Acronis Cyber Protect and Microsoft DPM are strong competitors in the data protection category. Acronis Cyber Protect is favored for its versatility, supporting a wide range of hardware along with providing robust cyber protection features, making it often preferred over Microsoft DPM that excels in environments relying on Microsoft products due to its seamless integration.
Features: Acronis Cyber Protect offers universal restore capabilities, image-based backups, and enterprise to end-user requirement fulfillment. It includes seamless backup scheduling and automatic data protection with integrated encryption and ransomware protection. Microsoft DPM is optimized for Microsoft ecosystems, offering effective backup and recovery for Microsoft workloads.
Room for Improvement: Acronis Cyber Protect users report challenges with installation, performance inconsistencies among builds, and complex configurations between software versions. Microsoft DPM users criticize its limited flexibility outside the Microsoft ecosystem, non-Microsoft integration difficulties, and a need for improved usability without manual intervention.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect supports hybrid cloud deployments, offering greater flexibility across environments, while Microsoft DPM predominantly supports on-premises setups. Acronis Cyber Protect generally provides faster and more responsive customer service, whereas users report dissatisfaction with Microsoft DPM's support, facing long resolution times and contact difficulties.
Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect presents competitive pricing and flexible licensing, appealing to SMBs with substantial ROI due to its feature-rich offerings. Microsoft DPM, included with Microsoft licenses, is cost-effective for organizations reliant on Microsoft solutions, though its pricing structure may seem complex. Both ensure positive ROI by safeguarding critical data, with pricing considerations differing based on deployment scope.
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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