Arcserve UDP and Microsoft DPM compete in data backup and recovery solutions. Arcserve UDP stands out with its advanced features like global deduplication and cloud replication, offering an edge in feature richness.
Features: Arcserve UDP supports virtual standby, offering seamless integration across platforms like Windows, Linux, Hyper-V, and VMware. Its global deduplication saves space, and its cloud replication provides robust data protection. Microsoft DPM excels in integrating with Microsoft environments, offering strong backup and recovery solutions for Exchange and SharePoint. It simplifies VM migrations and is efficient in backing up Microsoft workloads.
Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP could enhance integration with HCI solutions and add a Linux appliance. More effective tape integration and cloud interaction are desired. Microsoft DPM could improve in user-friendliness and performance in non-Microsoft environments, with enhanced external storage integration and feature expansion to compete with solutions like Veeam.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP often deploys on-premises with some hybrid use, though its technical support receives mixed reviews. Microsoft DPM is also primarily on-premises and hybrid, praised for knowledgeable support yet criticized for response times and troubleshooting complexities.
Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP is cost-effective, particularly with multi-year licenses, delivering strong ROI by reducing server investments. Microsoft DPM is cost-efficient for Microsoft customers, included in many Microsoft licenses, although its fixed pricing can be steep for smaller enterprises.
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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