Your data lives in the data centre, across clouds, and out at the edge, potentially across multiple providers, each with its own security and workings.

Making matters more complicated are updates, changes in policies, and regulations that place new burdens on you and storage providers.

A backup tool here, another there, and you can very quickly lose time and sacrifice agility, plus bake these disadvantages into your operations:

  • Blind spots between systems
  • Policies that drift and weaken
  • More room for human error
  • Slower response times to threats

What you have then is protection spread wide across multiple touchpoints and the continually more complex task of monitoring and securing defences. Wouldn’t it be useful to pull security under one tool?

One platform to cover the whole estate

Dell Tehnologies PowerProtect One protects and recovers your data across environments and consolidates your backup tools.

Existing providers keep their security workings, with Dell Technologies PowerProtect One putting a protection-and-recovery layer over the data you hold across them.

The way it works in practice:

  • Dell Technologies PowerProtect One stores your backups on Data Domain Storage, a physical backup appliance that holds them in an unalterable form.
  • PowerProtect Data Manager then runs your schedules, policies, and recovery.
  • Those unalterable files cannot be encrypted or deleted, so Dell Tech PowerProtect One can restore your servers.
  • A dashboard provides a health, status, capacity, and risk overview. Not only are your environments protected, but you see them in one view.

Your existing backup software can write straight to Data Domain and be managed under PowerProtect One, via Dell Tech’s DD Boost integration.

Less to manage and less to go wrong

Moving backups under one tool has proven itself for Dell Tech customers. Dell Tech places the reduction in management overhead at circa 50% and the reduction in deployment time at 75% — gains you’ll immediately feel in your operations.

But those gains, even though they’re significant, give way to a quietly more substantial advantage for your organisation. That is, every gap you remove between systems is one fewer route for a threat to slip through unseen.

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