Dell EMC announces
new and enhanced capabilities to the Dell EMC Data Domain and Integrated Data
Protection Appliance (IDPA) portfolio of backup storage appliances designed to
offer organizations real-world flexibility and value with expanded multi-cloud
capabilities and improved performance. The enhancements also provide mid-sized
organizations and remote offices of larger organizations with more choice and
options in obtaining enterprise-level data protection.
According to IDC, 92 percent of organizations have adopted a
cloud environment with 64 percent adopting a multi-cloud approach. With
a mix of different clouds, protecting data across workloads while meeting
compliance and security requirements is a critical challenge for many
organizations. In fact, according to a study conducted by IDC for Dell EMC,
cross-cloud support was the highest recognized data protection deficiency for
IT transformation. Dell EMC recognizes this challenge and
continues to enhance its data protection appliances to help customers mitigate
risk and protect their most valuable asset - their data - in multi-cloud
environments.
Multi-cloud capabilities
Data Domain OS 6.2 and IDPA 2.3 software now provide customers
with even more choice to extend their data protection to public clouds with
expanded Cloud Tier support to Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud,
thereby, enabling more flexibility for long-term retention. This is in addition
to support already offered across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud
Storage, Virtustream, Ceph, IBM Cloud Open Storage, AWS Infrequent Access,
Azure Cool Blob storage and Azure Government Cloud. Also, a new Free-space Estimator Tool for
Cloud Tier helps enable more efficient capacity management to help reduce
on-premises and cloud storage costs.
Dell EMC also expanded its ecosystem of supported public cloud
providers for Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE), which provides software
defined data protection on-premises and in public clouds, to AWS GovCloud,
Azure Government Cloud and Google Cloud Platform. This adds to the already
supported platforms AWS S3 and Azure Hot Blob. The expanded cloud ecosystem
combined with the previously announced increased capacity for DD VE - up to
96TB per instance - ensures customers will receive the same level of protection
within their growing cloud environments as they receive from their on-premises
Dell EMC appliances.
Additionally, Native Cloud Disaster Recovery is now available
across the entire IDPA family, enabling customers to cost-effectively failover
to a cloud environment with end-to-end orchestration. Customers no longer have
to bear the expense and management of setting up and maintaining a secondary
site for disaster recovery and can failover to public clouds with ease in case
of a disaster event and failback when the issues are resolved. With this
expansion, all Data Domain and IDPA models support AWS, including VMware Cloud
on AWS, and Microsoft Azure for Cloud Disaster Recovery.
Organizations will also find peace of mind in that all Dell EMC
data protection appliances provide modern, simple-to-manage user interfaces.
Also, administrators can easily manage multiple Data Domain and DD VE
appliances - on-premises or in public clouds - from a single user interface
with the Data Domain Management Center.
Enhanced performance
Updates to the IDPA family now provide more performance for
Instant Access and Restore with an enhanced data cache that results in up to
four times more inputs/outputs per second (IOPS), providing up to 40,000 IOPS
with as little as 20 milliseconds latency.
Also, Data Domain appliances provide faster restores from an
on-premises appliance and faster recalls from public clouds. Given these
enhancements, organizations can now restore their data up to two-and-a-half
times faster from a Data Domain appliance and recall their
data up to four times faster from the cloud to a Data Domain
appliance, allowing them to meet more stringent SLAs.
More options for mid-sized organizations
Choice and scalability are critical for smaller, mid-sized
organizations that require enterprise-level, cloud-enabled data protection. In
addition to cloud and performance updates, Data Domain DD3300 - a 2U appliance
specifically designed for mid-sized organizations and larger enterprises with
remote offices - has new hardware enhancements. DD3300 now offers an additional 8TB capacity model that can
scale and grow-in-place to 32TB. Also, DD3300 now comes with faster
networking capabilities with support for 10GbE and expanded backup options for
virtual tape libraries (VTL) over Fiber Channel. These options provide
mid-sized organizations with a cloud-enabled data protection solution that can
grow as their needs change.
Availability:
Dell EMC Data Domain Operating System 6.2, Dell EMC
IDPA 2.3 and enhancements to Data Domain DD3300 are available immediately
through Dell EMC and its authorized channel partners.