IBM ProtectTIER and Microsoft DPM are data protection and disaster recovery solutions. While IBM ProtectTIER is favored for its storage optimization, Microsoft DPM leads in Microsoft environment integration, providing smoother operations for Windows networks.
Features: IBM ProtectTIER stands out for automatic workload movement across storage tiers, efficient cataloging with incremental backups, and strong data deduplication that optimizes storage. Microsoft DPM is well-regarded for its seamless integration with Microsoft products, providing solid backup capabilities for Exchange and SharePoint, and an effective two-layer backup system offering improved data protection.
Room for Improvement: IBM ProtectTIER could enhance its integration capabilities with non-IBM systems, improve user interface experience, and simplify its deployment process in smaller setups. Microsoft DPM can improve stability in newer versions, expand its backup features for non-Microsoft technologies, and address synchronization failures to enhance reliability.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM ProtectTIER is intended for enterprise scale, requiring detailed configuration but is supported by dedicated services. Microsoft DPM facilitates easier deployment with built-in support for Windows, complemented by robust community resources. Despite IBM's thorough support, Microsoft DPM's deployment ease within Windows networks enhances its appeal.
Pricing and ROI: IBM ProtectTIER involves a higher initial cost, justified by long-term ROI through substantial storage savings. Microsoft DPM offers competitive pricing, particularly for existing System Center customers, effectively reducing ongoing costs and resulting in faster ROI in Windows-based environments.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Microsoft DPM | 0.9% |
| IBM ProtectTIER | 0.6% |
| Other | 98.5% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 3 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 3 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 9 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers industry-leading inline deduplication performance and scalability up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system, and can provide up to 25 PB or more backup storage capacity. Combined with IBM or third-party storage, TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway provides a powerful disk-based repository to improve the performance, retention and availability of backup and archive data in a small footprint for energy and cost efficiency.
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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