PowerProtect Innovations: Elevating Cyber Resilience and Recovery

Secure, detect and recover with portfolio enhancements

The surge in AI adoption and the continuous evolution of cyber threats are reshaping the expectations placed on IT infrastructure. Protecting data isn't just an operational concern anymore-it's a cornerstone of business continuity fundamentally tied to customer trust and organizational success. To help businesses stay a step ahead, Dell has released its latest cyber resilience enhancements that redefine how organizations can secure and recover data.

Why cyber resilience matters more than ever

Today's IT environments are more complex than ever before-spanning on-premises infrastructure, multicloud solutions and edge deployments. At the same time, cyberattacks are increasing in volume and sophistication.

Dell understands these challenges and meets them head-on. With innovations designed to enhance data security, detection and recovery capabilities, Dell helps ensure businesses can navigate an increasingly hostile cybersecurity landscape with confidence.

Introducing enhancements across the PowerProtect cyber resilience portfolio

PowerProtect Data Manager: Platform flexibility meets comprehensive protection

PowerProtect Data Manager enhancements deliver the infrastructure flexibility and operational efficiency organizations need to adapt their data protection strategies without compromising security or performance. The Linux Installation Option expands deployment choices by enabling direct installation on physical servers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES15) SP6, providing organizations with hypervisor flexibility to align with their preferred infrastructure strategies. Organizations gain true platform choice during infrastructure planning while the Generic Application Agent with Custom Script Support extends protection to modern database environments including MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB, accelerating time-to-protection for new workloads.

Enhanced visibility and simplified management drive operational efficiency across distributed environments. Multisystem Reporting with PowerBI support enables centralized monitoring of up to 150 Data Manager instances through enterprise-preferred visualization tools. Similarly, Avamar VM Copies Migration provides a clear consolidation path by managing legacy Avamar VM copies directly within PowerProtect Data Manager.

Security enhancements through Enterprise SSO integration with EntraID and Ping One align with corporate identity management standards and Conditional Replication optimizes storage consumption by enabling selective replication of specific backup schedules rather than every backup copy.

PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and CyberSense: Resilience for Ransomware Recovery

PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and CyberSense enhancements deliver new capabilities to address critical challenges in ransomware recovery, multicloud protection and operational efficiency. CyberSense Analytics now supports Azure environments, providing 99.99% accurate data integrity validation within a Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery vault housed in a customer's Azure tenant. This enhancement ensures faster, more reliable recoveries from cyber threats. Additionally, CyberSense Analytics expands to support Commvault client-direct backups of File Systems and SQL via DD Boost, enabling secure and efficient protection with immutable copies for enhanced resilience and rapid recovery.

Recovery processes also see significant improvements. PowerProtect Data Manager streamlines policy restoration, simplifies the management of multiple Data Domain systems and enhances recovery orchestration from a Cyber Recovery vault. These updates reduce complexity and dramatically improve recovery time objectives (RTOs), providing customers with faster, reliable data restoration and confidence in their operational continuity.

Bolstering security and usability with Data Domain Operating System enhancements

PowerProtect Data Domain Operating System enhances security and usability with SAML-based Single Sign-On, GUI-based Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card support and one-time password Multi-factor Authentication with Google and Microsoft. Updates also strengthen reliability with KMS cluster support for uninterrupted operations and simplify troubleshooting through an automated health check tool delivering a secure, efficient and streamlined experience.

NetWorker: Streamlined operations and advanced compliance

NetWorker introduces enhancements to boost performance, efficiency and security capabilities. Features include modernized tape and library management, orchestrated replication and high-density NAS administration. Compliance is fortified with OpenSSL 3.0 and support for JAVA JDK17 and JRE17 while multi-hypervisor support adds File Level Recovery for Hyper-V and improved resource monitoring. With performance upgrades for high-density NAS, CloudBoost enhancements and Data Domain Operating System 8.3 support, the release also offers granular level recovery for Microsoft SharePoint service applications which help ensure robust, streamlined operations across workloads.

Continued innovation supports a robust cyber resilience strategy

Dell Technologies continues to set the benchmark for how organizations can build scalable, cyber-resilient infrastructure to future-proof their operations. With solutions like PowerProtect Data Manager, PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and PowerProtect Data Domain, the PowerProtect portfolio provides organizations with the tools they need to protect their data and help ensure business continuity in the face of evolving cyber threats.

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