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. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) solutions are usually costly. When it is virtualized or comes with additional licenses and additional hardware, the cost increases. The pricing is defined by what kind of performance you are looking for, so based on that, you have to decide what type of disk you need. Scalability is based on how much capacity you have or what slots are available. After that, you have to include the DAEs and capacities. Again, you have to purchase an additional license for Data Domain if you are increasing the capacity.
One area of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) that can be improved is probably more integrations with third-party software, particularly third-party backup software.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience. While technical support is generally not poor, there are challenges with expertise in Linux-based cases. Enhancements in these areas could improve the product.
Learn what your peers think about Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
The solution should be easier to use. Also, there is a lot of documentation available but it has a cost variable so the cost variable should be removed so that more people can take interest.
Dell has a product called DP Central, DPC for short. It is a single point from where you can monitor multiple systems. For example, Avamar and Data Domain are storage solutions that can be added explicitly into DPC and monitor everything from one place. But we cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs. If a customer has, let's say, ten to 15 IDPAs, he will have about ten different centralized monitoring tabs.
Director of Information Technology at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 15, 2021
After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised.
Data Protection Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited
Real User
Jun 19, 2021
The biggest issue is with the SSO, which is missing. With other products, you login into a single user and have access to everything. DPC is not integrated. You can log into it but you have to log into Avamar and Data Domain separately. It's not really a single sign-on to the entire environment in one shot. I would like to see it fully integrated. They need to bring in the SSO so that you can log in once to the IDPA and should be able to access everything through a single user. You shouldn't have to re-authenticate to each of its components. This is a problem. They have multiple logins. They could have made it easier by using SSO. Another area that is missing is the two-factor authentication. The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products. They don't have the ability to integrate with Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or Okta. There is no way of doing two-factor authentication. They need SSO with role-based access. You will have role-based access control to log in, then you should be able to define that login. You can define what access levels it has to the various components. For example, I log in with one user, I should be able to say only have one backup operator, access to Avamar or Data Domain. I can have admin access, search, or have admin, your advisor, the DPA, or I can have normal monitoring of user access. I should be able to define that in a central location.
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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. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) solutions are usually costly. When it is virtualized or comes with additional licenses and additional hardware, the cost increases. The pricing is defined by what kind of performance you are looking for, so based on that, you have to decide what type of disk you need. Scalability is based on how much capacity you have or what slots are available. After that, you have to include the DAEs and capacities. Again, you have to purchase an additional license for Data Domain if you are increasing the capacity.
One area of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) that can be improved is probably more integrations with third-party software, particularly third-party backup software.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience. While technical support is generally not poor, there are challenges with expertise in Linux-based cases. Enhancements in these areas could improve the product.
The solution's implementation was very complicated and could be improved.
The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup.
Managing the product is a little bit complicated.
The solution should be easier to use. Also, there is a lot of documentation available but it has a cost variable so the cost variable should be removed so that more people can take interest.
Dell PowerProtect DP needs to include more features and improve backup for a continual base.
Dell has a product called DP Central, DPC for short. It is a single point from where you can monitor multiple systems. For example, Avamar and Data Domain are storage solutions that can be added explicitly into DPC and monitor everything from one place. But we cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs. If a customer has, let's say, ten to 15 IDPAs, he will have about ten different centralized monitoring tabs.
I can't speak to any missing features. We are happy with the product. We would like to see the pricing drop a bit.
I would like to see more options and features about Recovery from Dell EMC Cloud Tier
After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised.
The biggest issue is with the SSO, which is missing. With other products, you login into a single user and have access to everything. DPC is not integrated. You can log into it but you have to log into Avamar and Data Domain separately. It's not really a single sign-on to the entire environment in one shot. I would like to see it fully integrated. They need to bring in the SSO so that you can log in once to the IDPA and should be able to access everything through a single user. You shouldn't have to re-authenticate to each of its components. This is a problem. They have multiple logins. They could have made it easier by using SSO. Another area that is missing is the two-factor authentication. The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products. They don't have the ability to integrate with Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or Okta. There is no way of doing two-factor authentication. They need SSO with role-based access. You will have role-based access control to log in, then you should be able to define that login. You can define what access levels it has to the various components. For example, I log in with one user, I should be able to say only have one backup operator, access to Avamar or Data Domain. I can have admin access, search, or have admin, your advisor, the DPA, or I can have normal monitoring of user access. I should be able to define that in a central location.
In general, there is no perfect solution and there is always room for improvement. The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive.