Microsoft DPM and Dell NetWorker are enterprise data protection solutions. Microsoft DPM has the upper hand in pricing and customer support, offering a cost-effective solution with robust backing, while Dell NetWorker stands out for its feature offerings and advanced capabilities.
Features: Microsoft DPM integrates within Windows ecosystems, enabling seamless backups for Windows-based applications with emphasis on ease of use. It offers efficient data recovery and robust protection for Microsoft services like Exchange and SharePoint. Dell NetWorker provides cross-platform support with powerful backup features extending to cloud environments, allowing for tailored configurations. Its flexibility supports a wide range of IT infrastructures.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft DPM could enhance its cross-platform capabilities and support for non-Microsoft applications to widen its appeal. The product also has room for improvement in advanced feature sets suitable for complex IT environments. Dell NetWorker could simplify its deployment process and reduce the complexity of its configuration, particularly for smaller enterprises. It might also offer more competitive pricing options for mid-sized businesses seeking advanced functionalities.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft DPM is known for its straightforward setup, particularly within existing Microsoft environments, minimizing deployment complexity. It benefits from Microsoft's vast support network, making it user-friendly. Dell NetWorker requires more expertise during deployment due to its wide-ranging options but benefits from strong technical support for intricate setups. While DPM excels in ease of deployment, Dell offers superior post-deployment service options.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM provides a cost-effective initial setup for companies with Microsoft investments, generating substantial ROI through reduced downtime. Dell NetWorker involves a higher upfront investment, justified by its advanced features and flexibility, offering significant ROI for larger enterprises with complex backup requirements. DPM stands out for its affordability, whereas NetWorker is a strategic long-term investment for businesses at a larger scale.
Built on a reputation of efficiency and reliability, thousands of customers trust Dell NetWorker to protect their data and applications across multiple environments, from core to edge to cloud.
Inherently flexible, NetWorker helps you deploy and leverage the data protection that fits your needs. NetWorker protects both physical and virtual environments, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as cloud workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
NetWorker is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. NetWorker 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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