OpenText Data Protector and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) are both solid backup and recovery solutions. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) seems to have the upper hand thanks to its advanced features and positive user reviews, which justify its higher cost.
Features: OpenText Data Protector is praised for its comprehensive support of various environments, robust data protection, and user-friendly interface. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is noted for its advanced deduplication, integrated cybersecurity features, and seamless scalability, which users find more valuable overall.
Room for Improvement: Users suggest that OpenText Data Protector improves documentation, reporting capabilities, and user interface design. For Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), users recommend enhancements in scalability, simplification of its initial setup process, and better integration with third-party tools.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Data Protector is recognized for its relatively simple deployment process and responsive customer support. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a more complex deployment but compensates with efficient customer service.
Pricing and ROI: OpenText Data Protector is viewed as cost-effective with decent ROI. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is more expensive but users feel its advanced features justify the higher price and result in better overall ROI.
The PowerProtect DP series appliances is the integrated appliance solution from the Dell data protection appliances portfolio.
PowerProtect DP series appliance: Simple, efficient and agile data protection
The DP series is an all-in-one backup appliance that reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions and vendor relationships. The DP series simplifies deployment and management—while delivering powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, mid-size and enterprise organizations at a low cost-to-protect.
It is an integrated solution that offers complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration — plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery (DR) and long-term retention (LTR) to the cloud — all in a single appliance.
With the DP series, customers reduce their time-to-protect and become more agile with a solution that’s fast, protected more efficiently, can be recovered quickly and is reliable.
Simple to deploy, scale and manage
The DP series enables organizations to protect a broad ecosystem of applications quickly with a single system management console, consolidating workload protection, and eliminating infrastructure or data sprawl. The easy-to-use System Manager simplifies backups and automates daily tasks, including monitoring, management, reporting, analytics and search. The DP series delivers all-in-one data protection: protection storage and software, search and advanced monitoring and analytics, combined with cloud extensibility. It offers integration with VMware, SQL and Oracle management tools so that admins can use familiar UIs.
Powerful cloud, performance and efficiency
The DP series can scale to fit the needs of enterprises with the ability to protect up to 195 PB (logical) of data to the public, private or hybrid clouds with Cloud Tier, with no additional hardware.7 Plus, native Cloud DR with end-to-end orchestration allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from on-premises DP series environments to the public cloud with AWS, Azure, or VMware Cloud on AWS —3 clicks to failover and 2 clicks to failback.
The DP series provides support for modern applications like MongoDB and MySQL and is optimized for VMware. It provides fast, single-step recovery of individual files, dynamic policies for VMs as well as complete VMware images, which can be instantly accessed and migrated live from the DP series appliance back to the production environment (using vMotion) while still running, further simplifying and optimizing VM recovery. Plus, instantly access up to 64 VMs with up to 60,000 IOPS to meet the strictest SLAs.
Data protection search simplifies file-level-recovery (FLR) activities with an easy-to-use search interface. The DP series is also built on the industry-proven Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA), for encryption, fault detection, and healing.
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