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We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Backup vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client. You can schedule it as you like. You can also control the bandwidth, so the backup will not utilize. The internet will depend on the bandwidth.""When it comes to Azure Backup, the advantage is that it's native and it's very easy to configure. We don't require a separate tool or manage something on a separate server. At the backend, it's managed by Microsoft itself, and we don't need to manage it.""One of the most valuable features is security and connectivity to the data.""The best aspect of the solution is its backup functionality.""The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is easy to create a backup by using Azure Backup. It also has a good user interface and nice features for sending notifications when any backup fails or there is a change in the status of virtual machines.""The MARS agent makes it easy to use.""The tool has a lot of features.""The backup features are very useful."

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"The product is integrated with Huawei software and its backup and recovery time is very fast.""The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data.""The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate.""IDPA's best feature is Turbo Boost Technology. The compression and duplication features are excellent, too.""Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable.""We use it for complete backup and recovery. We have multiple clients and have created multiple large virtual capabilities and zoning backlogs.""The solution is strong.""It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."

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Cons
"It still does not have a lot of customization, especially if your workloads are not in Azure.""The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes.""Lacks an AI system that would enable easier upgrading of the hardware.""I would like to see more automation, integration, and security. The price could be better.""I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often.""I would like to see better integration with more products, and more services.""They need to improve the frequency of the backup. You can only backup one to three times a day. It would be better to back up continuously throughout the day.""It can be further improved by continuously meeting its compliance requirements."

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"I would like to see integration with Dell EMC's Cloud Tier.""We would like to see the pricing drop a bit.""After resizing and compression, the system continuously runs out of space. Dell EMC doesn't do automatic cleanup or other things, so we constantly have to manually go in there or work with Dell support on this. The solution has not been working as advertised.""The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive.""There is room for improvement in terms of network connectivity.""We cannot add IDPA to DPC, and each IP has a DP Central, which cannot monitor other IDPAs.""The product's index master feature needs improvement.""Managing the product is a little bit complicated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing of this solution is ok, but I'm expecting that the price will decrease in the future."
  • "The pricing of this solution is good, and it is one of the easiest things that you can sell Azure with."
  • "This is an expensive solution in the Bangladesh marketplace."
  • "We are paying about $100,000 USD per year, just for a couple of servers."
  • "The price is pretty good, maybe $30 for a machine, I can't complain."
  • "It is a bit costly initially, but it is well worth it in the long run, especially for fighting against a number of threats, such as ransomware, which the IT industry is facing."
  • "Price-wise, it's similar to AWS."
  • "The price is somewhat high and could be lower."
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  • "The licensing is billed on a monthly basis. Dell is bundled so that when you order IDPA, you get everything together with the license."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "It is a cost-effective solution."
  • "We have a perpetual license. It is a capacity-based license."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Veeam… more »
    Top Answer:It is a stable solution...The product is worth the money you pay for it.
    Top Answer:Azure Backup is a product that is priced at a cheap rate, and it is a great tool. The product is worth the money you pay for it.
    Top Answer:What I find valuable about Dell PowerProtect IDPA is its stability and strong performance.
    Top Answer:As a distributor and reseller, getting the best price is important. We are currently enjoying good discounts as a platinum partner, but I would like to see if we can get an even better deal. This… more »
    Top Answer:The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup.
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    Also Known As
    Dell EMC IDPA, Dell IDPA, EMC IDPA
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    Overview

    Azure Backup is a scalable backup solution with zero capital investment and minimal operational expenses that can help a company achieve maximal data protection. Azure Backup’s System Center Data Protection Manager provides optional integrations that can enable you to protect both advanced workloads running in your datacenter in VMs as well as those that are on physical servers.

    Azure Backup has many features that make it a most effective product. Included among these is its ability to easily scale up your storage capacity. It taps into the cloud to give you the ability to expand on a massive scale. This can be done without any monitoring or maintenance overhead.

    Benefits of Azure Backup

    Some of the benefits of using Azure Backup include:

    • The ability to control and track the performance of your network from a single centralized location. Azure Backup has a “single pane of glass” interface that enables users to monitor, operate, govern, and analyze their backups from one place. This eliminates any need to add additional management infrastructure. You can manage different workload types, subscriptions, vaults, and regions with Azure’s Backup Center.

