Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs Zerto comparison

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Zerto and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager are two data protection solutions with distinct features and user reviews highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. While users appreciate the pricing and support of Zerto, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is often seen as superior due to its extensive features, making it a worthwhile investment.

Features: Zerto offers robust disaster recovery and backup capabilities, praised for its replication speed and ease of use. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager excels in its comprehensive data protection suite, including deduplication and cloud support. Users find Dell’s feature set more thorough, although Zerto stands out for simplicity and performance.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Zerto could improve its reporting and user interface. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is criticized for its complexity and occasional performance issues. Despite this, Dell's users believe enhancements in usability could make it an even stronger contender.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto is noted for its straightforward and quick deployment process, supported by responsive customer service. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager’s deployment is more complex and requires more time, though its customer service is also highly rated. Zerto edges out in deployment simplicity and support responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto is viewed as cost-effective with high ROI due to lower setup costs and efficient operations. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager requires a higher initial investment but promises substantial long-term ROI, justifying the expense through comprehensive features. Despite higher costs, Dell remains a powerful solution for extensive data protection needs.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. Zerto Report (Updated: October 2024).

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. Zerto

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Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (7th)

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

282

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is 4.5%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 2.7%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Pallava Sharma

Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead at Johnson Controls, Inc.

Feb 7, 2024

A tool that offers good capacity management and product management

I am satisfied with the product. The tool streamlines our company's data backup and recovery processes since the solution fits into our landscape and portfolio, especially with what we have in our infrastructure, and it actually helps us comply with data regulations. The tool protects critical data by dealing with areas like unauthorized access. I don't have hands-on experience with the product to be able to comment on how its UI enhances our company's data management tasks. The tool is majorly used in our company's operations team. I only work on certain projects and help the teams to deploy the product. The tool has the ability to handle growing data volume since my company has not faced any scalability issues since we were able to manage areas like sizing and future capacity expansion. To date, my company has not found any scalability issues with the product. It is a good product that fits in the latest infrastructures very well. If you have legacy products in your environment or data centers, then it is better to consider some other product other than Dell PowerProtect Data Manager. I rate the overall tool a seven or eight out of ten.

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Girish Agarwal

Security Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2023

Easy to use, quick to understand, and simple to set up

It's easy to use. It wasn't too difficult to start with. With most vendors, initially, you have a learning curve or configurations. In this case, Zerto was quick to understand. The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple. The experience is comparatively good with Zerto. The near-synchronous replication has not been used much. That said, it does help when talking about storage layers. The availability of the VMs is good. In terms of resiliency, there are a lot of benefits to it. Most have a recovery of 24 to 48 hours; Zerto has gotten recovery down to four hours. We've done a POC with a DR to AWS. It was limited, however, it worked well and there was support. We didn't run into any challenges. The effect on the RPOs has been excellent. It's been impacted greatly. Customers enjoy the shorter timeline to recovery. The customer confidence is high.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."

"I would say flexibility is the most important feature of the product. The performance and speed are the best on the market."

"The solution adequately handles data storage."

"It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."

"The deduplication is the most valuable feature because it helps to control the overhead."

"Dell PowerProtect Data Manager helps to reduce the amount of data being transferred and stored."

"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

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"We now have the ability to replicate critical data to a secure, off-site location that can be brought back in seconds if needed."

"The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple."

"Zerto is low maintenance, so I can set it and forget it. It has a great process and an excellent solution."

"The one-to-many replication functionality is helpful. While we were protecting our VMs in Azure, we were able to use the one-to-many feature to also replicate the same VMs to our new data center, in preparation for data center migration."

"The granularity enables us to failover specific workloads instead of an all-or-nothing type of scenario, where you have to move your entire IP block and your data center, or you have to move large chunks of VMs. Those situations also make it prohibitive to test effectively."

"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."

"We can failover to an isolated environment and validate the application without impacting the production environment. We can do more testing in a non-impactful way..."

"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."

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Cons

"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."

"The tool's scalability has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager reports could improve. There should be different kinds of reports on failures, such as dashboards that we can submit to top management or auditors."

"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."

"The solution should enhance its user interface and make it more flexible."

"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."

"PPDM requires further development. It is primarily integrated with DevOps systems."

"There is always room for improvement. The compression ratio should be improved as well as the efficiency."

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"The technical support response needs improvement."

"There should be an automatic installation in a cluster. When I add a virtual client or ESX source to the cluster, it should automatically install that. There should be automatic installation. Currently, I have to do that manually."

