Dell EMC Delivering Software-Defined, Cloud-Enabled Data Protection For Data Center

Leveraging its portfolio of data protection software and servers, Dell EMC, part of Dell Technologies, announced product and service enhancements to deliver software-defined, cloud-enabled data protection for the modern data center.

As customers of all sizes look to transform IT, the first step will be to modernize their data center. With a modern architecture, utilizing technologies that are software-defined and cloud-enabled is key. The company is making its data protection portfolio cloud-enabled as well as enabling its ‘Purpose Built Backup Appliance’ software-defined to run on PowerEdge server.

Data Domain Virtual Edition 3.0
Available, the company has released Data Domain Virtual Edition 3.0 (DD VE), delivering customers the purpose-built backup appliance in an economical software-defined solution wherever it’s needed. DD VE runs as a VM and is qualified to run on PowerEdge servers. With DD VE 3.0, the firm also introduces pre-validated, supported, pre-tested reference architectures that combine the strengths of PowerEdge 13G servers with DD VE software. As announced last month, DD VE is supported on VxRail appliances, allowing customers to deploy software-defined protection storage in a hyperconverged environment.

DD VE 3.0 features a 6x increase in scalability, capable of protecting up to 96TB in a single instance. The firm has expanded hypervisor support in DD VE, enabling it to run as a VM on both vSphere and Hyper-V. Customers can also leverage cloud tiering capabilities in DD VE for long-term data retention in public, private or hybrid clouds such as Elastic Cloud Storage and Virtustream Storage Cloud. Secure multi-tenancy in DD VE makes it for Backup-as-a-Service deployments in a private cloud or service provider cloud.

Enhancing cloud data protection and manageability
Enterprises have applications and data both on-premise and in the cloud, introducing sprawl and complexity for IT staff trying to manage and protect highly distributed applications and data. Firm’s data protection portfolio is designed to help IT centralize data protection management and control of the entire information environment and is extensible to more cloud platforms, providing the same enterprise-grade protection experience.

The company is announcing two protection solutions for in-cloud applications and data as well as the addition of multiple cloud-enabled enhancements designed to simplify and lower the cost of protection for both backup and application administrators, including:

Protection of applications running on Microsoft Azure: Following the announcement of a protection solution for Amazon AWS at EMC World in May, NetWorker with CloudBoost protects applications running on the Microsoft Azure platform, employing the same source-side data de-duplication, compression and encryption for highly efficient and secure backups in the cloud
Native cloud tiering in NetWorker 9.1 and Avamar 7.4: Native administration of Data Domain Cloud Tier via the NetWorker or Avamar management consoles allow you to create, control and manage long-term data retention and data movement policies using Data Domain Cloud Tier from the same user interface being used for on-premises data retention workflows
Native cloud tiering for applications: With Data Domain Boost for Enterprise Applications, IT application administrators are now empowered to perform their own backup to the cloud for long-term retention, all while using their own application’s native interface or CLI commands. Supported applications include Oracle, SQL, SAP, SAP HANA, DB2
Natively tier de-duplicated data directly to cloud platforms: Data Domain Cloud Tier requires no cloud gateway or virtual appliance to tier de-duplicated data directly to the public, private or hybrid cloud. To lower TCO, the solution ensures that only unique data is uploaded to already de-duplicated data within cloud object storage
Secure data tiering to a variety of cloud platforms: Data Domain Cloud Tier supports data tiering to clouds including Virtustream Storage Cloud, Dell EMC ECS for on-premise object storage as well as third party public clouds and employs DD Encryption and DD Retention Lock to ensure data in the cloud remains secure
Spanning Backup – Global expansion: Microsoft Office 365 and SalesForce.com have become staple cloud-based business applications for office workers around the globe. Spanning Backup for Office 365 simplifies compliance with EU data sovereignty regulations, offering EU customers a backup and recovery solution for their cloud-based Office 365 and SalesForce data. All European customer storage and processing is handled within a new regional data center located in the EU. Spanning Cloud Apps LLC, a Dell EMC company, intends to extend these services to other regions in 2017.

Prosupport one for data center
With a focus on providing consistent, seamless support across the data center, the firm is announcing ProSupport One for Data Center. This service brings together Dell and EMC’s support capabilities for enterprise customers looking for a quality, unified service experience across their IT environment.

Backed by expertise, innovative tools and a global infrastructure, the service includes:

Collaborative, personalized services account management
Priority access to specialized firm’s technical support engineers on a 24x7x365 basis
Up to 90% less IT effort with proactive monitoring for automated issue prevention and accelerated resolution from SupportAssist and Secure Remote Services (ESRS)

Availabity:

Data Domain Virtual Edition 3.0 is available.
NetWorker 9.1 support for Microsoft Azure is available.
NetWorker 9.1 with CloudBoost will be available in December 2016.
Native management of Data Domain Cloud Tier support with NetWorker 9.1, Avamar 7.4 and Data Domain Boost for Enterprise Applications 3.5 will be available in December.
Spanning Backup for Office 365 service is available.
ProSupport One for Data Center is available.

Beth Phalen, SVP and GM, data protection solutions, Dell EMC, said: “Dell EMC offers a world-class portfolio of data protection solutions designed to help ensure our customers can trust their data is protected to meet any service level across all consumption models. We provide our customers protection where they need it and how they want it – from traditional on-premise to virtualized infrastructure, to converged infrastructure, to cloud, Dell EMC solutions cover the continuum of requirements and ensure data protection everywhere.“