With more complex computing environments and an ever-increasing volume of data to manage, analyse, and protect, data backup is an essential IT solution for all organisations, regardless of size.
Backups prevent permanent data loss and reduce recovery time and costs when data is compromised due to human error, a cyber attack, or disaster. However, with the growing popularity of hybrid infrastructure environments, data is now often split across multiple locations – on-premises and the cloud – making data management, protection, and compliance more challenging.
Dell’s backup and recovery solutions
Dell’s PowerProtect range includes a selection of immutable backup appliances and the supporting software to create one of the most comprehensive portfolios in the industry that can be tailored to fit the needs of every organisation.
PowerProtect DM5500, a converged backup appliance underpinned by Dell’s PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) software, provides effective data protection features, utilising Dell’s advanced protection storage architecture. With a foundation built on operational simplicity, agility, and flexibility, PPDM facilitates the safeguarding, administration, and recovery of your data, allowing you to quickly adapt to upcoming IT requirements.
You’ll also have the capability to secure cloud-native workloads across various public clouds through the integrated SaaS-based solution, PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager.
Beyond the DM5500, the PowerProtect Data Domain continues to remain a stalwart of the data protection landscape, offering an immutable and feature rich backup appliance that supports a wide range of popular third-party backup software, including Dell’s in-house Data Protection Suite.
Dell’s Cyber Recovery Vault builds on the success of the rest of the PowerProtect range through its comprehensive air-gapped backup solution. Safeguard, recovery, and maintain compliance for a diverse array of applications, databases, and contemporary cloud platforms using the Dell Data Protection Suite.
Get assurance that your data is secure through automated policy management and the discovery of Kubernetes containers, databases, virtual machines, and file systems. Enhance protection flexibility, efficiency, and scalability across your multicloud infrastructure.
- Achieve comprehensive backup, recovery, and management through a single software suite
- Extend protection seamlessly to the cloud with options for backup to the cloud, backup in-cloud, long-term retention, and cloud disaster recovery
- Ensure flexible and consistent data protection across virtual machines, cloud-native applications, and containers
- Facilitate quick and effortless recovery from cyber incidents to ensure business resiliency
Dell APEX backup services provide effortlessly simple data protection as-a-Service, allowing your organisation to streamline daily operations by eliminating the need for infrastructure management. It ensures all-in-one secure protection with comprehensive features, including backup, disaster recovery, and long-term retention.
There are three offers as part of the Dell APEX backup services for you:
- SaaS applications: ensure data protection for your SaaS apps at every stage of transmission, storage, and access
- Endpoint: retrieve data from lost or stolen endpoint devices and ensure that data isn’t completely lost
- Hybrid workloads: guarantee your applications that are both on-premises and the cloud are protected
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Dell backup and recovery FAQs
PowerProtect appliances are hardware immutable backup devices that offer high performance, scalability, security, and efficiency for backup and recovery. PowerProtect protects data across physical, virtual, cloud, and edge environments, and support multiple workloads and applications, such as VMware, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and Microsoft 365. It also integrates with PowerProtect Data Manager, which provides centralised management, automation, and orchestration of backup and recovery operations.
PowerProtect Data Manager is a software solution that enables you to create, monitor, and modify backup and recovery policies across your PowerProtect appliances and other data sources. It allows you to define backup frequency, retention, replication, and encryption settings, as well as apply different policies to different data types, locations, and owners. PowerProtect Data Manager also provides dashboards, reports, and alerts to help you track the status and performance of your backup and recovery activities.