Dell Data Protection Suite vs Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) comparison

Dell Data Protection Suite and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Dell Data Protection Suite is ranked #80, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked #43 with an average rating of 8.0. Dell Data Protection Suite holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Data Protection Suite users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) users who would recommend it.

Dell Data Protection Suite

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100% willing to recommend

Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)

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93% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Dell Data Protection Suite and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Data Protection Suite

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

80th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

43rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Dell Data Protection Suite is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)	0.7%
Dell Data Protection Suite	0.5%
Other	98.8%

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Kalpesh Pawar

Technical Head - Cloud Services at Softcell Technologies Limited

Centralized data protection has improved compliance and reduces sensitive data exposure

Dell Data Protection Suite offers full disk encryption, data loss prevention, centralized policy management, advanced threat detection, and role-based access control. Dell Data Protection Suite has positively impacted the organization by strengthening the data security posture through consistent enforcement of encryption and DLP across endpoints and servers. It has reduced the risk of data leakage, simplified compliance reporting, and lowered operational overhead through centralized policy and key management across multiple customer environments. Since deploying Dell Data Protection Suite, there has been a 40% reduction in data-related security incidents, mainly due to enforced encryption and DLP controls. Compliance audits are completed 30% faster because of centralized reporting and audit logs. Operational effort has been reduced by automating policy enforcement across endpoints and cloud workloads, resulting in measurable cost and time savings.

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Pranav Telang

Lead Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Integrated backup platform has simplified upgrades and centralized management for enterprise sites

You cannot integrate with any other third-party solution or your Data Domain since it is very tightly coupled and has limited licenses with respect to capacity that are integrated directly with Avamar. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) solutions are usually costly. When it is virtualized or comes with additional licenses and additional hardware, the cost increases. The pricing is defined by what kind of performance you are looking for, so based on that, you have to decide what type of disk you need. Scalability is based on how much capacity you have or what slots are available. After that, you have to include the DAEs and capacities. Again, you have to purchase an additional license for Data Domain if you are increasing the capacity.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Dell Data Protection Suite is a comprehensive suite offering virus-free and ransomware-free data protection."

"Since deploying Dell Data Protection Suite, there has been a 40% reduction in data-related security incidents, mainly due to enforced encryption and DLP controls."

"I'd rate the solution ten out of ten."

"If someone is looking for a very tightly-coupled solution for backup storage and does not want to deal with complicated upgrade processes, and desires easy reporting and a homogeneous solution rather than heterogeneous backup solutions where backup software and storage are different, I believe Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is one of the best options for such customers."

"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."

"The product is integrated with Huawei software and its backup and recovery time is very fast."

"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."

"Instead of four or five tools, consisting of backup software, storage where the backup resides, and a separate system for reporting and central monitoring, they all now come in the virtual edition for IDP."

"What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance."

"The solution is strong."

"The solution's most valuable features are networker and continuous data protection."

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Cons

"The lack of documentation has been a frustrating point regarding improvements needed for Dell Data Protection Suite."

"While Dell DPS is a powerful solution, it is expensive, which allows competitors to find their place in the market. The deployment is complex and not simplified, requiring professional expertise."

"While Dell DPS is a powerful solution, it is expensive, which allows competitors to find their place in the market."

"After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised."

"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."

"We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs."

"Managing the product is a little bit complicated."

"The solution should be easier to use."

"The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products."

"There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity."

"I would like to see integration with Dell EMC's Cloud Tier."

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"Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a yearly subscription fee."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"We have a perpetual license. It is a capacity-based license."

"It is a cost-effective solution."

"The licensing is billed on a monthly basis. Dell is bundled so that when you order IDPA, you get everything together with the license."

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Government

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Educational Organization

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell Data Protection Suite?

The solution is very expensive, which is its main drawback compared to competition in the market.

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What needs improvement with Dell Data Protection Suite?

While Dell DPS is a powerful solution, it is expensive, which allows competitors to find their place in the market. The deployment is complex and not simplified, requiring professional expertise. A...

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What is your primary use case for Dell Data Protection Suite?

As a reseller and partner of Dell Technologies, I sell and resell whatever Dell offers in Pakistan. I am involved in storage solutions, including products like Powerwall, Compellent, and PowerStore...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)?

The pricing of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is competitive compared to its peers in the market, and while it can always come down, I still think it's a fair price.

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What needs improvement with Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)?

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What is your primary use case for Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)?

We implemented Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) for one of our biggest enterprise customers across their 30 sites. The customer had hyperconverged infrastructure and was looking for a completely isolate...

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Also Known As

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Dell EMC IDPA, Dell IDPA, EMC IDPA

Overview

Dell Data Protection Suite is a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution known for its robust encryption, seamless system integration, and support for various storage options.

Chosen by many for its proficiency in safeguarding data and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations, Dell Data Protection Suite efficiently manages essential information to ensure minimal downtime. It is celebrated for its reliable backup and recovery features, easy deployment, scalability, and efficient performance under different workloads. The centralized management console is intuitive, making it effective for multiple data protection tasks. However, some users suggest improvements in performance speed, error handling, installation simplicity, and compatibility with newer operating systems. Enhanced technical support, better scalability, cost-effectiveness, simplified complexity, broader platform compatibility, and comprehensive documentation are also areas noted for improvement.

What are the most valuable features?

Robust Encryption: Ensures data security through advanced encryption methods.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing systems for smooth operation.
Reliable Backup and Recovery: Provides dependable data backup and recovery options.
Ease of Deployment: Simple to deploy across IT environments.
Comprehensive Data Protection: Offers extensive data protection capabilities.
Scalability: Performs efficiently under different workloads.
Centralized Management Console: Intuitive interface for managing protection tasks.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Data Security: High-level encryption and data protection.
Minimal Downtime: Efficient management leads to reduced downtime.
Compliance: Helps in meeting data protection regulations.
Ease of Use: Intuitive management tools simplify data protection tasks.
Cost Efficiency: Reliable performance results in better resource management.
Scalable Solutions: Adaptable to evolving IT needs.

In specific industries like finance and healthcare, Dell Data Protection Suite is implemented to ensure stringent data security and regulatory compliance. Manufacturing and retail sectors leverage its scalability and reliability for comprehensive data management and recovery. Its advanced encryption and seamless integration make it a favored choice across various sectors needing robust data protection.

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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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