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What is Data Protection and Why is it Mission-Critical?

As organizations become increasingly reliant on technology and data, data protection is now a mission-critical priority. Ensuring that data is secure, available and uncorrupted is essential for avoiding downtime, preventing legal exposure, stopping cybercrime, ensuring productivity and improving performance.

Data protection has traditionally been defined as keeping information safe from corruption, loss and compromise. But with data now driving an organization’s ability to compete, data protection today must also enable more effective data management. Data protection technology that helps to cost effectively ensure continuous availability can now be used to simplify compliance, streamline workflows, improve analytics, power DevOps activities and enable data to be preserved for long-term monetization.

Solving the Most Pressing Challenges of Data Protection

Effective data protection and data management require organizations to find solutions for a number of significant challenges.

Massive data growth is a problem for any data protection program. With data volumes growing at exponential rates, there’s a sharp increase in the cost and complexity of backup and data retention, regulatory compliance and data security.

Data complexity also makes data protection harder. With information now spread around the globe and residing on heterogeneous platforms, there’s a significant balkanization of the data landscape that makes it difficult to achieve data protection with a single solution. As a result, organizations are increasingly turning to multiple vendors and point solutions to meets data protection requirements, further complicating data management tasks.

The magnitude of data events has raised the stakes on data protection. The cost of downtime or a data breach can easily run into the millions of dollars, increasing the focus on data solutions and magnifying the expectations placed on data protection technology.

Achieving Superior Data Protection with Dell

  • Dell data protection solutions help organizations address data management challenges and extract greater value and opportunity from data assets. By protecting data from edge to core to cloud, Dell data protection helps to simplify the data landscape, secure data assets and automate data services.

Data protection solutions from Dell include powerful, simple and cost-effective solutions for backup, recovery, archiving and replication that can help to increase uptime and mitigate the risk of data loss.

Data protection and backup appliances

Dell data protection appliances are simple to deploy and manage, making it easier to protect data no matter where it resides.

PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance - offers an integrated data protection platform that combines protection storage with PowerProtect Data Manager software and cloud readiness – all in a single appliance. The appliance provides a unified user experience and automates discovery and protection of databases, VMs, file systems and Kubernetes containers.

PowerProtect DD - Designed to meet backup, archive, disaster and cyber recovery needs for organizations of all sizes, these physical and software-defined appliances delivers enterprise performance, efficiency and scale and easily integrates with Dell and third-party backup software.

PowerProtect DP - is a converged solution that combines capabilities for backup, recovery, deduplication, replication, instant access and restore in a single appliance with faster deployment and lower cost-to-protect.

Enabling Multicloud Data Protection

As the shift towards cloud-based infrastructures intensifies, managing cloud data protection becomes paramount. Dell Technologies offers a comprehensive suite of hardware, software solutions, and services that address the challenges of cloud data protection. These solutions not only reduce costs and complexities but also empower organizations to transition to the cloud with unwavering confidence.

PowerProtect DD Series Appliances:
Scalable, reliable, and cloud-ready backup appliances that optimize data protection.

PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance:
Provides a unified user experience and automates discovery and protection of databases, VMs, file systems and Kubernetes containers.

PowerProtect DP Series Appliances:
An integrated data protection appliance that offers complete backup, replication, and recovery.

PowerProtect Data Manager:
A software platform tailored for modern cloud workloads across diverse environments.

Data Protection Suite:
A comprehensive suite built on proven software solutions, ensuring simplicity and flexibility.

APEX Backup Services:
SaaS based data protection, offering backup and disaster recovery with infinite scalability and controllable costs

Cloud Tier:
Cloud protection technology that natively tiers data to various cloud types for long-term retention.

Cloud Disaster Recovery:
Provides secure and cost-effective disaster recovery to public cloud environments.

PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager:
A SaaS solution designed for public cloud workload protection.

Why choose Dell for cloud data protection?

  • Rapid, secure data backups: Accelerates backups, reducing the time from hours to mere minutes.
  • Complex environments: Simplifies protection across diverse data centers and cloud environments.
  • Compliance requirements: Streamlines compliance with policy-driven backup management.
  • Cost management: Uses advanced deduplication to minimize storage footprints and costs.

Challenges of Cloud Data Security and Protection

The cloud revolutionizes data management, but with it comes the challenge of cloud data security
  • Data loss: Accidental deletions, migration issues, or insufficient backups can lead to significant data loss. Effective cloud data security requires top-tier backup, restore, archiving, migration, and data replication tools.
  • Compliance complexity: Regulatory frameworks, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR, add layers of complexity to data management. Solutions must simplify compliance while streamlining reporting.
  • Disasters: Natural disasters, power outages, and accidents can jeopardize cloud data. Proper disaster recovery solutions are essential to ensure data security during such events.
Five Key Steps for Cloud Data Security at Dell Technologies

Comprehensive data protection:
At Dell Technologies, we integrate regular risk assessments with advanced encryption protocols. Our PowerProtect Data Manager ensures your data is secure, both at rest and in transit.

Enhanced access management:
to user access security, we implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and strict controls. Our cloud solutions and Data Protection Suite guarantees that only authorized personnel can access sensitive data.

Regular backups and recovery:
We're committed to data availability and swift recovery. With Dell’s PowerProtect DD Series Appliances and Cloud Disaster Recovery, we offer optimized data protection and quick data restoration.

Continuous monitoring and training:
Dell utilizes the PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager for real-time monitoring and provide our teams with top-tier security training, ensuring threats are detected and human errors minimized.

Collaborative cloud security:
By engaging closely with leading cloud providers, we ensure our offerings, especially the PowerProtect DP Series Appliances, align with the latest cloud security standards.

Data Protection FAQs

An integrated data protection appliance combines hardware and software and can be easily integrated or plugged into a corporate network to help manage data backup and recovery, data replication, deduplication, disaster recovery and other data protection tasks.

Traditional backup and recovery technology is not sufficient to protect data from cybersecurity threats. Many attacks may include malware and code that is embedded in files and which, when backed up and later restored, allow only attackers to regain access to networks and data. Data protection for cybersecurity focuses on isolating clean data in a locked-down environment where it is protected from the attack surface.

Data Protection-as-a-Service (DPaaS) is a collection of cloud-based or web-based services that provide tools for organizations to help protect data assets. Data Protection-as-a-Service offerings may include services for backup, disaster recovery and storage. DPaaS provides state-of-the-art tools at an affordable price point and without the need for capital investment in hardware or software.

There are multiple challenges to protecting data in the cloud. Organizations must have a reliable plan for backing up and restoring cloud data, for managing and testing cloud disaster recovery, and for making long-term data retention in the cloud more cost-effective by reducing storage footprints through deduplication.

Cloud Data Protection refers to the strategies, technologies, and processes implemented to safeguard data stored in cloud environments. This encompasses backing up data from on-premises to the cloud, ensuring long-term data retention, protecting data within cloud applications, and providing disaster recovery solutions. The primary goal is to ensure data integrity, availability, and security, regardless of where the data resides. With the increasing adoption of cloud services, cloud data protection has become essential for businesses to prevent data breaches, loss, and to meet regulatory compliance requirements.

Cloud data security involves safeguarding data in the cloud from threats like loss, corruption, theft, and compromise. This encompasses cyberattack protection, cyber recovery solutions post-attack, backup and recovery technology, and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data accessibility post-outages or natural disasters.

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