Data Protection

Effective data protection and data management require organizations to find solutions for a number of significant challenges.

Massive data growth is a problem for any data protection program. With data volumes growing at exponential rates, there’s a sharp increase in the cost and complexity of backup and data retention, regulatory compliance and data security.

Data complexity also makes data protection harder. With information now spread around the globe and residing on heterogeneous platforms, there’s a significant balkanization of the data landscape that makes it difficult to achieve data protection with a single solution. As a result, organizations are increasingly turning to multiple vendors and point solutions to meets data protection requirements, further complicating data management tasks.

The magnitude of data events has raised the stakes on data protection. The cost of downtime or a data breach can easily run into the millions of dollars, increasing the focus on data solutions and magnifying the expectations placed on data protection technology.

Dell data protection solutions help organizations address data management challenges and extract greater value and opportunity from data assets. By protecting data from edge to core to cloud, Dell data protection helps to simplify the data landscape, secure data assets and automate data services.

Data protection solutions from Dell include powerful, simple and cost-effective solutions for backup, recovery, archiving and replication that can help to increase uptime and mitigate the risk of data loss.

Data protection and backup appliances

Dell data protection appliances are simple to deploy and manage, making it easier to protect data no matter where it resides.

• The Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) - is a converged solution that combines capabilities for backup, recovery, deduplication, replication, instant access and restore in a single appliance with faster deployment and lower cost-to-protect. Dell offers IDPA solutions for mid-sized businesses to large enterprises.
• PowerProtect DD - delivers a scalable, reliable cloud backup solution with backup appliances for small, midsized and enterprise environments and a software-defined solution for virtual environments.
• PowerProtect DD - also offers software for faster backup and replication, cloud disaster recovery and long-term retention in the cloud.

Data protection and backup solutions

Additional Dell Data Protection and Backup Solutions include:

• Cyber Recovery Solution - software that automates workflows to protect critical data, identify suspicious activity and recover data quickly when required.
• Data Protection for VMware - automation, integration with VMware and comprehensive coverage for application ecosystems on premises and in the cloud.
• Cloud Protection – a complete portfolio of data protection hardware, software, solutions and services that help transform data centers for greater operational efficiency, scalability and resiliency.

What is an integrated data protection appliance?

An integrated data protection appliance combines hardware and software and can be easily integrated or plugged into a corporate network to help manage data backup and recovery, data replication, deduplication, disaster recovery and other data protection tasks.

How is data protection for cybersecurity different from backup and recovery?

Traditional backup and recovery technology is not sufficient to protect data from cybersecurity threats. Many attacks may include malware and code that is embedded in files and which, when backed up and later restored, allow only attackers to regain access to networks and data. Data protection for cybersecurity focuses on isolating clean data in a locked-down environment where it is protected from the attack surface.

What is Data Protection-as-a-Service?

Data Protection-as-a-Service (DPaaS) is a collection of cloud-based or web-based services that provide tools for organizations to help protect data assets. Data Protection-as-a-Service offerings may include services for backup, disaster recovery and storage. DPaaS provides state-of-the-art tools at an affordable price point and without the need for capital investment in hardware or software.

How does data protection apply to cloud storage?

There are multiple challenges to protecting data in the cloud. Organizations must have a reliable plan for backing up and restoring cloud data, for managing and testing cloud disaster recovery, and for making long-term data retention in the cloud more cost-effective by reducing storage footprints through deduplication.