Asigra and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) offer comprehensive data protection solutions. Users generally perceive Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) as superior due to its robust feature set and overall value.
Features: Asigra's agentless architecture, data recovery options, and extensive cloud backup capabilities are key features. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) offers comprehensive data management, deduplication, and advanced integration with VMware environments. Dell's feature set often leads users to perceive it as a more complete solution.
Room for Improvement: Asigra users mention scalability issues and desire more intuitive reporting tools. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) users point out complexity in configuration and occasional performance lags. Both products have room to grow, with Asigra needing better expansion options and Dell requiring streamlined setup processes.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Asigra is praised for ease of deployment and efficient customer service, making it suitable for diverse environments. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) users, however, find the deployment process more intricate but appreciate the comprehensive support provided by Dell’s customer service team. Asigra offers a smoother deployment experience, while Dell ensures robust post-implementation support.
Pricing and ROI: Asigra is favored for its transparent pricing model and low total cost of ownership, resulting in a quicker return on investment. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), although more expensive, justifies the pricing with its extensive features and long-term benefits. Users find Dell's higher upfront costs acceptable due to its superior performance and extended ROI timelines.
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.
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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