Microsoft DPM and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are data protection and backup solutions. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup holds an advantage due to its user-friendly interface and efficient VM backup capabilities.
Features: Microsoft DPM integrates well within the Microsoft ecosystem, provides continuous data protection, and offers granular recovery options. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup provides robust VM backup, instant boot options, and supports offsite backups for enhanced virtual machine protection.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft DPM could simplify its deployment process, improve user-friendliness outside the Microsoft ecosystem, and offer better compatibility with non-Microsoft products. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could benefit from more extensive reporting tools, increased scalability options, and enhanced support for mixed environments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft DPM's deployment is complex, requiring expert knowledge, but benefits from strong support within the Microsoft network. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers straightforward deployment and easily accessible customer support, contributing to higher user satisfaction.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM may involve higher initial costs due to infrastructure needs and dependency on Microsoft licenses, offering good ROI for businesses invested in Microsoft systems. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is usually more cost-effective, offering competitive pricing and good ROI through efficient VM management and reduced operational expenses.
Technical support is rated an eight out of ten.
They provide professional services that are quite good and can meet your needs.
The product is very stable, rating between eight and nine out of ten.
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V.
The backup locations and time to backup could also be improved.
The backup should have compression, deduplication, and DR replication.
Microsoft DPM could improve by adding S3 backup to S3 storage capabilities.
The pricing of the solution is considered affordable.
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
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.
It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent.
The ability to perform data compression updates enhances overall efficiency and effectiveness.
The two-layer backup system is a particularly valuable feature in Microsoft DPM.
Microsoft DPM impacted my organization positively, and that was definitely possible.
One of the most effective features of Microsoft DPM is its integration with the entire Microsoft ecosystem.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup | 0.7% |
| Microsoft DPM | 0.9% |
| Other | 98.4% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 22 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 4 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 9 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.
Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.
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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