IBM Spectrum Protect and Microsoft DPM compete in the backup and disaster recovery category. IBM Spectrum Protect appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and superior external integration capabilities compared to Microsoft DPM.
Features: IBM Spectrum Protect offers disaster recovery management, incremental backups, and deduplication, along with node replication and scalability across different platforms with minimal upgrades needed. Microsoft DPM is valued for backing up and recovering data, especially for Microsoft workloads, but lacks the advanced features and external integration offered by IBM Spectrum Protect.
Room for Improvement: Users of IBM Spectrum Protect frequently request a more intuitive GUI, improved cloud integration, and simpler management. Enhancements in reporting features are also sought. Microsoft DPM users suggest improving third-party product support, user-friendliness, and comprehensive troubleshooting and reporting features to better handle integrations with non-Microsoft products.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Spectrum Protect requires extensive expertise for its intricate setup process, though it provides robust management once deployed. Customer service is mixed, with technical support being responsive but initial contact sometimes slow. Microsoft DPM is easier to deploy in Microsoft-centric environments and offers a straightforward support experience within its ecosystem.
Pricing and ROI: IBM Spectrum Protect is known for its complex and potentially costly licensing structure, making it more suitable for larger enterprises. While its capabilities are extensive, Microsoft DPM presents a cost-effective alternative, offering integration benefits for Microsoft ecosystem users with minimal additional fees, appealing more to cost-sensitive organizations.
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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