Lower Cost to Protect Data
Your customers face increasing pressure to simultaneously support new business initiatives and reduce IT costs, including the cost to store protected data. In order to achieve both, they simply must modernize their data centers and transform their IT infrastructure—extensively automating for speed, agility, reliability and cost control.
The combination of Dell Data Domain and Dell Data Protection Software can help customers cost-effectively optimize their infrastructure. As validated by ESG Research, this Dell combination can cut the cost of capacity needed to protect data by up to 81%, compared to Data Domain environments using non-Dell backup software.
How does a comprehensive Dell data protection solution lower data protection costs?
It’s simple:
• Advanced Dell deduplication technologies work in tandem within an end-to-end Dell system and help to reduce or eliminate tape infrastructure, effectively helping to reduce cost
• These technologies also help minimize bandwidth demands, achieve a smaller infrastructure footprint and lower associated energy costs
In fact, end-to-end Dell data protection can safeguard customers’ data for as little as fractions of a penny per GB per month
Dell data protection solutions are architected to offer customers economic benefits through industry-leading, highly efficient data deduplication. Four core supporting technologies are:
• Variable-Length Deduplication. Dell’s advanced dedupe enables the Data Domain platform to better align incoming data structures to determine what data is unique. It produces greater data reduction compared with fixed-length architectures, which results in a much more scalable protection storage pool, helping to simplify management and lower infrastructure costs. Plus, Dell provides global deduplication across sites and clients.
• Data Domain Boost. With DD Boost software, only unique data has to be sent from client devices or the backup server to the Data Domain platform—reducing the amount of data moved by up to 99%. This further reduces not only the need and cost of protection storage, but also backup time. When DD Boost is deployed with the Data Protection Software at the client, it sends only the de-duplicated unique data directly to protection storage, by-passing the media server. The result is a reduction in infrastructure footprint required, therefore fewer resources to purchase and manage, not to mention a faster backup due to fewer hops in the data path. For 8 of 12 Data Domain customers that ESG Research analyzed, up to 98% of all backup jobs were completed in under an hour.
• Stream-Informed Segment Layout (SISL) Architecture. With this technology, 99% of the deduplication process takes place in the CPU and RAM of the Data Domain controller. This dispenses having to add disks to increase performance. It enables the controller to attain the same performance as higher capacity configurations with larger storage footprints, thereby reducing space requirements for data protection.
Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture. While this technology doesn’t improve performance or reduce costs, it ensures that mission critical data is always recoverable. One way that Data Domain ensures this is via inline write and read verification, which safeguards data integrity during ingest and retrieval. In addition, self-healing and on-going fault detection further protects data’s recoverability during its Data Domain lifecycle.
In all, the combination of Dell protection storage and backup and recovery software technologies increase data protection performance by dramatically reducing the amount of data that is required to be sent and stored. They provide a direct data path from the client by sending only unique data to the protection storage—and critically, they provide advanced data integrity to ensure recoverability.
The challenge of data recovery
Managing data backup and data recovery in today’s complex IT environments is increasingly difficult for IT teams and organizations of any size. With data residing in more locations – from on-premises servers to virtualized environments and public or hybrid clouds – integrating data stores and centralizing management is a significant challenge. Users have more control over their own data, further complicating attempts at comprehensive backup and data recovery. And with the rise of Big Data, the Internet of Things and other data-intensive technologies, data volumes are growing exponentially and showing no signs of slowing. Add stricter regulatory compliance, more stringent SLAs and increasing pressure to contain costs and you can easily see how backup and recovery can overwhelm even the most experienced IT departments.
That’s where Dell Technologies can help – with industry-leading solutions for data backup, data recovery, disaster recovery, archiving and replication that help to reduce the cost and complexity of protecting business-critical data.
Data protection offerings include complete data backup and data recovery systems that automate tasks, simplify management, improve availability, increase uptime and mitigate data loss.
• Data backup and data recovery software provides next-generation data protection, empowering organizations to transform IT faster, protect data capital and create more value from data assets. PowerProtect Data Manager delivers next generation data protection that enables faster IT transformation, while giving you the assurance you can easily safeguard and quickly unlock your data’s value. PowerProtect Data Manager enables you to set protection policies, backup and recover, deduplicate and tier physical and virtual workloads. Data owners and admins can protect critical workloads directly from native interfaces while IT maintains governance and compliance. PowerProtect Data Manager offers SaaS reporting and monitoring to easily analyze and troubleshoot distributed environments from anywhere.
• Data backup and data recovery appliances help reduce the complexity of data protection with scalable, pre-configured solutions that combine data protection storage with software, search and analytics.
