We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and Microsoft DPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"In our recent experiences, Acronis Cyber Protect proved most valuable during instances of colleagues facing migration challenges due to ransomware impacts. In these situations, where servers and backups were affected, having a backup stored in external drives or other devices within our data centers posed risks. To address this vulnerability, we decided to shift to a cloud backup solution."
"For my first experience, it is the best software for backups, especially for a five-system backup."
"The interface is easy to use. They keep on adding new features. Acronis recently added multi-platform support."
"Acronis has a very rich functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that it backs up my systems transparently in the background, and I'm not even conscious of it."
"There is advanced management where we can do passing, software inventory, and hardware inventory."
"The most valuable feature is that DPM has an index so individual files can be searched."
"I like the core backup feature. I also like the file server backup feature. I find Microsoft DPM interesting because it has fantastic integration with Microsoft products. For example, in Exchange and SharePoint, DPM is excellent when it comes to backing up data. It also does a decent job with open-source products."
"The most valuable feature is the recovery."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"I could back up all the stuff we had, even the VMs we have for Hyper V."
"It has an application backup, a file backup, a system backup and a hypervisor."
"The solution backs up Microsoft workloads as well as anything on the market."
"It is almost perfect for Microsoft products. It is not a very powerful tool, but it is okay for small sites and small businesses with Microsoft products. It is easy to use for backup and restore. It is good for backing up Microsoft servers such as Exchange and SharePoint servers."
"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."
"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."
"The backing up of virtual machines in VMware and Nutanix needs better integration and the performance of the solution needs improvement."
"For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain."
"I have no suggestions for improvements as I have only used the product for a month and have yet to really discover all of its aspects."
"The new version has anti-malware and software management features, but these features should be enhanced. It is working as an exclusive solution along with the backup and recovery."
"It would be better if they made it easier to obtain images for laptops and desktops. It isn't easy right now to have many different types of desktop computers. This is because Microsoft is changing a lot of things in Windows 10."
"In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule."
"It needs portability for other vendors. It is good for backing up Microsoft servers, but it doesn't support third-party solutions such as Oracle Database. It depends on Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy, especially for Hyper-V, which has a lot of problems. They should enhance the Volume Shadow Copy functionality. Its reporting should also be better. Reporting is too weak in DPM."
"Microsoft DPM could improve if it was available in a public or private cloud."
"We can't take a snapshot and take it outside, which is a problem."
"Additional Hyper-V knowledge would be great."
"The user friendliness could be improved."
"It would be better if it integrated seamlessly with open source and competitor products. In the next release, I would like to see some data governance frameworks. It should have support features for data integration and data replication like Veeam. Right now, we are also using Veeam for certain scenarios."
"The user interface can be improved quite a bit."
"Compatibility and integration with other products needs improvement."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Microsoft DPM is ranked 28th in Backup and Recovery with 17 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Microsoft DPM is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft DPM writes "Good for backing up, but the 2019 version lags". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Microsoft DPM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure Backup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Commvault Cloud and Oracle Data Guard. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Microsoft DPM report.
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