How Dell Technologies Simplifies Data Protection
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:31:34 -0000
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As we are moving to the era of digitalization, more data is vulnerable to corruption, compromise, and loss. As a result, organizations are focusing on data protection strategies to improve security and data integrity. The key principle of data protection is to safeguard and make data available under all circumstances. Dell Technologies offers a variety of data protection products to make sure that data is secure and readily available. In this blog I’ll be covering a few of the outstanding data protection products that Dell provides.
Data protection and backup solutions
Cloud
As organizations are redistributing and extending their data to the cloud or to multiple clouds, protecting that data becomes critical. By implementing a multi-cloud data protection solution, users and developers can avoid cloud vendor lock-in by keeping data independent of the cloud, to reduce worry about high egress charges, migration risk, or time required to move data. Multi-Cloud Data Services for Dell PowerProtect, enabled by Faction, supports a data centric approach for users, allowing them to separate their data and cloud management strategies across public cloud providers. Multi-Cloud Data Services for Dell PowerProtect is a fully managed service that provides a single target for backup and recovery for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
VMware
Data protection solutions from Dell Technologies gives customers the power to confidently plan their modern data protection strategies through constant innovation, agile engineering, and tight integration with VMware - all at a lower cost of ownership (TCO). Dell offers protection solutions for VMs, applications, and Kubernetes for a single platform for containerized products and workloads. The solution simplifies deployment and management of VMware workloads on-premises or in one or more public clouds.
Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery
PowerProtect Cyber Recovery provides proven, modern, and intelligent protection to isolate critical data, identify suspicious activity, and accelerate data recovery, allowing you to resume normal business operations with confidence in case of a cyberattack. Critical data is stored immutably in a hardened vault, enabling recovery with assured data availability, integrity, and confidentiality. CyberSense is the analytics engine that is integrated with Cyber Recovery to help find data corruption when an attack penetrates the data center. CyberSense enables confident recovery of good data and offers insight into attack vectors from within the Cyber Recovery vault.
Data protection and backup appliances
Dell PowerProtect DD series appliances
DD series is our purpose built backup target appliance. The DD operating system (DDOS) provides inline deduplication for data protection and disaster recovery (DR) in the environment. DDOS is the intelligence that powers DD series and PowerProtect systems. It provides the agility, security, and reliability that enables the platform to deliver scalable, high-speed and cloud-enabled protection storage for backup and archive. DD series appliances vary in storage capacity and data throughput. PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE) is the software-defined version of the DD series: a virtual deduplication appliance that provides data protection for small-to-medium sized business, enterprise and service provider environments both on-prem and in-cloud.
Dell PowerProtect DP series appliances
DP series is an integrated appliance solution thatprovides complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication, instant access and restore, search & analytics, seamless VMware integration — plus, cloud readiness with disaster recovery (DR) and long-term retention (LTR) to the cloud — all in a single appliance. With the DP series, customers reduce their time-to-protect and become more agile with a reliable solution that’s fast, protected more efficiently, and can be recovered quickly.
Data protection and backup software
Dell Data Protection Suite
Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
PowerProtect Data Manager software protects data and delivers governance control for modern cloud workloads across your evolving physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Address ever-changing growth and IT complexity by leveraging Dell software defined data protection platforms. PowerProtect Data Manager delivers next generation data protection that enables faster IT transformation, while giving you the assurance that you can easily safeguard and quickly unlock your data’s value. This software-defined solution includes self-service protection, centralized governance, and SaaS-based reporting and monitoring.
Dell Avamar
Avamar is backup and recovery software that provides integrated data deduplication technology. Avamar solves the challenges that are associated with traditional data protection, enabling fast and reliable backup and recovery for remote offices, VMware environments, DD series and Cloud Tier, and data center LANs. Unlike traditional solutions, Avamar reduces the size of backup data at the source—before it transfers across the network and stores to disk. As a result, Avamar delivers fast, efficient daily full backups despite slow or congested infrastructure, and data encryption for added security.
Avamar is available as a virtual edition or as a component of Data Protection Suite, which offers you a complete suite of data protection software options.
Dell NetWorker
NetWorker software provides unified backup and recovery of enterprise applications and databases. With centralized administration, NetWorker helps you take advantage of the data protection that fits your needs best: deduplication, backup to disk and tape, snapshots, replication, and NAS. NetWorker protects both physical and virtual environments including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. It provides the same enterprise-level experience, whether you are protecting data and applications within the data center or in the public cloud.
NetWorker is available as virtual edition (NVE) or as a component of the Data Protection Suite, which offers you a complete suite of data protection software options.
Dell Data Protection Advisor
Data Protection Advisor allows you to unify and automate monitoring, alerting, and reporting across your data protection software and storage environments, including on-premises and cloud. Data Protection Advisor enables you to make informed decisions faster, to increase efficiency.
Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines to any point in time. RecoverPoint for VMs provides continuous data protection (CDP) for operational recovery and disaster recovery. It is hypervisor-based, software-only data replication that integrates with VMware vCenter.
Dell APEX Backup Services
APEX Backup Services is a cloud-based data protection solution that ensures predictable, controllable costs without increasing complexity. It deploys in minutes and provides unlimited on-demand scaling to ensure that growing data volumes are always protected. An intuitive web-based experience provides centralized visibility and management across workloads and users, to ensure that your data is always protected.
With changing times, data protection solutions provided by Dell have also changed, and for the better. The variety of data protection products provided by Dell Technologies makes sure that data is easy to access, readily available, secured, and uncorrupted.
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Author: Charu, Engineering Technologist 2