Eon vs. Dell PowerProtect

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.

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

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

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

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