Actifio and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) offer robust data protection solutions. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has the upper hand due to its more comprehensive feature set despite higher costs.
Features: Actifio focuses on data management capabilities, rapid recovery options, and data virtualization techniques. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) provides extensive integration with various environments, robust security features, and efficient deduplication.
Room for Improvement: Actifio requires better scalability, enhanced integration with third-party tools, and an improved user interface. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) could benefit from better system performance, more intuitive configuration processes, and a streamlined upgrade path.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Actifio is praised for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) also has positive deployment feedback, though it may involve more complex setups. Dell's customer service is rated well but deemed less accessible than Actifio's support.
Pricing and ROI: Actifio is perceived as more cost-effective with quicker ROI, making it attractive for mid-sized businesses. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is higher in cost but delivers long-term value justified by its extensive feature set. Users find Actifio offers good value while Dell is seen as a worthwhile investment for advanced features and reliability.
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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