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BDRShield vs Dell PowerProtect Backup Services comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

BDRShield
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
21st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (10th), MSP Backup (2nd)
Dell PowerProtect Backup Se...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
40th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Thomas Roes - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Switact
Ease of backup and restore improves data management with reliable support
The interface of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is pretty intuitive. Regarding their marketing strategy, I'm very bad at marketing. I always get a little edgy when people try to shove their product in my face. There are two sides to the story. If you don't know something exists, you might not even start to look for it unless you really know that you need it. If you are explicitly looking for a solution, then you'll find it. People that don't know that they should do backup don't have a place in IT. I rate BDRSuite Backup & Replication 8.5 out of 10.
Angel Lacerna - PeerSpot reviewer
Oficial Senior at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Backup services have improved security and saved time for cloud workloads in test environments
Regarding security or pricing, our experience is definitely limited, but I can say that support is good. I think the pricing could be better, or they could improve support, automations, or customizations. Dell PowerProtect Backup Services can be improved, and I want it to be even easier to manage, to secure the workload, and to restore easily. The areas for improvement with Dell PowerProtect Backup Services include that it is a cloud solution and a SaaS solution for scheduling the tasks to protect workloads. It is not too easy; it is a little closed, as Dell PowerProtect Backup Services does not allow us to customize the schedule in backup tasks, which only has options for daily or twice a day. More options to schedule backup tasks would be better.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The Vembu BDR product is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The way in which the backup compression happens is really amazing, saving me almost 50 percent of my file storage space on SAN."
"I like Vembu because of the price point, the ease of use, the support, and it being full-featured backup software for the needs that I have."
"Vembu has helped to reduce at least a day's worth of downtime, saving several hundred dollars every six months by allowing me to recover VMs quickly instead of rebuilding the whole environment from scratch."
"If we do a backup of a machine at some point and the server crashes, then we can restore this machine to a different server with the same settings and setup. We will just have to tweak one or two things, like the IP. Then, it is ready to go."
"Because all our servers are hosted on VMware, the VMware backup is the most valuable feature. The integration and backup with VMware are very good."
"The most useful feature is that you can back up the virtual machines in different ways. You can back up from a vhost, and you can also back up from a Windows server. It doesn't matter what type of infrastructure or hypervisor is there. It's very flexible, which is its most useful feature for us."
"This solution helped us deliver an enterprise level data protection solution and reduced our budget by 50 percent."
"Some of the returns on investment I see with this product are security and saving time."
"The handiest feature of Dell PowerProtect Backup Services is that it syncs up our backups to other locations—we don't have to worry about our backups not syncing to other locations, and it monitors and reports to us if there are any issues."
 

Cons

"The user interface isn't that good. I don't think that the product is user-friendly."
"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."
"Vembu software runs on a Windows Server. The Windows Server has to be connected to the internet so it can connect with Vembu’s servers. It has to connect with Vembu. For some reason, if it doesn't connect, it stops working, and I don't know why on earth they do that. They require it to connect to the internet and connect with Vembu for it to continue to function. If the internet is down or if the server can't reach the internet, it stops working after a few days. That's not great because there are some people who want to do backups but they don't want to have their server accessible on the internet."
"Windows 10 does not have application-aware backups. From my point of view, that's what's existing needs improvement."
"It's not that stable yet. Every two weeks, my backup will stop and I have to check it."
"We have not been able to move our backups from one drive to another one. We can only create a storage pool. However, if we want to change a drive, it is not possible to delete one drive as long there is data on it. For this, we have to call the support. While they can solve this, it is not out-of-the-box."
"The compression is unusable in every scenario because the data that we backup is too different, according to each type."
"I am not giving it a higher score because it is complicated to recover a crashed backup server."
"I think the pricing could be better, or they could improve support, automations, or customizations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I've purchased and been licensed for one aspect of it, which is my preferred method, but the pricing and licensing will not work for the short-term and I can't draw back."
"I think it is a good value for the price."
"I deployed Veeam and it worked very well, but the problem was that its price was very high. As a result, I searched for another solution and found Vembu. I deployed it and we have been happy with it. For us, the major difference was the pricing."
"The pricing is good. The tough part is estimating storage needs."
"The return of investment was very fast, within half a year."
"The product is affordable, and we focus on SMBs for our customer base."
"The pricing of Vembu could be better. They have a good product, and I know good products cost money, but they need to find a balance."
"The high availability is too expensive for our customers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
17%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Performing Arts
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business44
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise10
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?
BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...
What needs improvement with BDRSuite?
I really don't know what could be improved about BDRSuite Backup & Replication. I've never had anything that I thought would be nice if that was possible. Every time I thought that, it was alre...
What is your primary use case for BDRSuite?
BDRSuite Backup & Replication is used in my company and I recommend it to my customers.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerProtect Backup Services?
From what I know of the pricing. Dell PowerProtect Backup Services costs us around 10 grand. I think it was $10,000 initially. For what it does, it's worth it. It provides that reliability, so it i...
What needs improvement with Dell PowerProtect Backup Services?
Regarding security or pricing, our experience is definitely limited, but I can say that support is good. I think the pricing could be better, or they could improve support, automations, or customiz...
What is your primary use case for Dell PowerProtect Backup Services?
Dell PowerProtect Backup Services is what we use in the development and testing environment to protect any virtual machines in the OpenShift environment and Kubernetes. Currently, Dell PowerProtect...
 

Also Known As

Vembu BDRSuite, BDRSuite Backup & Replication
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Sample Customers

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola
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