contributes to your business continuity and disaster recovery strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data, ensuring resources are available and recoverable during planned and unplanned outages. When outages occur and source data is unavailable, you can use DPM to easily restore data to the original source or to an alternate location.
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Reviews from Real Users
Microsoft DPM stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust and flexible backup capabilities and its being easy to manage with one central dashboard.
William M., the head of ICT infrastructure & security at a tech services company, notes, "The automated procedure is quite good for us, as it is able to capture all of the information that we require. The compatibility is very good. We have an IBM AS/400 machine in our office that we're using, and we're able to back it up fine. This is the same for other systems, as well. I think that overall, it is really adaptable, compatible, and scalable."
Mohammed I., a managing director at Adalites, notes, "I would definitely recommend data protection DPM. It has an application backup, a file backup, a system backup and a hypervisor. It works flawlessly, never a problem."
Rodney C. a system analyst at a financial services firm, writes, "The most valuable feature is that DPM has an index so individual files can be searched. This is our primary tool for recovering deleted files or folders. Once we implement a System Center Operations Manager, all of our DPM servers can then be seen on one dashboard."
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