Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) vs. Cove Data Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
Score 7.9 out of 10
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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.N/A
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Cove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)Cove Data Protection
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)Cove Data Protection
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCove offers one flat rate per server or workstation and one flat per-user price for Microsoft 365, with cloud storage included. Each license carries a defined amount of included storage that is pooled across an MSPs customers, so smaller devices that use less can offset larger ones.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)Cove Data Protection
Considered Both Products
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
Chose Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
Veeam Backup & Replication
Chose Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
We selected it simply because it is less expensive than the competition, but yet just as good. We saw no reason to go outside the walls of Microsoft for this task. We are satisfied with the product.
Chose Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
I think they're very good tools, but Data Protector has lots of client options, while with Microsoft Data Protection Manager the focus is windows. But, Microsoft Data Protection Manager is much better in a virtual machine (Hyper-V world) and windows servers. If this is your …
Cove Data Protection
Chose Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection compares well against Veeam, as it provides a cloud-first option to save data, reducing worries of ransomware locking out the backup target. Additionally, whereas Veeam is an image-based backup, Cove provides file-based backup which can make restoration of …
Chose Cove Data Protection
Cove is able to cover all aspects of backup in a single package. From the same dashboard I can check servers, workstations, and even Office 365. Cove is a much better solution in terms of overall management for a company such as ours. It also provides integration options with …
Chose Cove Data Protection
We had a huge partner that let us discover this great service provider.
The target is the same as the other vendors, but SolarWinds wins with the dashboard. with the dashboard n-able you can monitor everything starting from the state of the backups of an important server.. …
Chose Cove Data Protection
We prefer N-able as it seems more secure and also easier to recover the backups.
Chose Cove Data Protection
Provide storage infrastructure which Veeam didn't provide with their software. For us that is a major point.
Chose Cove Data Protection
Works well. Easy to use. If you use Ncentral, it's already tied in and even easier to deploy. Cloud storage is more expensive than competitors. There is no easy option to offload your backups to AWS, etc. It can create a local speed vault to have local backups as well. …
Chose Cove Data Protection
So the live recovery of VEEAM is awfully nice, and it's GUI is laid out and easy to use. Windows Server Backup is about a bare-bones as it gets. It's been my experience that Solarwinds Backup just wins at every turn. It's fast, easy to deploy (well, if using N-central), and …
Chose Cove Data Protection
We started with Vision Works many years ago then went to IASO/GFI. After working with them for a couple of years we got tired of un-kept promises and poor service so we moved to Solarwinds and have been very happy with them in all scenarios. The product goes in as it is …
Chose Cove Data Protection
I did not make the decision to purchase Solarwinds Backup.
Chose Cove Data Protection
Solarwinds Backup provides the most comprehensive backup system. After testing all other systems the weaknesses of Solarwinds Backup are much less severe or risky compared to others. As well the overall cost of Solarwinds Backup's value is the main reason for choosing …
Chose Cove Data Protection
Technically, Datto is a better option for business continuity and local backups. However, we considered using Solarwinds Backup for redundancy because it's a simple cloud backup solution that has good deduplication. Personally, I believe that the Datto offsite transfer process …
Chose Cove Data Protection
I have used in the past EVault, Datto, Veeam, Veritas etc. The lower cost compares to Veeam and EVault. Easier to manage than Datto. More reliable than Veritas.
Chose Cove Data Protection
Easy and Quick installation, Cloud-Always backup , very good and generous retention options, verification testing options, ...
Features
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)Cove Data Protection
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
8.0
Ratings
6% below category average
Cove Data Protection
9.5
Ratings
11% above category average
Universal recovery9.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Instant recovery9.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Recovery verification7.10 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Business application protection8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Snapshots9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Flexible deployment7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Management dashboard7.10 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Platform support8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Retention options6.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Encryption6.90 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)Cove Data Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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10.0
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Usability
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9.7
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Support Rating
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9.8
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User Testimonials
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)Cove Data Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for domain disaster recovery. I would avoid considering it for remote or non-domain disaster recovery. While it claims to have the ability, and we have used it this way for years, it often loses it's connection to the DPM server for no apparent reason, and has to be reconfigured. It doesn't always seem to work
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Solarwinds Backup is ideal for individuals looking to keep a consistent backup of devices in their environment. We used it primarily for networking equipment. It is easy to set up, as it is one of the steps available when adding a new device to solarwinds. It is probably not an ideal product to use for long-term (1 month+) backups.
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Pros
  • Clustered Hyper-V VM backup and restore.
  • Easy to have multiple restore points.
  • Can back up different workloads with the same solution.
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  • Daily backups are easy to create and activate and run on schedule as desired by the client.
  • Easy SQL backups no matter your SQL favor, it's just a few clicks to back them up.
  • Very good system state backups that several of our older clients have used (out of necessity) to recover systems and data from dead machines.
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Cons
  • Remote and non-domain backups could be simplified.
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  • To perform restores on a different location, there's a need to install a standalone application call the Recovery Console, which makes it too much trouble. Instead, this should have been performed over the same backup management portal, where you should have been able to select in which location you want to restore.
  • The business continuity features, available for the system state backups, like restoring a backup as a virtual machine or performing a bare-metal restore, also require to install different standalone applications for each. And in disaster scenarios, both tasks take too much time to get everything running.
  • The retention of the backups (the archiving feature) needs to be set up individually for each server at a time, when this is something that should be more easily managed by the service provider (not expecting to be set up by the customer in each device) as a general setting within the Backups Profiles or Product Management.
  • There should be a better reporting tool, that would allow to export backup and restore events, as well as user activities.
  • The configurations for Backup Profiles and Product Management could be redundant and confusing.
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Usability
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Cove Data Protection is very usable as it's easy to tell that it is made to not only do backup very well, but it's also easy to deploy. The agent-based deployment allows for flexible deployment options while ensuring a minimal amount of manual work is needed on the dashboard end. Recovery is also very easy, especially as it relates to one-off file recovery
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Support Rating
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We have an Italian support partner, they are been very good b7y the first moment.
All the partners are followed with a lot of attention, even the little ones.
there is a site where you can learn everything, the single parts of the product are described perfectly.
Every it specialist should evaluate it.
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Alternatives Considered
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Solarwinds Backup provides the most comprehensive backup system. After testing all other systems the weaknesses of Solarwinds Backup are much less severe or risky compared to others. As well the overall cost of Solarwinds Backup's value is the main reason for choosing Solarwinds Backup as the primary backup/DR provider.
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced recovery time
  • Fast backup
  • Complete interface
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  • I can't speak to every dollar and cent involved, but I can tell you that the daily task of checking backup status has changed from at least an hour just to check VEEAM and Windows Backup statuses for multiple clients, to checking two pages and then digging into any problems. So as far as productivity goes, it's been wonderful!
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