

Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) are both leading solutions in the data protection market. Acronis Cyber Protect has the upper hand in pricing and support, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is superior in terms of comprehensive features and scalability.
Features:Acronis Cyber Protect is praised for its integration capabilities, robust backup, and security features. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is valued for its reliability, scalability, and wide range of supported platforms.
Room for Improvement:Users suggest Acronis Cyber Protect could improve by enhancing its restoration speed and user experience. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) could benefit from a more intuitive configuration process and reducing overall complexity.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Acronis Cyber Protect is noted for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a more intricate deployment process but offers robust customer support.
Pricing and ROI:Acronis Cyber Protect is commended for its cost-effectiveness and quick return on investment. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) though more expensive offers value through its robust feature set and long-term ROI.
My customers see value in money and ROI with Acronis Cyber Protect, so they purchase it.
Whenever I have a question, they respond very quickly each time.
I'll give them a nine for how responsive they are in technical support.
We go to our control system OEM for support, including backup, restoration, and cybersecurity protocols.
Challenges exist in certain Linux-based cases.
On the one or two occasions where we needed to engage with Dell support, they've been most helpful.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) support from Dell EMC is consistent.
Acronis Cyber Protect is a scalable product.
I would rate it eight on a scale from 1 to 10 for scalability, considering it will be multiple assets.
The product offers flexibility for scalability, making it user-friendly and adaptable to different performance requirements.
It ended up being at a point where we actually had to disable some features in order for the client to work through that specific purpose.
The stability of Acronis Cyber Protect is very high.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is a stable solution because it's a mature product.
We are not very comfortable with cloud-based solutions at this time. We are looking for products which are entirely on-premises, so they remain within our control.
It's only after we discovered there was a compatibility issue with the application that the client was running that we actually had to do a lot of log file shipping to Acronis themselves and getting solutions because of other problems.
Having something such as a community for peer-to-peer interaction would be a valuable asset.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience.
You cannot integrate with any other third-party solution or your Data Domain since it is very tightly coupled and has limited licenses with respect to capacity that are integrated directly with Avamar.
One area of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) that can be improved is probably more integrations with third-party software, particularly third-party backup software.
I would rate the price as nine out of ten.
Pricing is competitive with other software vendors.
The pricing of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is competitive compared to its peers in the market.
The biggest benefit of Acronis Cyber Protect for my customers is that it is a great asset to protect business data and ensure data is in a secure Vault.
It also encrypts your backups and makes it safe, so it doesn't get affected with viruses.
This is beneficial because any backup package stored in the cloud is not free, and if it shrinks well, it allows users to pay less for cloud storage.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a scalable architecture, offering flexibility, so you can always scale the capacity to meet any increased demands.
AI integration enhances backup operations by analyzing data and ensuring malware protection.
It is easy for rebooting and upgrading since everything is managed from a single pane through DPA, where you can upgrade everything including your backup solution and backup storage in a one-touch interface.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Acronis Cyber Protect | 2.5% |
| Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) | 0.7% |
| Other | 96.8% |


| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 68 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 15 |
| Large Enterprise | 24 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 6 |
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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