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Organizations must protect the business-critical applications that are developed and deployed on the OpenShift platform and also protect their data, Protecting an OpenShift environment is not as simple as applying a traditional data backup and recovery solution to the container space. Protection for cloud-native workloads is a major challenge in container adoption.
As an innovative leader in protecting Kubernetes, Dell Technologies has evolved, innovated, and integrated with OpenShift to address the needs of the new container infrastructure, including data protection for OpenShift and the unique complexities that come with it. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager offers a centralized platform to protect OpenShift workloads.
PowerProtect Data Manager protects OpenShift Kubernetes workloads by ensuring that data is easy to back up and restore and remains available, consistent, and durable in a disaster recovery (DR) situation. PowerProtect Data Manager provides a centralized management UI in which protection policies can be defined to manage the clusters, namespaces, and other OpenShift components.
PowerProtect Data Manager provides software-defined data protection, automated discovery, deduplication, operational agility, self-service, and IT governance for physical, virtual, and cloud environments, enabling you to:
For general information, see Dell PowerProtect Data Manager.
For detailed information including deployment instructions, see PowerProtect Data Manager: Protecting OpenShift Workloads.