Dell Data Protection Advisor Reviews

The main use case is data privacy.

The solution includes compliance management features such as HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS.

From the integration perspective, Dell Data Protection Advisor can integrate with VMware, physical tape library, other backup solutions, Oracle solution, and CA Arcserve, making it a comprehensive solution.

As a system engineer, I am deploying Dell Data Protection Advisor solutions, especially in the areas of protection like Avamar, NetWorker, and Data Domain. Our team has deployed these solutions for three organizations in Africa and India.

Dell Data Protection Advisor provides proactive support by giving predictions before any problems occur. It also offers valuable information about the usage of disk space and directions on adding capacity to target devices. This makes the system very beneficial for our clients.

The solution is primarily used for reporting. In the user environment the client has different queries so reports are needed to understand the size of the data that will be backed up for a week or a month. Basing on that we can forecast the size to which the data will grow. For instance, if a backup is is failing  continuously for three days, days, then it triggers an alert  for us  so that customer can pay some attention. 

The reporting feature and the Dell's continuous improvement of the solution are the most valuable features. The solution not only supports Dell Power Products but also other products. 

I'm using this solution for backup. We upload our backup to the cloud, but it is not a hybrid environment. I use it for backup mostly and access the backup on-premise. We are resellers.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

We have plans to increase usage of backup and deduplication that we are going to apply to end users.

As an example, we improved our RTO and RPO. Before using this solution, we had a ransomware event and suffered because of it.

We use Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor to receive reports on the health of the daily backups of our data in our organization. The reports give us information in many areas, such as capacity, compression, high and lowest deduplication, workloads, and the number of failures.

The solution is easy to use, flexible and has a lot of out-of-the-box functionality. You can configure the dashboards or you can use a script. However, to fully utilize its capabilities you will want to use a lot of scripts which you will need advanced training. The reports can be customized for many things, such as chargeback billing.

Additionally, we are using this solution for Dell, but Data Protection Advisor (DPA) can be used for other backup solutions, such as NetBackup, pfSense, and Veeam Backup. However, you would have to have a license.

We use the product for data protection purposes.

The platform's most valuable features are data protection and retention.

The tool is used as a backup for Dell clients. 

I can increase the tool's licensing as per my requirement with no conditions applied. 

We do not use it very often because the other data domain products that we use make it obsolete. 

DPA only has value as a reporting tool for auditors. It has provided no value as a tool to improve the efficiency of our backup environment.