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As business-critical applications are developed and deployed on the OpenShift platform, organizations need to protect these applications and the application 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 another 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. Dell Technologies offers proper protection for OpenShift, including the unique complexities that come with it. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager offers a centralized platform to protect OpenShift workloads. PowerProtect Data Manager ensures HA and consistent and reliable backup and restore of workloads.
PowerProtect Data Manager protects OpenShift Kubernetes workloads, ensuring that data is easy to back up and restore and remains available, consistent, and durable in a Kubernetes workload or disaster recovery situation. PowerProtect Data Manager provides a centralized management UI where 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 about PowerProtect Data Manager, see Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager.
For detailed information including deployment instructions for PowerProtect Data Manager, see PowerProtect Data Manager: Protecting OpenShift Workloads