Podcast #121: Simplifying Data Protection with an Integrated Appliance

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We recently spent some time with the Dell PowerProtect Appliance, posting an in-depth review that illustrates the operational simplicity often overlooked when securing mission-critical data. Dell put a lot of thought into ensuring simplicity in the setup, configuration, and management of the PowerProtect Appliance. The intuitive interface walks a user through the entire process, from installation to data protection.

We recently spent some time with the Dell PowerProtect Appliance, posting an in-depth review that illustrates the operational simplicity often overlooked when securing mission-critical data. Dell put a lot of thought into ensuring simplicity in the setup, configuration, and management of the PowerProtect Appliance. The intuitive interface walks a user through the entire process, from installation to data protection.

Brian went to Hopkinson to get an up-close introduction to the new PowerProtect Appliance and was duly impressed with the design and the software that powers the appliance. As a follow-up, Brian invited David Noy, the Vice President of Product Management at Dell Technologies, to join him for a podcast and find out what went into the design and where the product is headed in the future. The discussion gives us a better understanding of this seamlessly integrated appliance that can be up and running in just 15 minutes, ensuring data protection from the start.

David has been with Dell Technologies since 2021, but this was an encore, having worked with Dell EMC between 2012 and 2017. His background covers data protection and storage, so this was a perfect fit. David spent time with Cohesity and Veritas in a previous life, and before rejoining Dell, he was the Vice President of Product Management At VAST Data. A solid history working with data storage and securing that data.

Securing data is a critical topic, and this podcast covers topics that help Dell stay at the top of its game. Give it a listen, but if you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing, check the timestamps below to jump to the topics that interest you.

00:00 Introduction

• Product background
  • Hardware
  • Software
• PDM -PowerProtect Data Manager
• Protect Data Domain
• Virtualization, cloud, containers

05:00 Reducing cloud backups

• Storing images for security
• Ability to scale
• IDPA
• Steps to a fully integrated solution
• Keeping it simple

10:00 Consolidating functions

• The litmus test to determine ease of use
• Consistent results in getting PowerProtect up and running
• Our interaction with PowerProtect Appliance
• Disparate teams working together
• Hardware descriptions
  • Built on PowerEdge Server
  • Future proof
• Penetration testing

15:00 Cybersecurity

• Integration with the cyber stack
• Snapshots
• Speed of backup and restore
• Easier licensing model
• Planned growth
• Built to be containerized
• Product focus
• Expanding enterprise markets

20:00 What customers ask for

• Targeting backup between 200-800 TB
• Maybe up to a petabyte
• Five PB versus five one PB backup
• Cloud protection
• Cyber protection vault
• Driving cloud consumption
• Ability to tier and replicate
• AI and retail
• Use case for internal cloud

25:00 Kubernetes integration

• Next-generation data protection
• NAS
• Adding support for Hadoop
• Workload support
• On-prem vs. public cloud
• Cloud Snapshot manager

30:00 Unifying management on a single product

• Multicloud strategy
• Protecting multi-availability zones, multiple regions
• Make a plan and test it

35:00 Create and test the playbook

• Integration with other Dell products
• Better Together story
• Giving customers choices

40:00 Data Mobility

• How to orchestrate mobility
• Simple, secure, modern, resilient
• The importance of resilience
• How to get hands-on

45:00 Conclusion

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