• Data backup and data recovery solutions, including Cyber Recovery technology that protects critical data, identifies suspicious activity and performs data recovery after an attack. Other data protection solutions include Cloud Data Protection and Backup that help organizations transform data centers for greater efficiency, resiliency and scalability, and Data Protection for VMware that delivers simply powerful data protection for VMware environments, on-premises and in the cloud.
Misconfigured Backup Systems
Many organizations have legacy backup systems that use multiple point solutions, creating data silos and integration issues while also increasing the odds that data may be lost or corrupted when backup settings are misconfigured.
To protect data from loss, corruption, theft and attack, today’s backup systems must significantly streamline management, minimize complexity, simplify compliance and increase the efficiency of all aspects of data backup and protection. That’s where Dell data protection solutions can help.
Dell data protection solutions provide comprehensive and easy-to-use tools for backup, recovery, data replication, cloud disaster recovery and long-term retention and low cost-to-protect. With Dell backup systems, you can back up data and protect it from edge to core to cloud while taking advantage of policy-driven automation to simplify data protection tasks.
Dell backup systems can help you secure and protect your data no matter where it resides.
Backup software
Dell backup systems are powered by comprehensive data protection software that enables you to protect, archive and recover mission-critical workloads no matter where your data lives. Dell data protection software enables fast backups and recovery for mission-critical applications. Dell simplifies the backup process, making it easier to access best-in-class replication, backup and archive solutions customized for your needs. This industry-leading software enables you to:
• Perform deduplication backup, backup to disk, back-up to tape and snapshot-based backup.
• Get comprehensive backup monitoring, analysis and reporting.
• Back up data and applications within the public cloud and manage secure long-term retention of backups to the cloud.
Industry-leading appliances
Dell provides a wide range of data protection and backup appliances including protection storage, integrated appliances and software-defined solutions that can run in the cloud.
• PowerProtect DP series appliances, formerly Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) are a converged solution with a single appliance that offers complete backup, recovery, replication, restore, deduplication and instant access, plus cloud accessibility with disaster recovery and long-term retention to the cloud. PowerProtect DP series appliances enable fast and easy deployment with a low cost-to-protect.
• PowerProtect DD series appliances are industry-leading, scalable, reliable and cloud-enabled backup appliance, allowing you to protect your data wherever it lives in the most efficient way possible. DD series backup appliances reduce the amount of disk storage required and enable complete backups in less time with faster and more reliable restores.
• PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition is a software-defined solution that can be configured and deployed in minutes and provides flexible capacity that can scale easily, enabling you to deploy capacity in multiple instances on standard hardware, converged or in the cloud.
Data protection solutions
Additional data protection and backup solutions from Dell include:
• PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, a powerful defense against cyberattacks that features easy-to-deploy management software that automates workflows end-to-end, identifies suspicious activity, protects critical data and performs recovery when needed.
• Data Protection for VMware that provides easy integration with VMware, along with automated and comprehensive coverage for the largest application ecosystem, on-premises and in the cloud.
• Cloud data protection and backup solutions that make it easy to back up servers to cloud storage and ensure data is secure in the cloud while supporting digital transformation to the cloud with cloud disaster recovery, long-term retention and in-cloud backup.
Rapid growth of data
As data volumes grow, the cost and complexity of storing, managing and protecting data increases as well. Many businesses don’t currently have budgets to cover the infrastructure they need to manage their data adequately.
Dell Optimize for Infrastructure service provides IT teams with ongoing guidance from a designated storage expert to make sure mission-critical systems are configured and operating at peak performance. Optimize for Storage delivers personalized guidance and actionable next steps that result in significantly less risk of data loss, downtime and business delays. A Dell storage expert orchestrates a host of tools and resources to analyze, evaluate and report on storage health through daily system monitoring, deep-dive configuration & performance evaluations, and annual strategic planning sessions.
• Dell’s Offerings: Dell presents a range of top-tier software-defined storage solutions. These include:
Object-storage, available as a software-defined model or a turnkey appliance.
• Enterprise-class, high-performance scaleout block and file storage delivered on-premises or in the cloud.
Hyperconverged & converged systems designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and simplify a myriad hyperscaler and container orchestration platforms for block and file, across bare metal and hypervisors,
• Supported by a full complement of services and programs designed to maximize the value of a customer’s SDS investments.
Dell Optimize for Infrastructure service provides IT teams with ongoing guidance from a designated storage expert to make sure mission-critical systems are configured and operating at peak performance. Optimize for Storage delivers personalized guidance and actionable next steps that result in significantly less risk of data loss, downtime and business delays. A Dell storage expert orchestrates a host of tools and resources to analyze, evaluate and report on storage health through daily system monitoring, deep-dive configuration & performance evaluations, and annual strategic planning sessions.