Microsoft DPM and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are competing in the backup and recovery solutions market. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup appears to hold the upper hand due to its robust feature set tailored for virtual environments.
Features: Microsoft DPM offers excellent integration with Microsoft products, backing up Exchange, SharePoint, and other Microsoft workloads. It supports Hyper-V VM & host backup with item-level restore. Scalability and stability are additional strengths. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup focuses on VM-specific protection, with quick recovery, compression, and deduplication, enhancing storage efficiency and recovery speed. It supports both VMware and Hyper-V environments with a user-friendly interface and advanced management tools.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft DPM could benefit from enhancements in its user interface and support for non-Microsoft environments. Some users report issues with the 2019 version updates affecting reliability. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could improve in areas like initial activation complexity and optimizing cost-effectiveness for smaller businesses. Additional flexibility in licensing options could also enhance their offering.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft DPM provides smooth installation for those familiar with Microsoft systems. Its longstanding support framework is a plus, yet Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is noted for its straightforward deployment in various environments and responsive customer service, providing a seamless user experience. Their support and user management tools greatly contribute to customer satisfaction.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM generally presents a more cost-effective initial setup, which appeals to budget-conscious businesses. If bundled with System Center, it can be particularly economical. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup demands a higher upfront investment but often delivers a better ROI due to its comprehensive feature set and effectiveness in virtual environments, a factor many users feel justifies the cost.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.
Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.
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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