Dell: All-Flash Cyber Recovery, Faster and Smarter

By Brian White, product marketing consultant, responsible for awareness and evangelizing PowerProtect Cyber Recovery solutions, Dell Technologies, Inc.

In the fast-paced world of IT, speed is often seen as a crucial factor for success. In the case of data recovery, you want to recover your good data as fast as possible.

The 2024 Global Data Protect Index study reals that 75% of organizations are concerned their data protection measures may not be sufficient to cope with malware and ransomware threats. ⁽¹⁾ Performing smart rapid recoveries with data integrity intact is where Dell’s new offering, APEX Protection Storage All-Flash for Cyber Recovery comes into play.

Power of flash storage
Flash storage has changed the IT industry with its superior speed and communication capabilities compared to traditional HDDs. This heightened speed is the primary reason why flash storage has become so appealing to organizations. With faster read and restore times compared to traditional HDDs, SSDs provides faster data access speeds, reducing latency and improving overall system performance. Moreover, enterprises can benefit from workload consolidation, reduced hardware footprints, minimize power consumption, and lower maintenance and operational costs.

Addressing ransomware
As the threat landscape of ransomware attacks continues to evolve, critical data is also increasing in size for many organizations. Now organizations face the challenge of restoring more critical data from isolated recovery environments while maintaining their SLAs. With the introduction of Dell APEX Protection Storage All-Flash for Cyber Recovery, built on PowerProtect Data Domain software-defined storage, customers can leverage a simple, energy-efficient, and cost-optimized solution with fast restoration capabilities for critical data.

APEX Protection Storage All-Flash for Cyber Recovery is delivered as a reference architecture on Dell’s 16G PowerEdge R760 server with 220TB capacity on VMware. With restore speeds up to 2x faster when compared to the DD6900 ⁽²⁾ and up to 56% less rack space when compared to the DD9910 at 1.5PB ⁽³⁾, this offering can streamline your recovery operations and provide energy efficiency with enhanced analytics through CyberSense. CyberSense validates the integrity of data in the Cyber Recovery vault and with All-Flash leverages fewer hardware resources while maintaining a sustainable energy footprint. Powered by AI-based machine learning and over 200 content-based analytics, CyberSense achieves a 99.99% accuracy in detecting ransomware corruption through rigorous testing vs. real-world scenarios with live ransomware. ⁽⁴⁾

Principled Technologies conducted a comparison between Dell’s PowerProtect Cyber Recovery with CyberSense and a competitive data protection solution (labeled as Vendor X) in terms of their capabilities to detect ransomware corruption. The results revealed that the competitive solution missed one attack entirely and took 15 backup cycles to detect the other two. In comparison, CyberSense detected ransomware corruption from the 3 different types of attacks in a single backup cycle. Detailed information on this testing can be found in the Principled Technologies report: A Principled Technologies report: Hands-on testing, Real-world results.

Conclusion
Recovery speed is important, but it must be accompanied by a smart approach that validates the integrity of your data before restoration to reduce additional business risks. APEX Protection Storage All-Flash for Cyber Recovery offers the speed required for quick data restoration while ensuring the integrity of the data is not compromised thus produces a smart recovery process. This is crucial when recovering data affected by cyberattacks.

As the future trajectory of ransomware points towards more advanced and targeted attacks, leveraging new technologies and exploiting vulnerabilities, having a reliable and efficient cyber recovery solution becomes increasingly essential for organizations. Trust Dell Technologies to provide the solution that combines speed, intelligence, and resilience in data restoration to get you back to business.

⁽¹⁾ Based on the Global Data Protection Index, October 2023.
⁽²⁾ Based on Dell internal testing comparing All-Flash configuration using owerEdgeR760vs.PowerProtect DD6900 at similar capacity. Actual results may vary, July 2024.
⁽³⁾ Based on Dell internal testing comparing All-Flash configuration using PowerEdge R760 vs. PowerProtect DD9910 at similar capacity. Actual results may vary, July 2024.
⁽⁴⁾ Based on an ESG report commissioned by Index Engines, Index Engines’ CyberSense Validated 99.99% Effective in Detecting Ransomware Corruption. June 2024. Actual results may vary.