Asigra and Microsoft DPM compete in data protection and recovery, with Asigra excelling in flexibility and scalability, and Microsoft DPM standing out in Microsoft ecosystem integration, which appeals to businesses relying on Microsoft's technology stack.
Features: Asigra offers an agentless architecture, reducing client-side software requirements and enabling efficient management. It supports a wide range of OS and virtual machines. Incremental Forever backups minimize data transmission, ensuring quick, reliable data protection. Microsoft DPM directly integrates with Microsoft technologies, providing robust data protection for SQL Server and Exchange. It features single-item recovery and supports direct integration with Azure for seamless backup processes.
Room for Improvement: Asigra could enhance its user interface for a more intuitive experience and improve documentation for complex environments. It might also expand native support for non-traditional data sources. Microsoft DPM could simplify its setup process as it can be time-consuming. Enhanced support for non-Microsoft environments and improved scalability features would make it more competitive in diverse IT landscapes.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Asigra's agentless design and centralized management make deployment straightforward with responsive customer support. Microsoft DPM’s deployment process benefits those using Microsoft systems but can be complex, although it offers extensive documentation for support, which requires familiarity with Microsoft environments.
Pricing and ROI: Asigra delivers competitive pricing, focusing on reducing the total cost with scalable solutions and substantial ROI over time. Microsoft DPM involves a higher initial investment, justified by its comprehensive integration within Microsoft's service ecosystem, promising ROI for organizations heavily relying on Microsoft services.
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.
Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) is an enterprise backup system that can be used to back up data from a source location to a target secondary location. Microsoft DPM allows you to back up application data from Microsoft servers and workloads, and file data from servers and client computers. You can create full backups, incremental backups, differential backups, and bare-metal backups to completely restore a system. Microsoft DPM can store backup data to disks for short-term storage, to Azure Cloud for both for short-term and long-term storage off-premises, and to tapes for long-term storage, which can then be stored offsite. Backed up files are indexed, which allows you to easily search your recovered data.
Microsoft DPM contributes to your business continuity and disaster recovery strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data, ensuring resources are available and recoverable during planned and unplanned outages. When outages occur and source data is unavailable, you can use DPM to easily restore data to the original source or to an alternate location.
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Reviews from Real Users
Microsoft DPM stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust and flexible backup capabilities and its being easy to manage with one central dashboard.
William M., the head of ICT infrastructure & security at a tech services company, notes, "The automated procedure is quite good for us, as it is able to capture all of the information that we require. The compatibility is very good. We have an IBM AS/400 machine in our office that we're using, and we're able to back it up fine. This is the same for other systems, as well. I think that overall, it is really adaptable, compatible, and scalable."
Mohammed I., a managing director at Adalites, notes, "I would definitely recommend data protection DPM. It has an application backup, a file backup, a system backup and a hypervisor. It works flawlessly, never a problem."
Rodney C. a system analyst at a financial services firm, writes, "The most valuable feature is that DPM has an index so individual files can be searched. This is our primary tool for recovering deleted files or folders. Once we implement a System Center Operations Manager, all of our DPM servers can then be seen on one dashboard."
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