Dell Updates PowerProtect to Boost Cyber Resilience

Recently, Dell Technologies launched new updates to its PowerProtect portfolio for enhancing an organization’s cyber resilience.

Dell’s PowerProtect Data Domain features purpose-built backup appliances to deliver cyber resilience and management both on-prem and across multicloud environments.

Among the new portfolio enhancements are:

• PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash appliance
• PowerProtect Data Manager
• PowerProtect Cyber Recovery
• PowerProtect Backup Services

“The Dell PowerProtect portfolio sets the standard with Data Domain purpose-built backup appliances, delivering robust cyber resilience and management both on-premises and across multicloud environments,” writes Product Marketing Senior Consultant at Dell, Tom Guiliano, in a blog post. “Trusted by over 15,000 customers worldwide, Data Domain safeguards the most vital assets with unmatched reliability. With a focus on continuous innovation, Dell ensures its solutions stay ahead of evolving threats, providing resilience and peace of mind.”

PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash appliance

This newly available enhancement delivers improved cyber resilience, with up to four times faster data restores and twice the replication performance. It provides greater efficiency and security to modernize cyber resilience strategies.

The key new benefits of the appliance include:

• Unparalleled performance: 4x faster data restores and 2x faster replication, ensuring minimal downtime during recovery, while also delivering 2.8x faster analytics to validate data integrity in a PowerPoint Cyber Recovery vault.
• Space and energy efficiency: The hardware occupies 40 percent less rack space and provides up to 80 percent power savings without compromising performance, while achieving up to 65:1 data reduction.
• Advanced security features: Built-in data immutability, encryption, and hardware root of trust for tamper-proof data.
• Seamless integration: Native compatibility with Dell PowerStore and PowerMax for fast, efficient, and secure backup recovery, along with an extensive backup software ecosystem.
• Broad DD Boost ecosystem: Enables seamless integration, advanced efficiency, and collaborative innovation for greater flexibility and growth.

More enhancements for PowerProtect

To strengthen end-to-end cyber resilience, Dell has made further enhancements to its PowerProtect portfolio.

PowerProtect Data Manager

This new feature provides ecosystem, security, and virtualization enhancements, including support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployment, a SUSE deployment option for Dell PowerMax and archive to object proxies, and archive-to-object support for Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale.

PowerProtect Cyber Recovery

These features address ransomware recovery and operational efficiency challenges, including support for the PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash appliance, and CyberSense Analytics support for Commvault client-direct backups of Oracle databases.

PowerProtect Backup Services

These enhanced services enable organizations to leverage Microsoft Azure Storage as a backup target, in addition to AWS. It offers seamless backup and granular item-level recovery for Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling restoration to both production sites and sandbox environments. Additionally, it delivers cyber resilience for Microsoft 365, Azure VMs, and Entra ID, unifying an organization’s Microsoft data management under a single, reliable platform.

“Cyber resilience is more than a defensive strategy– it’s a catalyst for innovation. By safeguarding critical data and ensuring business continuity, organizations can focus on what matters most: driving progress and delivering value,” Giuliano said. “The Dell PowerProtect portfolio offers the comprehensive protection businesses need to thrive in an unpredictable world.”

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