IDERA SQL Safe Backup and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) are industry-recognized data protection solutions. Users express greater satisfaction with IDERA SQL Safe Backup's pricing and support, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) excels in feature offerings, suggesting it may justify its higher cost.
Features: IDERA SQL Safe Backup is valued for its efficient compression technology, ease of automation, and straightforward deployment. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) stands out for its extensive integration capabilities, advanced security measures, and robust feature variety and advanced options.
Room for Improvement: Users mention that IDERA SQL Safe Backup could benefit from enhanced reporting tools, a more intuitive configuration process, and adding advanced security measures. For Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), users suggest improvements in performance speed, a more streamlined update process, and better integration with other software systems.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IDERA SQL Safe Backup is praised for its straightforward deployment and high-quality customer service. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) receives feedback on its more complex deployment but effective customer support.
Pricing and ROI: IDERA SQL Safe Backup is noted for its competitive pricing and quick return on investment. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has higher upfront costs but is considered a worthwhile investment due to its comprehensive features.
Challenges exist in certain Linux-based cases.
On the one or two occasions where we needed to engage with Dell support, they've been most helpful.
The product offers flexibility for scalability, making it user-friendly and adaptable to different performance requirements.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is a stable solution because it's a mature product.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) requires more updates and innovations in AI-powered cyber resilience.
One area of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) that can be improved is probably more integrations with third-party software, particularly third-party backup software.
Pricing is competitive with other software vendors.
The pricing of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is competitive compared to its peers in the market.
Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) has a scalable architecture, offering flexibility, so you can always scale the capacity to meet any increased demands.
AI integration enhances backup operations by analyzing data and ensuring malware protection.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) | 0.7% |
| IDERA SQL Safe Backup | 0.4% |
| Other | 98.9% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 5 |
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.
SQL Safe Backup helps database administrators to back up and recover instantly across SQL Servers. Unlike its competition, it provides virtual databases with access to back up files without consuming disk space, instant restore, centralized management across SQL Servers, and alert notifications for success and failure of operations.
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