Eon vs. Dell PowerProtect

Why Are Cloud-First Teams Choosing Eon Over Dell in 2025?

Feature Comparison:Eon vs. Dell PowerProtect

1. Deployment & Architecture

Dell’s architecture depends on PowerProtect Data Manager and associated infrastructure, which must be deployed, patched, and scaled by your team. That infrastructure runs on your cloud account, adding ongoing compute, storage, and admin costs.

Eon deploys without agents, proxies, or infrastructure — fully integrated via read-only cloud APIs, with support for AWS-native services and modern architectures.

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Deployment & Architecture
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Agentless deployment
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No extra infrastructure to deploy, manage, and pay for
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Multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
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Partial

2. Backup Posture Management

Tagging and manual policy enforcement leave gaps, especially in dynamic cloud environments. Eon closes them with:

  • Automated discovery of workloads and cloud assets
  • Real-time classification and tiering
  • CBPM (Cloud Backup Posture Management) that aligns backups to actual data sensitivity
  • Coverage validation at backup time, not just during audits
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Backup Posture Management
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Manual tagging required
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Autonomous resource discovery
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App-aware backup for enterprise apps
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SAP, SQL, Exchange

3. Recovery & Access

Dell's recovery model is largely based on bulk restore and long recovery time objectives (RTOs). Eon flips that model:

  • File-, folder-, table-, or record-level recovery
  • No need to restore full volumes or instances
  • Search across snapshots with SQL or LLMs
  • Restore what you need, when you need it — from any region, cloud, or account
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Recovery & Access
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Instant record-/file-level restore
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Global snapshot search
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Limited
Application latency after restore
Low (instant)
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Cross-Cloud Backup & Recovery
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Supports Very Large Buckets & Databases
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SaaS app protection & recovery
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4. Ransomware Protection

PowerProtect includes immutability and isolated recovery environments, but detection and rollback must be bolted on. Eon includes:

  • Native anomaly detection
  • Entropy-based file change alerts
  • Automatic clean snapshot hold
  • Guided rollback to the last known good state
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Ransomware Protection
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Immutable backups
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Cloud resource detection
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Anomaly monitoring
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Clean snapshot hold
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Snapshot rollback + clean restore tools
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Physically air-gapped backup option
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(Isolated on-prem appliance)

5. Cost & Operational Efficiency

Dell’s backup model incurs costs from infrastructure, licensing, and inefficient snapshot management. Eon removes these constraints:

  • True incremental S3 backup with no versioning bloat
  • Deduplication across all accounts and regions
  • Flat per-GB pricing with posture, classification, and detection built in
  • No hardware, agents, or support contracts to manage
  • Handles massive data volumes without rehydration delays or proxy sprawl
  • Modernizes backup access by storing snapshots as incremental Parquet for data lakes
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Cost & Efficiency
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Incremental S3 backup (no versioning)
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Cross-region deduplication
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Transparent, usage-based pricing
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Built-in data classification/search
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Transform backups into a data lake
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Optimized for Cost Savings
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