OpenText Data Protector and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager are two prominent data protection solutions. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager has the upper hand with advanced features and user satisfaction despite a higher price.
Features: OpenText Data Protector offers comprehensive data recovery, backup capabilities, and simplified deployment. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager features advanced automation, integration with modern data environments, and superior scalability.
Room for Improvement: OpenText Data Protector needs better scalability, faster technical support, and improved interface intuitiveness. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager should simplify the complex configuration process, enhance the user interface, and improve documentation clarity.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Data Protector is straightforward to deploy but needs better customer support. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is more challenging to deploy but benefits from robust customer service and comprehensive support documentation.
Pricing and ROI: OpenText Data Protector has lower initial setup costs and quicker ROI. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager requires a higher upfront investment but offers long-term value through advanced features and scalability.
PowerProtect Data Manager offers efficient data protection capabilities leveraging the latest evolution of Dell trusted protection storage architecture.
With operational simplicity, agility and flexibility at its core, PowerProtect Data Manager enables the protection, management and recovery of data in on-premises, virtualized and cloud deployments, including protection of in-cloud workloads. You can also protect cloud-native workloads across multiple public clouds via our integrated SaaS based PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager.
Modernize how you protect your VMware virtual machines using Transparent Snapshots. Transparent Snapshots simplifies VM image backups for near-zero impact to your VMs or VM resources – and it works with any VMware supported storage. Transparent Snapshots innovation increases backup performance, lowers costs and simplifies management and reduces the risk of data loss.
Streamline data protection directly for applications or Kubernetes containers to Dell PowerProtect appliances and reduce application resource constraints.
Increase business resiliency with PowerProtect Cyber Recovery capabilities to rapidly recover from cyber incidents.
Modular design allows agile delivery of new features and updates. Rapidly evolve to meet future IT demands.
Reviews from Real Users
“We keep an eye on the future, and we are confident that PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect DD series appliances will support our transformation project. Both products are continuously evolving and will cover our future needs, including using the cloud for data protection.” – Dimitris Mavromichalis, IT Deputy Manager at National Bank of Greece
“PowerProtect Data Manager combined with PowerProtect appliances – that’s cutting edge. That’s world leading as far as we’re concerned.” – Drew Hills, Infrastructure Analyst at USC Australia
““Most of my wish list came true with the PowerProtect Data Manager plugin for vSphere, which provides perfect integration with vCenter.” – Dave Chapman, Senior Technician at PSC Publishing
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