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The IDPA protects leading enterprise applications and operating systems. The PowerProtect Data Manager solution protects traditional workloads such as file system, SQL, SAP HANA, Oracle, and Microsoft Exchange. It also protects modern, cloud-native Kubernetes workloads and offers differentiated VMware protection.
Integrating the proven IDPA with modern PowerProtect Data Manager enables you to get the most efficient and comprehensive data protection solution for your modernized workloads. Also, you can use the Dell EMC Data Domain system that is bundled with IDPA as back-end storage for PowerProtect Data Manager workloads at no extra cost.
PowerProtect Data Manager delivers a simplified user interface that is easy to navigate. It eases the process and reduces the number steps required for creating backups, replication, recovery, expansion, and upgrades. Monitoring, managing, and analyzing copies of data are no longer tedious tasks with PowerProtect Data Manager, which also addresses the issue of copy sprawling.
PowerProtect Data Manager provides centralized governance that helps mitigate risk and assures compliance of service-level agreements (SLAs) and service-level objectives (SLOs) through simple protection workflows.
PowerProtect Data Manager enables automated discovery and onboarding of the following:
It also offers self-service and centralized protection for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, SAP HANA, and Oracle databases, and is multicloud optimized for efficient, long-term retention and disaster recovery.
When you use the embedded Data Domain in IDPA as the target storage for unique workloads, you get secondary storage with unmatched efficiency, deduplication, performance, and scalability at no extra cost. This result combines the best of proven and modern data protection solutions.