Microsoft DPM and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus compete in data protection. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus stands out with its robust features, while Microsoft DPM offers cost efficiency and support.
Features: Microsoft DPM integrates well with Microsoft environments, providing efficient backup for Microsoft applications and regular VM migrations. It offers a comprehensive range of backups including files, applications, and hypervisors. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus showcases comprehensive support across various platforms and excellent data retention, alongside solid integration with databases like Oracle, SQL, and IBM Db2.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft DPM faces challenges in scalability and consistent synchronization, which could impact larger organizations. Its user interface can be enhanced for a smoother experience. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus could improve by simplifying its setup process and reducing initial costs. More streamlined updates could also be beneficial for usability in diverse environments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft DPM provides straightforward deployment in Microsoft-based infrastructures with responsive customer service, easing issue resolution. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, despite a slightly intricate setup due to broad compatibility, offers extensive support to assist with deployment, ensuring a seamless integration process.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM is attractive for budget-conscious users due to its lower initial costs, potentially offering solid ROI for small businesses. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, requiring a higher upfront investment, is justified by its extensive feature set and flexibility, promising higher ROI for companies needing complex data solutions.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection and availability solution for virtual environments that can be deployed in minutes and protect your environment within an hour. It simplifies data protection, whether data is hosted in physical, virtual, software-defined or cloud environments. It can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or integrate with your IBM Spectrum Protect environment to off-load copies for long term storage and data governance with scale and 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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