Cloud Data Management

Managing cloud data effectively and cost efficiently requires IT teams to address several significant obstacles.
• Storage optimization. As data volumes continue to grow exponentially, minimizing cloud backup storage volumes and simplifying long-term retention is essential for containing costs and simplifying cloud data management.
• Managing compliance. Evolving regulatory frameworks continue to cause challenges for organizations in many industry verticals. Superior cloud data management requires tools that can simplify compliance in the use and retention of data while reducing the administrative burden of demonstrating compliance on IT teams.
• Simplifying management of complex environments. Managing data that resides in public, private and hybrid clouds as well as on-premises servers can easily consume a great deal of IT staff resources. To manage cloud data efficiently, IT teams need easy-to-use tools that can automate processes and streamline tasks involved in cloud data management.
• Containing costs. Ultimately, any cloud data management solution must enable IT teams to respond to financial pressures by doing more with less, while also helping to reduce costs by minimizing storage footprints and accelerating backups, restores, disaster recovery and other cloud data management tasks. 

A global leader in data protection solutions for businesses of all sizes, Dell provides cloud data management technology that helps customers achieve greater operational efficiency, resiliency and scalability throughout their entire cloud journey.

Dell enterprise backup software, hardware and solutions provide easy-to-use cloud data management that enables organizations to:

• Eliminate tape backups and reduce TCO through hybrid cloud backup. Dell technology enables organizations to easily leverage cloud environments to improve data protection and to reduce the cost and complexity of data backups, restores, disaster recovery, archiving and migration.
• Simplify disaster recovery. Cloud Disaster Recovery technology enables organizations to copy backed-up VMs from on-premises environments to the public cloud, and to easily orchestrate DR testing, failover and failback of cloud workloads in a disaster scenario.
• Manage long-term retention. Cloud Tier natively tiers deduplicated data directly onto cloud object storage for long-term retention. Advanced deduplication technology enables organizations to drastically reduce their protection storage footprints.
• Protect cloud data with in-cloud backup. Dell delivers efficient in-cloud backup and replication to simplify protection of data and applications that are born in the cloud or that have been moved there. Dell breaks down cloud silos to discover, orchestrate and automate data protection.
• Protect virtual cloud environments. Dell enables VMware Cloud on AWS customers to move production workloads to the public cloud with confidence. By providing a single solution that can protect hybrid cloud workloads and perform VMware recovery, Dell simplifies administration and lowers TCO.

Dell solutions enable IT teams to overcome the obstacles to cost-effective cloud data management.

Dell hardware and software solutions help contain costs by reducing the amount of disk storage and hardware needed to retain and protect data. Additionally, Dell makes it possible to complete more backups in less time, helping to drastically reduce the cost of WAN bandwidth and minimizing any adverse impact on application performance.

Easy-to-use Dell technology simplifies administration and enables IT teams to improve data protection for growing data volumes without adding additional staff resources.

Policy-driven backup management streamlines compliance with regulatory standards for cloud data management and protection.

Advanced deduplication technology and long-term retention tools enable IT teams to significantly reduce protection storage footprints and to minimize the administrative burden of managing long-term retention in the cloud.

What is cloud data management?
Cloud data management is the task of managing data that is backed up to or resides in cloud data environments. Cloud data management tasks may involve managing backup and restore operations, planning for disaster recovery, managing data archiving and long-term retention.

What are the challenges of cloud data management?
Cloud data management solutions must:

• Simplify the complexity of managing data that resides in public, private and hybrid clouds as well as on-premises storage.
• Contain the costs of cloud storage as data volumes increase.
• Ensure that data is protected from theft, compromise, loss and corruption.
• Help IT teams to manage and demonstrate compliance with a wide variety of regulations.

What are Dell cloud data management solutions?
Dell hardware and software solutions are cloud-enabled. Cloud data management technology from Dell includes:

• PowerProtect DD series appliances – a scalable cloud-enabled appliance that supports faster backups and reduces storage footprints.
• PowerProtect DP series appliances – the next generation of Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), offer complete data backup, replication and recovery, all in one.
• PowerProtect Data Manager – software defined data protection, deduplication, self-service and IT governance for physical, virtual and cloud environments.
• Data Protection Suite – a full-featured software solution to support workloads that are protected across multiple environments from core to edge to cloud.
• Cloud Tier – a solution for natively tiering data to public, private or hybrid clouds for long-term retention.
• Cloud Disaster Recovery – a solution for complete orchestration of testing, failover and failback of Tier 2 workloads to and from the cloud in a disaster scenario.
• PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager – a SaaS-based solution that lets IT teams discover, orchestrate and automate the protection of workloads across multiple clouds based on policies for seamless backup and disaster recovery.

Can Dell back up Oracle, SAP and other information systems to the cloud?
Yes. Dell provides solutions for Oracle backup, SAP backup and backup of other business-critical technology systems.