    • A wide array of security features allows you to prevent malicious users from doing damage to the system, receive alerts if an unauthorized action takes place, and recover from any damage that results. Azure Backup has authentication requirements built in to protect vital functions, such as the ability to delete backed up data from unauthorized users. If something that impacts the backed up data takes place, users are immediately notified. Azure Backup saves any and all deleted backup data for two weeks. This enables administrators to use recovery points to recover their lost data.

    Reviews from Real Users

    There are a number of characteristics that make Azure Backup extremely effective. Two of these are the flexibility that it offers users and its overall effectiveness.

    PeerSpot user Ayman Y., an IT manager at NOMAC, notes all of the different backup options that Azure Backup offers. He writes, “It has many features. First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client as you like. You can do a backup from the whole virtual machine as an image. You can do a backup only from files and folders. It has every option. All options are available for the backup, for the restore, for the bandwidth utilization to do backups, even virtual machines or a physical machine. If you need to do a backup of the whole image from the virtual machine, all these options are there.”

    PeerSpot user Muzammil M., a senior operations engineer at the AlGosaibi Group, notes the effectiveness of Azure Backup when he writes, “Azure Backup is good because it is entirelycloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe. This is the reason that I suggest its use for companies that need to back up critical data.”

    The PowerProtect DP series appliances is the integrated appliance solution from the Dell data protection appliances portfolio.

    PowerProtect DP series appliance: Simple, efficient and agile data protection

    The DP series is an all-in-one backup appliance that reduces the complexity of managing multiple data silos, point solutions and vendor relationships. The DP series simplifies deployment and management—while delivering powerful, enterprise-grade data protection capabilities for small, mid-size and enterprise organizations at a low cost-to-protect. 

    It is an integrated solution that offers complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration — plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery (DR) and long-term retention (LTR) to the cloud — all in a single appliance. 

    With the DP series, customers reduce their time-to-protect and become more agile with a solution that’s fast, protected more efficiently, can be recovered quickly and is reliable.

    Simple to deploy, scale and manage 

    The DP series enables organizations to protect a broad ecosystem of applications quickly with a single system management console, consolidating workload protection, and eliminating infrastructure or data sprawl. The easy-to-use System Manager simplifies backups and automates daily tasks, including monitoring, management, reporting, analytics and search. The DP series delivers all-in-one data protection: protection storage and software, search and advanced monitoring and analytics, combined with cloud extensibility. It offers integration with VMware, SQL and Oracle management tools so that admins can use familiar UIs. 

    Powerful cloud, performance and efficiency 

    The DP series can scale to fit the needs of enterprises with the ability to protect up to 195 PB (logical) of data to the public, private or hybrid clouds with Cloud Tier, with no additional hardware.7 Plus, native Cloud DR with end-to-end orchestration allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from on-premises DP series environments to the public cloud with AWS, Azure, or VMware Cloud on AWS —3 clicks to failover and 2 clicks to failback. 

    The DP series provides support for modern applications like MongoDB and MySQL and is optimized for VMware. It provides fast, single-step recovery of individual files, dynamic policies for VMs as well as complete VMware images, which can be instantly accessed and migrated live from the DP series appliance back to the production environment (using vMotion) while still running, further simplifying and optimizing VM recovery. Plus, instantly access up to 64 VMs with up to 60,000 IOPS to meet the strictest SLAs. 

    Data protection search simplifies file-level-recovery (FLR) activities with an easy-to-use search interface. The DP series is also built on the industry-proven Data Invulnerability Architecture (DIA), for encryption, fault detection, and healing.

    Sample Customers
    Russell Reynolds Associates, Somerset County Council, Kardem, PCL Construction
    Under Armour, Christian Brothers University, Presidio
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Construction Company11%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Retailer25%
    Logistics Company13%
    Reseller13%
    Media Company13%
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    Educational Organization28%
    Government9%
    Computer Software Company9%
    University7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise35%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise46%
    Large Enterprise31%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise49%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Backup vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA)
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Backup vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 8.0, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Easy to install, performs well, and the technical support is helpful ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) writes "The product comes bundled with a host of useful solutions that help one centralize their work". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik and Dell NetWorker. See our Azure Backup vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) report.

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