Intelligent Data Management

When searching for intelligent data management technology, organizations need solutions that can overcome the many challenges of backup, data recovery, archiving, migration and compliance.

Costs
From the expense of data storage to the price of bandwidth, staff resources and data management tools, the cost of managing data can easily spiral out of control. Intelligent data management solutions must enable IT teams to cut costs even as data volumes and complexity continue to grow.

Inadequate tools
Many IT organizations have inherited a variety of limited point solutions that provide only a fraction of the functionality required for intelligent data management. Trying to integrate these fragmented tools is almost impossible, and the risk of data loss is consequently higher.

Data is everywhere
Data protection is no longer simply about managing data on-premises – data may now be distributed globally in public, private and hybrid clouds. Intelligent data management solutions must not only make it easy to protect data no matter where it resides, but also give IT administrators and business decision-makers a unified view of data across environments.

Regulation
From PCI DSS to HIPAA and GDPR, governmental regulations concerning the use and storage of business data continue to add cost and complexity to data protection. Intelligent data management technology must make it easier to both comply with regulation and respond to legal and compliance inquiries.

Performance
Competitive businesses simply can’t afford to have data and applications offline for backup, disaster recovery or archiving purposes. Intelligent data systems must minimize the impact on IT environments while providing even greater protection of business-critical information.

While the challenges to data protection are significant and growing more difficult, Dell Technologies provides intelligent data management technology that makes it easy and cost-effective to protect, manage, recover and unlock the value of business data.

Through a combination of data protection appliances, software and targeted solutions, Dell helps to protect data from edge to core to cloud with industry-leading solutions that reduce risk, automate tasks and optimize workloads at scale.

Dell EMC data protection appliances include:

• PowerProtect appliances, delivering performance for demanding workloads. PowerProtect appliances enable enterprise or SMB backup, recovery and replication with simplicity, agility, flexibility and IT governance controls. 
  • PowerProtect DD series appliances, highly scalable, reliable and cloud-enabled appliances that reduce disk storage while completing more backups in less
    time.
  • PowerProtect DP series appliances, the next generation of Integrated Data Protection Appliances (IDPA). DP series appliances are converged appliance solutions that provide complete backup, replication, recovery, deduplication and instant access and restore with simplified management capabilities.

Dell EMC also provides data protection and backup software that includes: 

• Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager, providing software defined data protection, automated discovery, deduplication, operational agility, self-service and IT governance for physical, virtual and cloud environments. PowerProtect Data Manager enables you to orchestrate protection directly through an intuitive interface or empower data owners to perform self-service backup and restore operations from their native applications. You can ensure compliance and meet even the strictest of service level objectives, leveraging your existing Dell EMC PowerProtect appliances.
• Dell EMC Data Protection Suite, a comprehensive software solution for organizations of all types and sizes. Data Protection Suite provides easy to use tools for backup, snapshot, replication, disaster recovery, long-term retention and cyber recovery, along with complete visibility into data protection environments across multiple systems and sites.

Intelligent data management solutions from Dell Technologies provide businesses of every size with significant benefits.

• Lower costs. Dell helps to minimize the cost of data management by significantly reducing the footprint required for storage, thanks to advanced deduplication. Faster backups help to minimize the cost of bandwidth and the impact on IT systems. Automation and easy-to-use tools reduce the cost of staff time required to manage data.
• Simpler management. A unified platform with easy-to-use tools and centralized monitoring, analysis and reporting help to reduce the amount of time IT teams must spend on data management.
• Protection for cloud and virtualized environments. Dell EMC intelligent data management solutions provide tools for in-cloud data backup, long-term cloud retention and cloud disaster recovery. Organizations can also protect virtualized environments through automation, superior data, lower bandwidth usage and integration with VMware.
• SaaS based management, enabling you to easily analyze and troubleshoot distributed environments from anywhere. You can get started in minutes with nothing to install.

What is intelligent data management?
Intelligent data management combines best-of-breed technology with best practices for protecting data, managing backup and recovery, archiving inactive data and planning for disaster recovery. Intelligent data management solutions should help to simplify the complexity of managing growing volumes of data while also reducing the cost of storage, bandwidth and IT resources required for data protection.

Can I manage cloud backups with Dell Technologies intelligent data management solutions?
Yes. Dell Technologies provides cloud data protection and backup systems for long-term retention to cloud, in-cloud backups and cloud disaster recovery. Dell offers hardware, software solutions and services for protecting data in the cloud.

Can I manage virtualized environments with Dell EMC intelligent data management technology?
Yes. Dell provides data protection technology that is architected for the modern and software-defined data center, making it easy to protect and scale VMware environments and their movement to the cloud.