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

Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Veeam Data Platform Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment.""We don't need to manage different devices.""The solution is strong.""What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance.""Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable.""The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data.""We use it for complete backup and recovery. We have multiple clients and have created multiple large virtual capabilities and zoning backlogs.""IDPA's best feature is Turbo Boost Technology. The compression and duplication features are excellent, too."

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"The most valuable addition recently introduced is the Continuous Data Protection feature.""I think Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is an excellent solution for ensuring user-side disaster recovery. It involves a platform on-premise, which can be replicated to another site. It's a very effective solution, and we prioritize both the FTO and the FTO.""The solution's instant recovery feature is good and allows you to capture and copy individual files.""Its interface is designed to be intuitive and it also offers seamless integration with VMware storage, additionally enhancing its ease of use.""The solution is quite easy to configure.""The tool is fast and trustworthy.""It provides a much better user experience compared to other vendors. It works faster as well.""Veeam Data Platform copies data very efficiently."

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Cons
"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 only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup.""We would like to see the pricing drop a bit.""The product's index master feature needs improvement.""There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity.""We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs.""Dell PowerProtect DP needs to include more features and improve backup for a continual base.""The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."

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"Apart from security improvements, enhancing compatibility with various platforms and addressing limitations related to integration and verification would be beneficial.""There might be room for improvement at the plugin level, specifically concerning application plugins.""Granular-level backup is difficult.""Veeam Data Platform lacks cyber security tools.""The solution’s scalability could be improved.""Enhancing the level of automation in IT processes would be beneficial.""It would be beneficial if it could expand its coverage to support Frostbox and provide greater flexibility for service providers to recommend backup solutions based on customer preferences in prospective environments.""SureBackup is sometimes a bit difficult to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing is billed on a monthly basis. Dell is bundled so that when you order IDPA, you get everything together with the license."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "It is a cost-effective solution."
  • "We have a perpetual license. It is a capacity-based license."
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  • "The product must improve its pricing."
  • "It is an affordable solution."
  • "Veeam has a ten-license package gives you two physical and two virtual servers you can use on any endpoint."
  • "The solution provides flexible licensing options."
  • "The price is affordable."
  • "The pricing is reasonable."
  • "I acknowledge there are concerns about pricing, specifically in gaining more customers for VM. We've encountered difficulties in convincing them due to pricing issues. So, I rate it a six."
  • "The tool is reasonably priced for the quality it provides."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance.
    Top Answer:As a distributor and reseller, getting the best price is important. We are currently enjoying good discounts as a platinum partner, but I would like to see if we can get an even better deal. This… more »
    Top Answer:The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup.
    Top Answer:Veeam Data Platform copies data very efficiently.
    Top Answer:The solution's licensing is relatively simple. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten.
    Top Answer:Veeam Data Platform lacks cyber security tools. The solution's competitors, Rubrik and Cohesity, have much better tools for analyzing data to determine whether there has been a cyber attack.
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    Also Known As
    Dell EMC IDPA, Dell IDPA, EMC IDPA
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    Overview

    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.

    Veeam Data Platform is a collection of products and services that work together to provide a comprehensive data protection and management solution.

    Veeam Data Platform is delivering Data Security, Data Recovery and Data Freedom to your entire hybrid environment, including cloud, virtual and physical workloads. Available in three powerful, enterprise-grade editions.

    Sample Customers
    Under Armour, Christian Brothers University, Presidio
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    Buyer's Guide
    Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Veeam Data Platform
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Veeam Data Platform and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews while Veeam Data Platform is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 25 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2, while Veeam Data Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Data Platform writes "Offers data security measures including offsite backups, encryption, and redundancy features and responsive and effective customer support". Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veeam Data Platform is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Microsoft DPM, UrBackup and HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery. See our Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) vs. Veeam Data Platform report.

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