Microsoft DPM and Dell Data Protection Advisor compete in the data protection category. Dell Data Protection Advisor has an upper hand due to more comprehensive features that outweigh Microsoft DPM's competitive pricing.
Features: Microsoft DPM supports Windows Server, Exchange, and efficient data recovery. Dell Data Protection Advisor offers extensive data analytics, supports various platforms, and provides comprehensive data insights that enhance decision-making.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft DPM could enhance its platform support and expand its integration beyond Microsoft ecosystems. Improvement in monitoring features and broader analytical capabilities would be beneficial. Dell Data Protection Advisor might focus on simplifying its script usage, reducing setup complexity, and ensuring document clarity for comprehensive features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft DPM integrates seamlessly within Microsoft environments, ensuring easy deployment. Customer service is reliable but limited outside Microsoft ecosystems. Dell Data Protection Advisor supports complex environments globally and offers diverse customer service options, providing flexibility for varied IT setups.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM is cost-effective for businesses invested in Microsoft technologies, ensuring good ROI through lower setup costs. Dell Data Protection Advisor requires higher upfront investment but offers high long-term ROI by leveraging comprehensive features and reducing costs through enhanced data insights.
From a customer perspective, this is definitely a good solution financially as it protects their privacy, and currently customers are primarily focused on data privacy.
The technical support of Dell rates a perfect 10.
They provide professional services that are quite good and can meet your needs.
I have worked with Dell for more than 20 years now without encountering any issues.
Dell Data Protection Advisor is really stable because we use it for all customers, with over 300 customers using Dell Data Protection Advisor.
The product is very stable, rating between eight and nine out of ten.
There are no limitations regarding scalability.
Response time is the main problem that needs addressing.
The backup should have compression, deduplication, and DR replication.
Microsoft DPM could improve by adding S3 backup to S3 storage capabilities.
The license model is more economical than other vendor products.
The product is satisfactory regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
Microsoft licensing is complex, especially for enterprise or data center solutions.
The pricing of Microsoft solutions rates in the middle range at five out of ten.
Dell Data Protection Advisor can integrate with VMware, physical tape library, other backup solutions, Oracle solution, and CA Arcserve, making it a comprehensive solution.
The predictive analytics feature in Dell Data Protection Advisor provides predictions about backup size and capacity for future periods.
Microsoft DPM impacted my organization positively, and that was definitely possible.
The two-layer backup system is a particularly valuable feature in Microsoft DPM.
One of the most effective features of Microsoft DPM is its integration with the entire Microsoft ecosystem.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Dell Data Protection Advisor | 0.7% |
| Microsoft DPM | 0.9% |
| Other | 98.4% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 2 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 9 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
Effectively managing your data protection environment can be labor intensive and complex. It requires knowledge of backup applications, replication technologies, and the entire supporting infrastructure, yet it is critical in keeping your data secure.
With Dell Data Protection Advisor, you can automate and centralize the collection, monitoring and reporting of this data and get a single, comprehensive view of your environment, no matter where your data resides. This includes monitoring data on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
With clear visibility, you can gain actionable insight and effectively manage service levels while reducing costs and complexity. You can also collect and report on that data to help other stakeholders make the best decisions for your organization.
Data Protection Advisor is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.
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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