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Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager software is an enterprise solution that provides software-defined data protection, deduplication, operational agility, self-service, and IT governance.
PowerProtect Data Manager enables the transformation from traditional centralized protection to an IT-as-a-service model that is based on a self-service design. This design ensures that you can enforce compliance and other business rules, even when backup responsibilities are decentralized to individual database administrators and application administrators.
PowerProtect Data Manager (shown in the following figure) supports multiple workloads such as: