SMB Backup

When designing and deploying backup solutions, SMBs face many of the same challenges as larger organizations.

The volume of data 

From data-intensive applications to ever-larger data files and the increasing use of video, SMBs are virtually swimming in data that is increasing exponentially. And as SMBs grow, there are constantly more users and devices to protect, along with a broader spectrum of applications.

Complex hybrid environments 

SMBs are increasingly taking advantage of cloud services and cloud infrastructure to improve IT performance while reducing the cost of managing and storing data. SMB backup technology must effectively protect physical, virtual, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Compliance requirements 

While compliance can be a significant burden for every organization, SMBs have fewer resources to use to monitor, manage and demonstrate compliance with a wide variety of regulatory frameworks. Superior SMB backup technology must drastically simplify compliance management and minimize the staff time required to supervise it.

Legacy investments 

As their IT environments evolve, SMBs inevitably collect a variety of limited SMB backup solutions that cannot be easily integrated or globally managed. The result is often a fragmented approach to SMB backup that results in data silos, frustration and, when tools are misconfigured, data loss and corruption.

Dell EMC is a market leader in SMB and enterprise backup solutions and data protection technology. Protecting data capital from edge to core to cloud, Dell EMC backup software, backup storage and backup solutions provide powerful and cost-effective backup, recovery, archiving and replication solutions that increase uptime, avoid data loss, simplify management and reduce costs.

Dell EMC SMB backup solutions include:

• Backup appliances and Integrated Data Protection Appliances that provide powerful data protection and backup capabilities in a single appliance that is easy to deploy and manage.
• Data protection and backup software that accelerates backups and recovery significantly for mission-critical applications.
• Data protection and backup solutions for cyber recovery, virtualized environments and cloud environments.

SMB backup systems from Dell EMC offer a number of significant advantages.

• Reduced costs. Dell EMC solutions for SMB backup reduce costs by significantly improving deduplication to minimize the required footprint for secondary storage. Accelerated backups help to minimize the need for and cost of LAN and WAN bandwidth. And automated processes and easy-to-use management tools minimize the cost of staff resources required to manage backup.
• Faster backups. Dell EMC backup technology accelerates backups and recovery and reduces network bandwidth requirements significantly.
• Easier management. With Dell EMC, IT teams get a single solution to globally manage SMB backup for everything from laptops to the largest data center, and across all environments – physical, virtual, cloud and hybrid.
• Cloud-enabled technology. Dell EMC provides cloud ready technology that delivers cloud disaster recovery, protection for long-term cloud retention and in-cloud backups.
• Faster deployment. With Dell EMC, SMB backup solutions can be quickly deployed to ensure protection of business-critical data.

What are Dell EMC solutions for SMB backup?

Dell EMC offers comprehensive SMB backup solutions that include integrated appliances, advanced backup software and backup solutions for cyber recovery, virtualized environments and cloud backup.

How do integrated appliances simplify SMB backup?

Integrated appliances combine software and hardware in a comprehensive solution for data protection and backup. Dell EMC integrated appliances help to simplify management of backup, recovery, deduplication, replication, archiving, disaster recovery and long-term retention to the cloud.

What types of backup software does Dell EMC offer for SMB backup?

Dell EMC offers a variety of software solutions for SMB backup. 

• PowerProtect Software is the next step in the transformation from traditional data protection to comprehensive data management. PowerProtect Software 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 Software offers SaaS reporting and monitoring to easily analyze and troubleshoot distributed environments from anywhere.  
• NetWorker enables centralized backup and recovery that bridges traditional and next-generation workloads to safeguard information across the data center.
• Data Protection Advisor provides unified and automated monitoring, analysis and reporting across backup and recovery environments.
• Avamar is a deduplication software that delivers fast, daily full backups and single-step data recovery.
• Search delivers unified index, search and recovery capabilities that provide fast, specific and accurate results.

Do Dell EMC solutions provide SMB backup to the cloud?

Yes. Dell EMC solutions offer SMB backup for long-term retention in the cloud, in-cloud backup and cloud disaster recovery, as well as hybrid cloud backup that enables organizations to eliminate tape backups to reduce TCO.

Can Dell EMC technology protect virtualized environments for SMB backup?

Yes. Dell EMC technology provides automation, integration with VMware and comprehensive coverage for virtualized environments on-premises and in the cloud.