#1 most frequent
United States of America
46.6%291 installations of 624
What is Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)?
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is an enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Deduplication and file compression
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
Category average: 8.3
Universal recovery
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
Category average: 9
Instant recovery
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Flexible deployment
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
Category average: 8.5
Encryption
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
Category average: 9.4
Retention options
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
Category average: 9.1
Who Buys & Uses Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
19.6%122 installations of 624
#3 most frequent
Canada
5.1%32 installations of 624
DPM in a nutshell.
Pros
- Hyper-V backup /restore
- Bare-Metal backup/restore
- Good management console
Cons
- Remote and non-domain backups could be simplified.
Return on Investment
- It has saved us on licensing costs and through centralized management.
Alternatives Considered
Veeam Backup & Replication and Veritas Backup Exec
Other Software Used
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)
DPM for Windows environment
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
DPM is used by our company as a primary backup solution for virtual machines, bare metal backups, file shares and some SQL databases. We have used it for more than 4 years for short-term backups. We got it as a part of Microsoft System Center Suite.
Pros
- Clustered Hyper-V VM backup and restore.
- Easy to have multiple restore points.
- Can back up different workloads with the same solution.
Cons
- Allow long-term backups to disks.
- GUI could have improved performance.
Most Important Features
- Short-term backup and restore.
- Possible to have several restore points in the same day.
- All backups managed in a single place.
Return on Investment
- Same-day service restore when some SQL databases were corrupted.
Alternatives Considered
Veeam Backup & Replication
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Pros
- Virtual machine backup
- Point in time recovery
- Shadow copy backup
Cons
- Integration with some devices
- Web client
- Slow interface
Return on Investment
- Reduced recovery time
- Fast backup
- Complete interface
Alternatives Considered
Data Protector (formerly HP Data Protector)
Other Software Used
pfSense, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Palo Alto Panorama, Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, Microsoft BI, Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Route 53, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Web Services, MS SharePoint