Asigra and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager are both comprehensive backup and recovery solutions with different strengths. User reviews indicate that Dell PowerProtect Data Manager offers superior features that many users find worth the investment, while Asigra has better pricing and support levels.
Features: Asigra is praised for its extensive cloud backup capabilities, agentless architecture, and flexibility in deployment. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is noted for its robust integration with VMware, scalable architecture, and comprehensive feature set suited for enterprise environments.
Room for Improvement: Users suggest Asigra could enhance its reporting and analytics tools, improve its user interface, and provide better documentation. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager could improve its error-handling methods, offer better support for non-VMware environments, and streamline its update process.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Asigra's deployment is highlighted for its straightforwardness and lower resource requirements. Customer service receives positive feedback for promptness. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager’s deployment, while more complex, is efficient in large-scale setups. Customer service is regarded as professional but sometimes slow in response.
Pricing and ROI: Asigra offers competitive pricing, and users see clear ROI through reduced operational costs. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager has higher upfront costs but is justified by its extensive capabilities. Users acknowledge that although Dell is more expensive, the ROI is significant in complex enterprise systems.
Asigra makes award-winning enterprise backup and recovery software that leads the industry in secure, reliable, manageable and affordable data protection. Asigra Cloud Backup works in the cloud or on-premise, for everything from mobile devices to entire data centers.
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.
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
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