We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Overall, based on user reviews, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager stands out for its seamless integration, efficient backup and recovery capabilities, advanced analytics, security measures, and excellent customer support. Users also praise its ROI, suggesting improved operational efficiency and reduced business downtime. However, some users suggest enhancements in areas such as interface, documentation, compatibility, and performance. In comparison, feedback on Veeam Backup & Replication lacks detail, making it challenging to summarize its features, ROI, customer service, and specific areas for improvement.
Features: The valuable features of Veeam Backup & Replication were not mentioned in the reviews provided. In contrast, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager offers seamless integration, efficient backup and recovery, advanced analytics, robust security, user-friendly interface, and excellent customer support.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Veeam Backup & Replication is unclear due to missing review answers. However, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager has received positive feedback for its pricing, with users finding it reasonable and fair. The setup cost is described as straightforward and hassle-free, while the licensing is considered user-friendly and flexible. Overall, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager offers a favorable experience in terms of pricing, setup cost, and licensing., Unfortunately, there is no available data to provide a summary of the ROI for Veeam Backup & Replication. However, based on user feedback, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager demonstrated a significant return on investment. Users praised its efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and ability to streamline data protection and recovery processes. They also valued its comprehensive features and seamless integration with existing infrastructure.
Room for Improvement: Veeam Backup & Replication lacks specific feedback for improvement. However, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager has suggestions for enhancements, including a more intuitive interface, better documentation and support resources, increased compatibility, improved performance and reliability.
Deployment and customer support: The user feedback on Veeam Backup & Replication lacks specific information to provide a summary. On the other hand, user feedback for Dell PowerProtect Data Manager suggests varying durations for deployment and setup, with some users mentioning three months for deployment and an additional week for setup, while others mentioned a week for both. This indicates that deployment and setup may sometimes refer to the same period for Dell PowerProtect Data Manager., Veeam Backup & Replication does not have any information regarding its customer service and support, whereas Dell PowerProtect Data Manager receives positive reviews for its efficient and helpful customer service.
The summary above is based on 111 interviews we conducted recently with Veeam Backup & Replication and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The solution adequately handles data storage."
"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."
"It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."
"The deduplication is the most valuable feature because it helps to control the overhead."
"I would say flexibility is the most important feature of the product. The performance and speed are the best on the market."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"Dell PowerProtect Data Manager helps to reduce the amount of data being transferred and stored."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It is a global major solution for quite a lot of people."
"If you have a lot of central sites and remote sites, you can easily set up the replication and make it easier."
"The WAN accelerator feature has been the most valuable for me. That feature reduced the time needed to complete the task from 25 days to less than a week! This is compared with the original tools used: ntbackup, robocopy and Windows Server Backup."
"Replication is most valuable."
"It's a pretty complete product."
"Its ease of use for restore is really good. For Exchange, the Exchange Active Directory is great."
"Its backup capabilities in general are great."
"I enjoy the ability to quickly search for VMs through the Veeam console."
"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."
"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."
"The Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager reports could improve. There should be different kinds of reports on failures, such as dashboards that we can submit to top management or auditors."
"Management is difficult and it is hard to determine when things aren't working properly."
"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."
"As a new product, there are some things that still need to improve a bit as it matures."
"There is always room for improvement. The compression ratio should be improved as well as the efficiency."
"The interface is too complex."
"A backup and replication solution should be able to back up a system and do recovery very fast. Even though Veeam Backup & Replication is able to meet most of our needs, it would be better if they can make it faster for backup and restore."
"The direct SAN backup integration can be perfected by improving the snapshot removal mechanism and process from the storage volumes."
"The SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
"Even though the speed has improved over the years, I think that there are some instances where it still takes a while."
"Veeam needs to have more support for non-Windows systems and other databases. For example, I can do SQL with Veeam but not Informix or Oracle. This is unfortunate because we have many partners with Oracle systems and Informix databases, and Veeam does not yet have the agents we need for specific Oracle and UNIX operating systems."
"We struggled to stabilize the application. We had an incident which resulted in a loss of data and have terminated this solution due to lack of support from the Veeam team."
"The solution is rather weak when it comes to database integration."
"There's a lot of room for improvement surrounding the backup process."
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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is rated 7.4, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect Data Manager writes "A tool that offers good capacity management and product management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is most compared with Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Rubrik, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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