Dell EMC: 2U Integrated Data Protection Appliance DP4400 for Mid-Size Organizations

Dell EMC, part of Dell Technologies, announced its Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), the IDPA DP4400, providing converged data protection to help mid-size organizations transform IT while combatting data sprawl and complexity.

Comprehensive data protection has been a challenge for mid-size organizations. enterprise products come with higher cost and complexity, while lower cost products that have traditionally targeted these organizations sacrifice performance, efficiency and application support. The IDPA DP4400 is a simple solution for mid-size organizations featuring enterprise capabilities for backup, deduplication, replication and recovery. It also offers built-in cloud readiness features with DR and long-term data retention to the cloud.

“For years, mid-size organizations haven’t quite had a comprehensive data protection solution that was sized and priced right for them,” said Beth Phalen, president, data protection, Dell EMC. “With the IDPA DP4400 there are no compromises. We’re delivering a converged data protection solution that’s as simple to use as it is powerful -with support for the largest application ecosystem and expansion to the cloud. The IDPA DP4400 offers the right level of modern features and capabilities for mid-size data centers at the lowest cost to protect.“

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Simple and powerful, at lowest cost to protect
The IDPA DP4400 blends simplicity and performance for mid-size organizations and ROBO environments. The solution is designed to provide organizations the lowest cost to protect and is guaranteed under the Dell EMC Future-Proof Loyalty program.

The IDPA DP4400 is a converged data protection appliance in a 2U platform powered by PowerEdge 14th generation servers.

Key features include:

Customer-installable and easy-to-use HTML5 user interface: Makes IDPA DP4400 for deployment and management in mid-sized organizations and ROBO locations.
Grows in place with no downtime: A single 24TB appliance can grow in place to 96TB with a license key and no additional hardware to purchase.
Protect more data with 55:1 average deduplication: IDPA DP4400 can protect approximately 5PB of usable data capacity. And, with native cloud tier for long-term retention, the total protected usable capacity increases to 14.4PB.
Supports largest application ecosystem: Includes support for applications such as MySQL and MongoDB, both physical and virtual, and support for multiple hypervisors (vSphere and Hyper-V).
Delivers performance with NVMe flash: Shortens backup windows by up to 2x; backups only de-duplicated data requiring up to 98% less bandwidth; and supports 7x more backup streams while delivering instant access and restore of VMs to help meet stringent SLAs and RPOs.
Cloud-ready solution: IDPA DP4400 comes with 5TB licenses each for cloud DR and cloud tier as well as a company’s RecoverPoint for VMs starter pack that provides five VMs and a one-year subscription.

The IDPA DP4400 simplifies data protection management via a HTML 5 user interface that automates daily tasks including management, monitoring and reporting. In addition, integration with VMware native tools, SQL Server Management Studio and Oracle RMAN enables application administrators to leverage protection features within familiar user interfaces.

With an average 55:1 deduplication rate, The IDPA DP4400 also offers cost-effective native cloud DR (to Amazon AWS) with end-to-end orchestration-failover in 3 clicks, and failback in 2 clicks-all without the need for additional hardware.

The IDPA DP4400 is optimized for VMware environments, with integration that enables vAdmins to perform most common backup and recovery tasks directly from the native vSphere UI. Protecting up to 5x more VMs in an 2U appliance and with automation across the entire VMware data protection stack (VM deployment, deployment of proxies and movement of data to protection storage), the IDPA DP4400 makes it cost-effective to scale up to protect more VMs. It also provides faster VMware backups and recoveries, and more efficient networking and capacity with its deduplication and bandwidth utilization.

The IDPA DP4400 offers customers value and TCO-costing up to 80% less to protect. With up to 2x faster backup windows, up to 20% more capacity in a 2U appliance, and an average rate of 55:1 deduplication, it offers low cost to protect among competing products in its class.

Guaranteed under future-proof loyalty program
The IDPA DP4400 is part of the ‘Future-Proof Loyalty Program’, offering a 3-year satisfaction guarantee, hardware investment protection, up to 55:1 data protection deduplication guarantee, and price-giving customers additional peace of mind with consistent and predictable maintenance pricing.

The IDPA DP4400 is available through the company and authorized channel partners, starting at under $80,000.

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Brian Linden, director, IT, Melanson Heath, said: “The IDPA DP4400 is a great product because it’s all in one. It’s highly scalable so you know that you’ve got great expansion capabilities. Because it’s Dell EMC, it’s ready to go and I can trust that I don’t have to do a lot of research and vetting to make sure it’s going to work for me. That’s peace of mind.“

John Sharp, manager, IT, The Vollrath Company LLC, said: “Installation for IDPA DP4400 is easy. Within two hours we were off and running. I don’t have to be Lou Ferrigno to rack a 2U. It goes in quick. It plugs in and is ready to backup our data. It just works.”

Seife Teklu, senior solutions architect, Arrow Electronics, Inc., said: “Before the announcement of IDPA DP4400, customers deployed individual data protection software components. Some customers did not leverage monitoring, search, analytics and reporting tools that were available to them. Dell EMC IDPA DP4400 integrated data protection appliance introduces a simple intuitive management interface with enterprise features. IDPA DP4400 appliance saves time, reduces overall risk and provides customers the tools they need for deeper insight into their data protection environment, making it an ideal solution for SMB and SME customers.“

Phil Goodwin, research director, storage systems and software, IDC, said: “Organizations today, especially mid-size organizations, are faced with increased complexity- relentless data growth, application diversity, increased numbers of users, and resource constraints-driving the need for solutions to meet these challenges with existing staff. However, users do not want to trade off simplicity for performance or capabilities. With the IDPA DP4400, Dell EMC is targeting a large swath of enterprises in that middle tier that want an all-in-one solution that is affordable, easy-to-use and has the modern data protection features they require to ensure their data is safe and their business can quickly recover in case disaster strikes.“

Resources:
Blog: Simply Powerful Data Protection for Midsize Orgs @ the Lowest Cost to Protect
Channel Blog: Ride the HCI Growth Curve with the New Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) DP4400