We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and NAKIVO Backup & Replication 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."Dell PowerProtect Data Manager helps to reduce the amount of data being transferred and stored."
"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."
"It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."
"The deduplication is the most valuable feature because it helps to control the overhead."
"One notable feature is its robust backup support for Kubernetes and container environments. Additionally, PPDM stands out for its ease of deployment and management compared to other backup solutions. It is highly user-friendly, allowing users to quickly learn and implement backup and restore processes within a week. PPDM represents the next generation of backup software and is comparable to offerings from other vendors. Furthermore, PPDM prioritizes security with various access controls, such as user and database access controls. Its deployment tool is also known for its simplicity."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"I would say flexibility is the most important feature of the product. The performance and speed are the best on the market."
"The solution adequately handles data storage."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"Cloud integration is valuable because the ability to not only backup locally, but to the cloud, has been a great addition to the already fantastic product."
"We have found all the features of Nakivo to be useful and the solution is easier to use compared to Proxmox. It is user-friendly, we are very satisfied."
"The ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"You can have it setup and running within a few minutes."
"Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy."
"This solution was surprisingly easy to configure."
"We are able to take backups on a regular interval and restore data/VMs as we choose making the process work as advertised."
"Management is difficult and it is hard to determine when things aren't working properly."
"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."
"PPDM requires further development. It is primarily integrated with DevOps systems."
"The Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager reports could improve. There should be different kinds of reports on failures, such as dashboards that we can submit to top management or auditors."
"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."
"The interface is too complex."
"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."
"There is always room for improvement. The compression ratio should be improved as well as the efficiency."
"When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside."
"It would be great if they had a Let's Encrypt integration."
"It could be a little bit faster in terms of backup and offer more reliable SQL server backups."
"It would be good if I could have a remote upgrade of our Synology Transporters, but the manual upgrade is easy and no problem at all."
"I would love to see BackBlaze B2 implementation in the future, as that would be our preferred cloud destination, but Amazon and Wasabi are both very great choices in the meantime."
"I would like to see some additional models in the next release to make backups more functional."
"Using an independent bootable media to restore full physical machines would enable physical machines that may be serving as Nakivo Director or Transport machines to be reliably restored to service without undue delay, ensuring that an enterprise's local environment remains intact."
"Integrations maybe helpful for NAKIVO. I think end-to-end backup and user backup will be useful to have. The price could be reduced as well. I also think that AD integration should be more available."
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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is rated 7.8, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect Data Manager writes "A tool that offers good capacity management and product management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is most compared with Dell Avamar, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker and Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and N-able Cove Data Protection. See our Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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