Backup Solutions

The backup solutions deployed by IT organizations today must address a growing list of challenges to data protection, backup, recovery and archiving.

The growth of data
Data volumes are growing exponentially and showing no sign of slowing down. Big Data, the Internet of Things, the rise of video and the growth of data-intensive applications all contribute to the need for backup solutions to be able to manage vast amounts of data today and to scale easily to meet tomorrow’s demands.

More complex environments
Organizations are increasingly using the cloud for data storage and protection, requiring solutions that can manage backup, recovery and archiving over hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Broader spectrum of applications, devices and users
A growing workforce of users, an increasing number of devices and diverse application ecosystems that must be protected at the source all help to make data protection and backup more challenging than ever.

Stringent performance and compliance goals
With high expectations for performance, backup windows are inevitably shrinking, requiring faster backup solutions. And strict regulatory environments add complexity to management of archiving and data retention policies.

Multiple point solutions
Many organizations are using multiple backup solutions, acquired through mergers or as a result of siloed departments and data stores. Trying to integrate these backup systems only results in greater potential for data loss and corruption.

Stricter cost control
Most IT departments are facing pressure to contain costs and do more with less even as the complexity of data protection requires more resources and staff time.

Dell EMC provides data protection and backup solutions that help to secure and protect data no matter where it resides while simplifying management, reducing costs and easing the burden of compliance. Dell EMC backup solutions include backup storage, backup software and integrated appliances that provide simple but powerful backup, recovery, archiving and disaster recovery solutions to avoid data loss and improve uptime and availability.

Backup solutions from Dell EMC include:

• Data protection and backup appliances. Dell EMC cloud-ready data protection appliances bring together protection storage and software, search and analytics to simplify management and deliver a comprehensive view of data protection infrastructure from a single dashboard.
• Data protection and backup software. Dell EMC data protection software delivers next-generation data management and comprehensive data backup capabilities to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes.
• Data protection and backup solutions. Dell EMC solutions help to meet specific challenges such as cyber recovery, protecting multi-cloud environments and managing data protection in the software-defined data center.

With Dell EMC backup solutions, you can:

• Improve data management. Make data more available and protect it from the edge to core to cloud.
• Automate data protection. Simplify data management with advanced data mobility and policy-driven automation.
• Increase data security. Secure data assets with industry-leading solutions that deliver superior risk reduction for workloads and state-of-the-art security across heterogeneous environments.
• Reduce costs. Proprietary deduplication technology reduces backup storage resource requirements and its compute efficiency cuts costs.
• Accelerate deployment. Deploy data protection technology quickly and easily.
• Recover critical data easily. Data recovery capabilities include easy-to-deploy management and automation software.
• Protect data in the cloud. Protect traditional and emerging workloads with cloud disaster recovery, long-term retention and cloud data backup solutions.

The advantages of Dell EMC backup solutions include:

• Easier management. Dell EMC backup solutions are designed to simplify management of data protection in complex environments with multiple platforms and applications. Dell EMC technology centralizes monitoring, analysis and reporting and enables global management and monitoring of data copies across primary and protection storage.
• Smaller storage footprints. Dell EMC solutions require less storage and a smaller footprint for data protection, thanks to technology that delivers high deduplication rates.
• Cloud enabled technology. Dell EMC backup solutions extend data protection capabilities beyond on-premises environments to the cloud, whether you’re protecting applications and data residing within a data center or public cloud.
• Superior disaster recovery capabilities. Dell disaster recovery capabilities deliver network-efficient replication that helps to minimize WAN costs and reduce WAN bandwidth requirements.
• Remarkable scalability. Scale up to manage petabytes of usable capacity with a single system.
• Market-leading technology. In-line data verification, continuous fault detection and self-healing technology make Dell EMC solutions an industry-leading defense against data integrity issues.

What are Dell EMC backup solutions?

Dell EMC backup solutions provide storage, software, integrated appliances and other solutions to help organizations secure and protect data no matter where it resides. Backup solutions from Dell provide cost-effective backup, recovery, archiving and replication capabilities that help to increase uptime and minimize data loss or corruption.

What kinds of backup do Dell EMC backup solutions support?

Dell EMC backup solutions protect everything from laptops to the largest data center, as well as data and applications residing in on-premises infrastructure to virtualized environments that include public and hybrid clouds. Dell EMC technology supports deduplication backup, snapshot-based backup, backup to disk and backup to tape.

What’s included in Dell EMC backup software?

Dell EMC Data Protection Suite comprises several essential components:

• PowerProtect Data Manager, offering software defined data protection, deduplication, operational agility, self-service and IT governance for physical, virtual and cloud environments.
• Avamar, a deduplication backup software that delivers fast, daily full backups and single-step data recovery.
• NetWorker, delivering centralized backup and recovery that bridges traditional and next-generation workloads to safeguard information across the data center.
• RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, enabling quick recovery of VMware virtual machines to any point in time.  
• Data Protection Advisor, offering unified and automated monitoring, analysis and reporting across backup and recovery environments.
• Search, providing unified index, search and recovery capabilities that yield fast, specific and accurate results.