With growing sophistication and frequency of cyber threats, protecting your mission-critical data and applications has never been more important. The 2024 Global Data Protection Index study reveals that more than 60% of organizations are not very confident their organization is meeting their backup and recovery service level objectives (SLOs). Addressing this challenge requires a data protection solution that is both secure and easy to use.
Dell Technologies continues to push the boundaries of efficiency with Storage Direct Protection for Dell PowerMax. Available globally today, the native integration of PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect Data Domain with PowerMax storage¹ delivers advanced capabilities that provide fast, efficient, secure, and simple backup and recovery operations, designed to keep your data easily manageable and readily available.
Increased Recovery Speed
Through PowerProtect Data Manager, Storage Direct Protection enables rapid recovery via snapshot lifecycle management for PowerMax, enabling you to create, retain and delete snapshots without data movement. High-performance recoveries ensure swift, reliable data recovery, minimizing potential data loss and downtime which helps keep your business resilient and secure.
Minimal Impact to Applications
Storage Direct Protection for PowerMax enables you to perform application or crash consistent backups and have little to no impact on your applications. This is crucial for maintaining the performance and availability of your critical business applications, even during backup and recovery processes.
Storage Direct Protection also delivers the fastest possible recovery times with block-level differential recovery, enabling rapid return to operations when you need it most. Additionally, Instant Access volumes on PowerProtect Data Domain will be available in native PowerMax format², further enhancing the efficiency and speed of your data recovery processes for business-critical applications.
Secure Data Protection
Storage Direct Protection with PowerProtect Data Domain enhances PowerMax backups with robust security features, including incremental forever backups, end-to-end immutability and cyber vault capabilities. Immutability protects against unauthorized changes and cyber threats, ensuring the integrity of your data. A cyber vault also provides an isolated environment to data and mission-critical applications while providing quick recovery, with little to no impact to your applications. With these advanced security features, you can be confident your data is secured.
Centralized Control and Management
PowerProtect Data Manager enhances the overall security of your PowerMax data while simplifying protection operations. Data Manager offers enhanced backup orchestration and centralized management, plus automatic discovery and protection of new volumes, for all your data. PowerProtect Data Manager helps ensure your backups and restores are efficient and straightforward from a single interface.
Multicloud Capabilities
Unlock advanced multicloud capabilities with Storage Direct Protection for PowerMax across private, public and hybrid clouds. Seamlessly integrated with PowerProtect Data Manager and Data Domain, Storage Direct Protection ensures efficient backup, long-term retention and secondary disaster recovery for PowerMax. By tiering backups to cloud storage, you reduce costs while maintaining easy access without impacting PowerMax resources. This solution empowers you to secure critical data with unmatched performance and efficiency, ensuring your business stays resilient.
Optimal Dell Storage Protection
The native integration of PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect Data Domain with Dell PowerMax storage helps transform your data protection by fortifying your data’s integrity, streamlining your data protection operations, accelerating recovery times, and offering protection flexibility for your multicloud environments. With centralized management, incremental forever backups, end-to-end immutability and application-consistent backups, Storage Direct Protection delivers advanced, comprehensive protection for modern data centers.
Whether you are protecting data in your data center, cloud or edge environments, Dell Technologies ensures you have the speed, efficiency, security, simplicity and flexibility you need in today’s continually evolving IT environment.
1 Updated Disclaimer: Storage Direct Protection supports PowerMax 2500 and 8500 only, minimum PowerMaxOS 10.1.0.3.
2 Available later this year.
