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Enterprises worldwide are using virtualized platforms to improve IT efficiency and performance, but the need for fast-growing infrastructure presents new challenges. IT organizations must virtualize the rest of the data center, making all infrastructure services become as inexpensive and easy to provision and manage as virtual machines. The solution to address this challenge is the software-defined data center (SDDC): the ideal architecture for private, public, and hybrid clouds.
The VMware vision of the modern data center is a software-defined, standardized architecture. It is a fully integrated hardware and software stack that is simple to manage, monitor, and operate. The VMware architecture for SDDC empowers organizations to run hybrid clouds and incorporate unique capabilities to deliver key outcomes that enable efficiency, agility, and security. The VMware SDDC is based on VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, and VMware NSX to provide compute, storage, and networking virtualization to the SDDC. The VMware vRealize Suite is included in the SDDC for additional cloud management, self-service, automation, intelligent operations, and financial transparency.
Dell Technologies shares the VMware vision of the modern data center and extends that to the infrastructure. For customers that choose VMware as the primary technology for modernizing their data center or building a multicloud IT environment, Dell Technologies offers both automated and guided paths to the VMware SDDC. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on Dell EMC VxRail is a unique, differentiated solution from Dell Technologies.
Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager enables users to protect, manage, and recover data in on-premises, virtualized, and cloud deployments. This platform provides centralized governance that helps mitigate risk and assures compliance of SLAs and SLOs through simple protection workflows. It enables automated discovery and onboarding of databases, VMs, and PowerProtect Data Domain as protection storage, and allows self-service and centralized protection for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases. PowerProtect Data Manager covers many cloud data-protection use cases, such as long-term retention, cloud disaster recovery, backup to cloud, and in-cloud backup. It also includes a SaaS-based reporting solution for management, compliance, and predictive analytics.