We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker 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."The full backup is a great feature. Restoration is also good and very quick."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The software’s best feature is data backup for any system."
"NetWorker's most valuable feature is recovery, including the policy-based backups that can be configured."
"NetWorker has very good scalability."
"It is an extremely stable product."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"It is scalable software. All you need to increase is its RAM and CPU. It's pretty easy."
"Dell PowerProtect is stable and scalable."
"The solution is strong."
"The product is integrated with Huawei software and its backup and recovery time is very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the deduplication rate."
"IDPA's best feature is Turbo Boost Technology. The compression and duplication features are excellent, too."
"The product is easy to troubleshoot and store data."
"It backs up our Windows systems and our Linux systems and everything."
"It is very simple to perform an upgrade of the system and the environment."
"There should be total integration of the replication and cloud logistic back up on cloud."
"he API side of the solution has certain shortcomings."
"I haven't had a good experience with technical support. It takes them a very long time to resolve issues."
"I would like to see better support for the container systems, and we would like to see more support for image backups instead of pure file backups."
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure the solution."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"We have faced problems with the initial configuration of the solution."
"The only thing that could be improved would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"The two-factor authentication is missing from Dell products."
"The product's index master feature needs improvement."
"We would like to see the pricing drop a bit."
"The price could be lowered slightly, to make it more competitive."
"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."
"Managing the product is a little bit complicated."
"Dell PowerProtect DP needs to include more features and improve backup for a continual base."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery with 12 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". 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". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Rubrik and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Dell NetWorker vs. Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) report.
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