IBM ProtectTIER and Microsoft DPM compete in data protection. Microsoft DPM has a slight upper hand with its robust integration within Microsoft environments, despite IBM ProtectTIER's compelling deduplication and scalability.
Features: IBM ProtectTIER is recognized for its strong data deduplication, scalability, and improved performance through efficient storage optimization. Microsoft DPM offers comprehensive protection and disaster recovery for Microsoft applications, thriving in existing Microsoft product ecosystems. DPM's assured compatibility within Microsoft infrastructures adds significant value.
Room for Improvement: IBM ProtectTIER could enhance integration support with non-IBM products, improve user interface intuitiveness, and boost reporting features. Microsoft DPM might expand support for non-Microsoft environments, refine its user interface, and optimize resource utilization.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM ProtectTIER offers a straightforward deployment process benefited by strong technical support. Microsoft DPM provides smoother integration with Microsoft systems due to familiar deployment paths and tools, aiding efficiency in pre-existing environments.
Pricing and ROI: IBM ProtectTIER's competitive pricing offers attractive ROI through reduced infrastructure costs from advanced deduplication. Microsoft DPM might involve higher costs but delivers strong ROI for organizations invested in the Microsoft ecosystem via tight integration and comprehensive coverage, with ROI variance depending on existing infrastructure.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Microsoft DPM | 0.9% |
| IBM ProtectTIER | 0.5% |
| Other | 98.6% |
| 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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