Microsoft DPM and Dell NetWorker compete in data protection and management. Microsoft DPM has a slight edge in pricing and seamless Microsoft environment integration. Dell NetWorker stands out with extensive features and scalability for larger enterprises.
Features: Microsoft DPM offers smooth integration with Windows Server and System Center, enhancing disk-to-disk backup and supporting Microsoft-centric infrastructures. Dell NetWorker supports multiple platforms, advanced deduplication, and extensive server workloads, making it fit for diverse IT environments.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft DPM could improve support for non-Microsoft platforms and advanced deduplication. Additionally, its scalability for larger enterprises and non-Microsoft environment integration could enhance its utility. Dell NetWorker may benefit from a more user-friendly interface, simplified deployment processes, and improved initial setup ease.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft DPM integrates easily with Microsoft environments, simplifying setup by leveraging existing tools. Dell NetWorker, with its decentralized architecture, requires more initial setup effort but offers extensive customization and scalability, supported by detailed documentation and support channels.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM offers lower setup costs and integrates well with existing Microsoft solutions, providing good ROI for organizations within Microsoft ecosystems. Dell NetWorker, with higher upfront costs, delivers significant ROI for enterprises requiring extensive platform support and advanced features, justifying its premium pricing.
Built on a reputation of efficiency and reliability, thousands of customers trust Dell NetWorker to protect their data and applications across multiple environments, from core to edge to cloud.
Inherently flexible, NetWorker helps you deploy and leverage the data protection that fits your needs. NetWorker protects both physical and virtual environments, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as cloud workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
NetWorker is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. NetWorker is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.
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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