"While Zerto's current version supports VMware environments, I'd like the added flexibility of using Hypervisors as well."

"The product could benefit from improvements in automation, specifically in the area of failovers."

"If we have multiple VMs in a VPG (Virtual Protected Group) and one VM is hung for DR, it holds things up. The only alternative is to create multiple VPGs. It would be nice to have one VPG where, if one VM is failing, it does not impact the overall process."

"They just came out with improvements for ransomware protection last week. I haven't used them yet but, overall, security and preventing ransomware is really a hot topic these days. I would like to see it detect when the ransomware occurs and provide more information on it."

"It has some quirks. We have quirks with appliances. Some things don't really work as expected, but it is minor."

"We would like the LTR function to be able to retain the past 12 months."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is not an expensive solution."

"The solution is more affordable than other vendors."

"We offer monthly or yearly subscriptions. The price could be cheaper."

"The solution is not less expensive than competitors but pricing deals are available."

"The product is offered at a very competitive price in the market."

"The licensing costs and pricing model are based on capacity and the license is easy to upgrade."

"The price of Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is reasonable."

"We find the Zerto pricing fits our budget."

"Zerto is like a Ferrari. It's very fast but not the cheapest solution. You're paying a high price for quality and the assurance that you will have the environment up and steady."

"This solution is far less expensive than SRM and NetBackup."

"At the time I had purchased the product, the pricing was fair and reasonable. Over the years, costs have certainly gone up, which makes it hard for healthcare companies to use the solution."

"Zerto is slightly expensive, but we do see the value in it."

"Licensing is VM based so you can buy packages or single VM. Price is not low but the power of application is high, so you will get your money back."

"You need to figure out how many critical servers and applications you have in your environment so you will know how many Zerto licenses to buy."

"While we find the twenty-five VM license somewhat inflexible, the actual setup costs are minimal as the product is so easy to install."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dell PowerProtect Data Manager?

One notable feature is its robust backup support for Kubernetes and container environments. Additionally, PPDM stands out for its ease of deployment and management compared to other backup solution...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerProtect Data Manager?

The solution's cost depends on the storage. Currently, the pricing for Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is more flexible for customers. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is not an expensive solution. On...

What needs improvement with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager?

The tool's scalability has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required. The market and technology-driven factors will let the market know of any requirements of the user...

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Zerto is priced high.

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Also Known As

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Overview

PowerProtect Data Manager offers efficient data protection capabilities leveraging the latest evolution of Dell trusted protection storage architecture.

With operational simplicity, agility and flexibility at its core, PowerProtect Data Manager enables the protection, management and recovery of data in on-premises, virtualized and cloud deployments, including protection of in-cloud workloads. You can also protect cloud-native workloads across multiple public clouds via our integrated SaaS based PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager.

Modernize how you protect your VMware virtual machines using Transparent Snapshots. Transparent Snapshots simplifies VM image backups for near-zero impact to your VMs or VM resources – and it works with any VMware supported storage. Transparent Snapshots innovation increases backup performance, lowers costs and simplifies management and reduces the risk of data loss.

Streamline data protection directly for applications or Kubernetes containers to Dell PowerProtect appliances and reduce application resource constraints.

Increase business resiliency with PowerProtect Cyber Recovery capabilities to rapidly recover from cyber incidents.

Modular design allows agile delivery of new features and updates. Rapidly evolve to meet future IT demands.

Software defined: Provide flexible data protection and compliance across applications and cloud-native IT environments
Multi-cloud optimized: Extend protection to the cloud with backup to cloud, backup in-cloud, long term retention and cloud disaster recovery
Self-service: Backup and restore directly from native applications
Cloud-Based Monitoring and Analytics: Telemetry, machine learning and predictive analytics to proactively take action and speed time to resolution

Reviews from Real Users

“We keep an eye on the future, and we are confident that PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect DD series appliances will support our transformation project. Both products are continuously evolving and will cover our future needs, including using the cloud for data protection.” – Dimitris Mavromichalis, IT Deputy Manager at National Bank of Greece

“PowerProtect Data Manager combined with PowerProtect appliances – that’s cutting edge. That’s world leading as far as we’re concerned.” – Drew Hills, Infrastructure Analyst at USC Australia

““Most of my wish list came true with the PowerProtect Data Manager plugin for vSphere, which provides perfect integration with vCenter.” – Dave Chapman, Senior Technician at PSC Publishing

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Sample Customers

National Bank of Greece, USC Australia, PCS Publishing, Dell Digital IT, Rushmore Electric, Melanson Health, Arrow Electronics

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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