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Applications are the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, and organizations need the flexibility to run their applications in the manner that best aligns with their business requirements. Virtualization fundamentally shifted how this flexibility was achieved, and virtualized infrastructure quickly became a standard feature of enterprise data centers. As organizations embrace cloud-native architectures and containerized workloads orchestrated by Kubernetes, we are witnessing the next evolution in application architectures.
Container technologies enable development teams to provision isolated applications quickly. Customers who want to boost their productivity and reduce the time to value can use containers with departments focused on software development.
Kubernetes orchestration provides capabilities such as auto-scaling, security, and management of containerized applications. A persistent and stable datastore is required to run containerized applications within a Kubernetes cluster that can survive a pod's lifetime or the node it is running on.
Rancher Prime is a Kubernetes management platform that simplifies cluster installation and operations. The platform can be on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge, giving the DevOps team freedom to build and run containerized applications anywhere.
Dell APEX delivers cloud services for a range of data and workload requirements, enabling you to simplify transformation, adapt to evolving conditions, and stay in control of your data. APEX is based on innovative Dell Technologies infrastructure built with Intel flexibility and performance.
APEX Cloud Services simplifies multicloud, giving you a consistent experience with robust security across your clouds for compute, data storage, and data protection.
APEX Private Cloud and APEX Hybrid Cloud deliver options to automate the deployment of modern application infrastructure with Rancher Prime to provide a production-ready Kubernetes environment. This automation enables you to leverage a consistent infrastructure operational model across your Kubernetes deployments so that you can accelerate time to cloud-native application development. With support for both traditional and cloud-native applications on the same infrastructure, you can now capitalize on the next evolution in enterprise applications.
Dell PowerProtect Data Manager enables users to protect, manage, and recover data in on-premises, virtualized, and cloud deployments. The PowerProtect Data Manager platform provides centralized governance that helps mitigate risk and assures compliance of SLAs and SLOs through protection workflows. PowerProtect Data Manager is used to discover, protect, and restore production workloads in Kubernetes environments. It protects production and development, or test workloads, to ensure that the data is easy to back up and restore.
PowerProtect Data Manager enhances protection by sending the data directly to the Dell PowerProtect DD series appliance to provide benefits from unmatched efficiency, deduplication, performance, and scalability. Together with PowerProtect Data Manager, PowerProtect DD series appliance is the ultimate protection storage appliance.