Compare Microsoft DPM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The user interface is very good. The reporting and monitoring features are also good." "The most valuable feature is the recovery." "Its capability to give a BMR for all the workstations that I want to connect to." "The solution backs up Microsoft workloads as well as anything on the market." "It has an application backup, a file backup, a system backup and a hypervisor." "The initial setup is quite straightforward." "The most valuable feature is that DPM has an index so individual files can be searched." "The automated procedure is quite good for us, as it is able to capture all of the information that we require." | "It helps with process restoration. With Veeam, we never had backup or restoration issues." "It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days." "We get a lot of features with Veeam and we are happy to use this solution. After shutdown, the servers here automatically turn off and Veeam is keeping up all this. It's tension free work." "Very flexible, all-in-one solution." "The whole replication aspect of the solution is excellent because it compresses the data so well." "The user interface is good and it is very easy to use." "Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure." "Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data." |
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"The data tagging feature needs improvement. The solution could be a bit more intuitive in certain aspects." "We can't take a snapshot and take it outside, which is a problem." "The user friendliness could be improved." "There is a very poor online user community in terms of people blogging about their experiences with DPM." "Compatibility and integration with other products needs improvement." "The user interface can be improved quite a bit." "Additional Hyper-V knowledge would be great." "Management reporting could be improved." | "I would like to see a storage application in the next version of the product." "I would like for them to develop the ability to fix the way it does backups. We can't pick a backup for one database. We have to do a backup on the whole Exchange VM. I'd like for them to change it to where we can do individual backups." "We try to compare Veeam with other solutions because we are the operations. Then we can give the answers for improvement which is the specific additional system features that other solutions provide." "Needs better integration with cloud service providers." "It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there." "I would like to have the capability of backing up a physical machine, as opposed to just a VM." "Multithreading of health check process: This can take too much time to process on large jobs and/or large VMs." "Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
Information Not Available | "The price is slightly higher than its competitors." "The pricing is good and affordable." "The product is competitively priced." "The price of Veeam is much lower than the IBM solution." "We have increased our scalability while being able to free up senior resources from recovery activities. I estimate our overall savings to about $20,000 per year." "Veeam is more reasonably priced than some competing products." "My understanding is that it is a fairly small price point." "Its software solution has a fee." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four… more » Top Answer: Both can be used to run a backup/replication. In the case of Veeam it's a backup software that can be used to set up your data protection policies: what to backup (data set, save set, etc.), how often… more » Top Answer: Veeam has a very easy to use interface both for my Company as a CSP as well as for our customers. There are tons of training material online and more often than not, support is not needed as solutions… more » |
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Views 4,454 Comparisons 3,310 Reviews 8 Average Words per Review 530 Rating 7.4 | Views 67,947 Comparisons 54,799 Reviews 28 Average Words per Review 414 Rating 8.6 |
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Also Known As | |
| DPM, Data Protection Manager | Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam Availability Suite |
Learn | |
| Microsoft | Veeam Software |
Overview | |
| Data Protection Manager (DPM) is an enterprise backup system. Using DPM you can backup (copy) data from a source location to a target secondary location. If original data is unavailable because of planned or unexpected issues, you can restore data from the secondary location. Using DPM you can 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. | Veeam® Availability Suite™ delivers something fundamentally different — Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ — leveraging IT investments in server virtualization, modern storage and the cloud to help organizations meet today’s service-level objectives, enabling recovery of any IT service and related applications and data within seconds and minutes. https://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html |
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Learn more about Microsoft DPM | Learn more about Veeam Backup & Replication |
Sample Customers | |
| Medical Park, Centropol Energy, a.s., NCFE, D & H Distributing, Metalor, Colosseum, a.s., Sanitas S.A., Icebreaker | Vodafone, American Standard Brands, Welch’s, University of Florida, Tata Global Beverages Limited, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, MacLean-Fogg Company |
Top Industries | |
Computer Software Company30% Comms Service Provider18% Government7% Educational Organization6% | Financial Services Firm15% Government10% Energy/Utilities Company9% Healthcare Company8% Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider22% Government6% Media Company5% |
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Small Business42% Midsize Enterprise33% Large Enterprise25% | Small Business43% Midsize Enterprise25% Large Enterprise32% Small Business20% Midsize Enterprise30% Large Enterprise50% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft DPM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
455,301 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Microsoft DPM is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery Software with 8 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery Software with 34 reviews. Microsoft DPM is rated 7.4, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft DPM writes "Good recovery functionality, however lacks an online community and is not a turn-key solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Integrates Between Server and Replication Station". Microsoft DPM is most compared with Commvault, Veeam Agent for Linux, Veritas Backup Exec, Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Rubrik, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Rubrik, Nakivo, Cohesity DataProtect, Acronis Backup and VMware SRM. See our Microsoft DPM vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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