We performed a comparison between Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and OpenText Data Protector 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."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."
"It's the perfect solution for virtual and container directives. The data reduction feature works well, and we haven't had any issues."
"Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager is user-friendly and easy to use. it does what it needs to do."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Dell PowerProtect Data Manager helps to reduce the amount of data being transferred and stored."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"It works excellently only with Oracle."
"Data Protector is quite simple and easy to deploy. The deployment is always the same. It's on a server, and the agents are deployed to the machines in a straightforward way. We have two engineers who deploy and manage all our backup solutions."
"Ability to automatically detect and secure new data sources without requiring manual configuration intervention."
"Deduplication implementation with CAPA is very good."
"The dashboards in Micro Focus Data Protector are very good. They are similar to the dashboards in Veeam Backup & Replication."
"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."
"Data Protector's GUI is the most useful feature."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The initial setup process for the solution is easy."
"You need to use additional software to back up entire environments. It will be good if they could support entire tape libraries."
"The interface is too complex."
"As a new product, there are some things that still need to improve a bit as it matures."
"A lot of improvement is required in Dell's first level of support."
"They should include a feature similar to S3 bucket."
"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."
"Management is difficult and it is hard to determine when things aren't working properly."
"Virtualization."
"The graphical interface needs to be improved."
"The Micro Focus Data Protector support is not as good as Veeam Backup & Replication's support."
"We face challenges with its stability."
"I do not think that this solution is relevant in the current IT market. They have not upgraded their features and functionalities which makes it difficult for them to remain competitive."
"We have a lot of requests for the Micro Focus team, particularly in terms of the Japanese data pattern, as it's not as good now. The Japanese data pattern accuracy of the Micro Focus Data Protector needs to be improved because there are a lot of false negatives and false positives. We are currently testing this and our product team has been communicating with the Micro Focus team."
"The new backup systems are using new mechanisms for the recovery phases; for example, VM, recovery and testing the backup before recovering it. These features are not available in Data Protector."
"The online backups of Office 365 have room for improvement. This is now available for the Exchange Online part of Office 365, but we're still waiting for SharePoint Online, Teams, etc. We know that it's coming, but it takes time."
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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is ranked 25th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while OpenText Data Protector is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 100 reviews. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is rated 7.8, while OpenText Data Protector is rated 7.6. 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 OpenText Data Protector writes "User-friendly, competitive, agent-based, and easy to manage". 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 OpenText Data Protector is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce and Symantec Data Loss Prevention. See our Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs. OpenText Data Protector report.
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