While threats like spear-phishing, DDOS attacks and ransomware frequently make the news as significant security issues, there are other threats to cloud data security that can be equally devastating.

• Data loss: Losing data to accidental deletion, problems with migration or insufficient backup can be as costly as a malicious attack. Cloud data security must include best-of-breed solutions to ensure that IT teams have the best backup, restore, archiving, migration and data replication tools available.
• Compliance complexity: Regulatory frameworks like PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR add significant pressure and complexity to the task of managing data and cloud data security. IT teams need solutions that make it easier to comply with ever-changing regulatory environments while also streamlining the task of compliance reporting.
• Disasters: From power outages to accidents and natural disasters, it’s only a matter of time before a disaster threatens cloud data security. The right disaster recovery solutions can help to mitigate the impact of a disaster and provide cloud data security during and after downtime.

Dell Technologies, a global leader in data protection and enterprise backup solutions, provides hardware, software, solutions and services that help organizations improve and manage cloud data security. With Dell, organizations can transform their data centers to deliver greater operational efficiency, resiliency and scalability, protecting their data as they embark on digital transformation to the cloud.

Dell Technologies can help organizations improve cloud data security by:

• Backing up and restoring data more easily, effectively and cost efficiently.
• Employing simpler, faster disaster recovery with lower infrastructure and administrative costs.
• Simplifying long-term retention to the cloud.
• Managing in-cloud backup more easily.
• Protecting virtual environments with ease.

Dell EMC data protection technology includes a number of hardware and software solutions for cloud data security, including:

• PowerProtect Data Manager, software defined data protection, automation, deduplication, self-service and IT governance for physical, virtual and cloud environments.
• Dell EMC PowerProtect DD series appliances, cloud-enabled backup appliances that help protect data wherever it lives in the most efficient way possible. PowerProtect appliances reduce the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data and make it possible to complete more backups in less time to reduce WAN bandwidth costs.
• Dell EMC PowerProtect DP series appliances, formerly Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), all-in-one data protection software and storage in a single appliance that delivers backup, replication, recovery, search, and analytics. Easy to deploy and manage, they can help consolidate data protection software and hardware for any size organization. 
• Dell EMC Data Protection Suite, a full-featured software solution that supports workloads being protected across multiple environments from core to edge to cloud.
• Dell EMC Cloud Tier, a solution for natively tiering data to a public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention. This best-of-breed technology enables only unique data to be sent to secondary storage in the cloud, reducing protection storage footprints and associated costs.
• Dell EMC Cloud Disaster Recovery, a solution that allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from their on-prem environments to the public cloud for DR testing, DR failover and failback of Tier 2 workloads.
• Dell EMC PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager, a SaaS solution that simplifies protection of workloads in public cloud environments without needing infrastructure or installation. IT teams can use a single tool to protect workloads across multiple clouds and to automate assignment resources to achieve auto scaling in the cloud.

As IT organizations work daily to contain costs, understanding cost-to-protect (CTP) can help administrators to compare the benefits of different technologies, focus decision-making and ultimately reduce operational and capital costs for data protection.

The Dell Technologies CTP calculator provides an easy way to project your potential savings with Dell EMC data protection technology. To calculate your CTP, enter the number of gigabytes required for protection storage, the cost of your data protection solution, the months supported by purchase and other criteria.

What is cloud data security?

Cloud data security involves protecting data that is stored in the cloud from loss, corruption, theft and compromise. Approaches to ensuring cloud data security may include technology to protect data from cyber attack, cyber recovery solutions to recover data after an attack, backup and recovery technology to restore data that is lost or corrupted, and disaster recovery solutions to provide access to data after an outage, a natural disaster or a cyberattack.

Does Dell support cloud data security for IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and SAP deployments?

Yes. Dell EMC data protection solutions are an ideal choice for protecting IBM and Microsoft applications and providing Oracle cloud backup or SAP backup.