Microsoft DPM and FalconStor CDP are prominent players in data protection, each presenting unique strengths tailored to different operational needs. Microsoft DPM gains favor with its competitive pricing and robust support, particularly within Windows environments, while FalconStor CDP justifies its premium through enhanced features.
Features: Microsoft DPM is notable for its seamless Windows integration, comprehensive data protection, and efficient recovery processes. FalconStor CDP provides continuous data protection, real-time data replication, and broad platform compatibility, appealing to diverse systems requiring robust data resilience.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft DPM offers straightforward deployment, especially in Windows settings, with the added benefit of direct Microsoft support. FalconStor CDP provides deployment flexibility across multiple platforms, complemented by responsive service, addressing varied customer needs effectively.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM delivers a cost-effective solution, particularly advantageous for Windows-based setups, promising favorable returns. FalconStor CDP, though initially more expensive, offers substantial long-term ROI owing to its comprehensive features designed for extensive data protection.
FalconStor Continuous Data Protector is a disk-based backup and recovery solution that is part of the FalconStor Data Mastery platform and provides comprehensive data protection functions such as mirroring, snapshots, journaling, remote replication, and automated disaster recovery (DR) from an application service perspective, freeing IT administrators to meet business protection demands in heterogeneous environments
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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