Microsoft DPM and Oracle Data Guard compete in data protection. Microsoft DPM is preferred for its pricing and strong support, while Oracle Data Guard attracts with its advanced features and reliability.
Features: Microsoft DPM integrates well with Windows environments, offers efficient data recovery, and supports a variety of workloads. Oracle Data Guard provides high availability, disaster recovery, real-time data synchronization, and advanced data management for environments needing rigorous data consistency.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft DPM could enhance its capabilities beyond Microsoft ecosystems, improve cross-platform support, and offer advanced recovery options. Oracle Data Guard can improve by simplifying configuration, reducing the steep learning curve, and lowering costs to increase accessibility for smaller businesses.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Data Guard requires thorough Oracle product knowledge and has a longer deployment time but benefits from detailed documentation. Microsoft DPM offers easier setup through its integration with Microsoft systems and is known for responsive customer service. Oracle offers extensive resources tailored to enterprise needs.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft DPM is cost-effective initially, suitable for smaller organizations or those with budget constraints. Oracle Data Guard, though more costly, provides significant ROI due to its advanced features and enhanced data management. Microsoft DPM appeals to those seeking basic coverage, whereas Oracle Data Guard is favored by organizations that emphasize robust, long-term data protection.
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."
Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.
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