Dell PowerProtect DP Series Integrated Appliances and PowerProtect Data Manager Software Advancements

Dell Technologies, Inc. introduces Dell EMC PowerProtect DP series integrated appliances and PowerProtect Data Manager software advancements to help customers protect, manage and recover data from traditional and modern applications across core data centers, edge locations and public clouds.

PowerProtect DP4400

The company, provider in data protection appliances and software⁽¹⁾, also announces PowerProtect Cyber Recovery is a data vaulting solution endorsed by Sheltered Harbor to enhance cyber resiliency in the financial sector.

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“Companies are managing almost 40% more data than last year according to this year’s Dell Technologies Global Data Protection Index Snapshot. Along with exponential data growth, the rise of multi-cloud strategies and modern applications creates new challenges,” said Jeff Boudreau, president and GM, infrastructure solutions group. “Data protection is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Dell Technologies continues to advance our target and integrated appliances portfolio and software-defined data protection offerings, helping customers manage today’s challenges while keeping an eye on what lies ahead.“

PowerProtect DP series offers modern integrated data protection
It is the company’s next gen integrated data protection appliance, offering backup, recovery, replication, deduplication, cloud readiness with DR, and long-term retention to the public cloud.

PowerProtect DP series appliances help customers manage explosive data growth, lower costs and simplify increasing complexities with all-in-one solution, offering:

Performance: Delivers up to 38% faster backups and up to 45% faster restores. ⁽²⁾ It also offers instant access and restore of up to 50% greater IO/s⁽³⁾, compared to the previous gen, allowing customers to quickly and easily recover critical data.
Efficiency: Provides up to 1PB of usable capacity with 30% more logical capacity ⁽⁴⁾, with up to 65:1 data reduction, enabling customers to store more data in the same space with more cost-effective systems.
Energy savings: Consumes up to 23% less power than previous gen ⁽⁵⁾, delivering energy and cost-savings.

“The rise of modern applications, multi-cloud strategies and the sheer amount of data created present data protection challenges our company faces every day,” said Clifton Dorsey, VP, Warrell Corporation. “The PowerProtect portfolio, including the new PowerProtect DP series capabilities, help us address these changing IT and data protection requirements.“

“The Dell EMC PowerProtect portfolio provides customers with a variety of simple, efficient and agile data protection options, so that they can choose the approach that best fits their IT strategy,” said Steven Ayoub, president, Ahead. “Dell Technologies is a very strong partner, and new offerings like the PowerProtect DP series are changing the game in data protection.“

Sheltered Harbor endorses PowerProtect Cyber Recovery

The company announces that PowerProtect Cyber Recovery is an on-premises turnkey data vaulting solution to receive a Sheltered Harbor endorsement. It is the not-for-profit, industry-led initiative dedicated to enhancing the stability and resiliency of the financial sector in the wake of increased cyber-attacks.

PowerProtect Cyber Recovery protects customers from cyber threats ranging from ransomware to insider attacks. The solution’s CyberSense analytics and ML capabilities allow customers to monitor data integrity, ensuring the continued quality of their data. Forensic tools allow customers to discover, diagnose and remediate ongoing attacks. With this endorsement, US financial institutions can deploy an endorsed vaulting solution to protect critical customer data from cyber threats.

PowerProtect Data Manager delivers enhanced Kubernetes and cloud data protection

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PowerProtect Data Manager delivers a value to PowerProtect appliance customers that have cloud, VMware and Kubernetes environments. Data Manager protects in-cloud workloads in Azure and AWS, offering customers choice in deploying the software.

It supports the VMware Tanzu portfolio to protect customers’ modern applications. New integrations make it a solution to provide native vCenter Storage Policy Based Management integration for VM protection ⁽⁶⁾. Customers can save time and better protect their VMs by using well-known workflows from within their VMware vSphere environment to assign data protection policies. Data Manager also offers a VMware-certified solution to protect the VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure layer.

It also offers protection for containerized modern applications with agentless, application-consistent protection of open source databases, including PostgreSQL and Apache Cassandra, in Kubernetes environments. Customers can protect Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to backup Kubernetes cluster-level resurces.

“As companies embrace modern IT they also must adopt data protection solutions that can handle today’s challenges without losing sight of what lies ahead,” said Phil Goodwin, research director, enterprise infrastructure practice, IDC. “With these updates to the PowerProtect portfolio, Dell is simultaneously simplifying its portfolio and expanding its capabilities to protect both existing and emerging workload requirements.“

Flexible consumption with Dell Technologies On Demand
With Dell Technologies On Demand, PowerProtect’s customers can choose how to pay for, consume and manage their appliances. With managed services, customers can leave their ongoing data protection operations to the company’s experts to monitor, operate and optimize their environment, saving time and reducing risk. Flexible payment solutions enable customers to more effectively budget for IT spending, and only pay for technology and services as needed.

Availability:

PowerProtect DP series appliances – DP4400, DP5400, DP5900, DP8900 – will be available globally in December 2020.
PowerProtect Data Manager enhancements are available.

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Resources:
Blog:Powering Up Data Protection for the Future
Blog:PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Endorsed by Sheltered Harbor

⁽¹⁾ IDC WW Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Systems Tracker, 2Q20, September 2020.
⁽²⁾Based on Dell internal testing with DD Boost protocol on DD9900 within DP8900 with DDOS 7.2 vs. DD9800 within DP8800 with DDOS 7.2, April 2020. Actual results may vary.
⁽³⁾Based on 8KB 100% read internal test to measure peak IO/s, performed on PowerProtect DD9900 and DDOS 7.2, July 2020. Retest performed on DD9900 within DP8900, September 2020. Actual results may vary. Based on field telemetry from PowerProtect DD series appliances. PowerProtect DP series appliances also apply to field telemetry data. Actual results may vary.
⁽⁴⁾ Based on field telemetry from PowerProtect DD series appliances. PowerProtect DP series appliances also apply to field telemetry data. Actual results may vary.
⁽⁵⁾Based on Dell analysis comparing DP8900 vs.DP8800 max configurations recording kVA, August 2020. Actual results will vary.
⁽⁶⁾Based on Dell analysis, September 2020.