26 facts you should know about the

Dell Data Protection Portfolio.

Your data has different needs associated with it – some is critical and is quickly needed to run the business, some is less important and access can be slower.Dell’s approach to data protection is based on the premise that not all data is created equal.

With that in mind, we’ve built a portfolio of products such as AppAssure™, NetVault™ Backup, and the DR and DL families of purpose-built backup and recovery appliances to help you protect your data and focus your time on your business, not your backup.

Read on to find out how Dell can help you match your backup to your business.

1 Dell Data Protection software is trusted by more than 82,000 customers globally, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

As a matter of fact, one of the top 3 Internet search providers puts so much trust in Dell Data Protection Software they use NetVault Backup to protect 400 petabytes of data.

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With Dell Data Protection software, customers have reported saving more than 70% on professional services costs and software maintenance costs.

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Dell Data Protection is the only vendor that lets you match your backup to your business.

At Dell, we don’t believe in the “one size fits all” approach to data protection software, and we don’t think you should be complacent with it either. Dell is the only vendor to offer a portfolio of proven backup and recovery solutions designed to help customers match their backup to their business, saving time, reducing risk and nearly eliminating data loss.

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Dell Data Protection software received a Storage Magazine 2013 Quality Award.

Storage Magazine named Dell AppAssure the top midrange backup and recovery software solution in its 2013 Quality Awards competition.

Dell AppAssure prevailed over six other finalists and 28 total solutions in the midrange category, earning high marks for product quality, features, reliability and technical support.

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Dell Data Protection delivers fast and simple restores.

“The device [Dell DR4x00 disk backup appliance] works very well, indeed. Restores are fast and simple, given the data is sitting on a local hard disk…wonderful addition to our backup strategy.”

- Joe Hagan, IT Professional, University of Southern Indiana

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Dell Data Protection can help lower administrative overhead.

60% of Dell NetVault customers spend 2 hours or less per week monitoring and managing backups.

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Dell Data Protection protects Microsoft Exchange environments so you can get all of your email back fast.

Dell AppAssure allows users to begin using Exchange in 15 minutes or less after a failure regardless of how much data is involved.

For even faster recoveries, AppAssure’s powerful replication function allows you to simply turn on a preconfigured, up-to-date spare VM machine if your Exchange Server goes down. AppAssure ensures reliable and consistent backups of Exchange 2003/2007 SP1 Rollup 5 through to Exchange 2013.

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Dell Data Protection can cut backup times in half.

Combining NetVault Backup with the DR4100 appliance dramatically decreases backup times with a data ingest speed of up to 7.5TB/hr. It can also speed restores—with restore rates as high as 2TB/hr.

The DR4100 integrates seamlessly with Dell’s NetVault Backup software. NetVault provides cross-platform backup and recovery of physical and virtual environments from a single, intuitive console and supports a wide range of backup targets and business-critical applications.

The Dell DR4100 Rapid Data Access (RDA) software plug-in (included at no additional charge with NetVault capacity editions) enables even tighter integration, and additional benefits.

ESG Lab Review, Dell Integrated Data Protection: DR4100 with NetVault, September 2013

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Dell Data Protection is easy to use.

According to a ESG Lab Validation report, the DL 4000 deploy-ment process can take less than 20 minutes, of which less than ten minutes requires user interaction.

The DL4000 is a fully configured, 1U backup appliance that inte-grates 5.5TB of storage capacity and two standby virtual machines together with Dell’s award-winning AppAssure data protection software, so you can quickly recover applications and data.

Enterprise Strategy Group, Lab Validation Report, Dell DL4000, July 2013

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10 Dell Data Protection helps customers save time and money.

“We need only one person to check and operate the backup process, which takes one to two hours each day using NetVault Backup. This 93 percent time savings translates into maintenance cost savings.”

- Sven Dietrich, CC Infrastructure Manager, RUAG Services

RUAG Services case study

Dell Data Protection software was a finalist in the “Best of VMworld 2013” awards in the Storage and Backup for Virtualized Environments category with Dell AppAssure 5.3.3.

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12 Dell Data Protection provides no-fuss backup and recovery.

“NetVault just works. We don’t have to fuss with it much once it is installed and configured correctly.”

– Robby Wright, Chief Technology Officer, Abtech Systems

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Dell Data Protection provides 288 snapshots of your critical machines per day.

Dell AppAssure lets you restore an entire server from a backup with an RTO of seconds and up to 288 recovery points a day to deliver an RPO of minutes.

“Just a couple nights ago, there was a hiccup in the SQL server and it wasn’t coming back on after a reboot. My admin said, ‘I don’t panic because I know what Dell AppAssure can do.’ It was all taken care of in less than 15 minutes. That was nice.”

- Dave Buzzell, Chief Information Officer, The Sedona Group

The Sedona Group case study

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14 Dell Data Protection reduces your backup storage footprint by up to 15:1.

The Dell DR4100 disk backup appliance is a high-performance, disk-based backup and disaster recovery appliance with built-in, inline deduplication and compression. The built-in deduplication and compression technologies enable customers to achieve typical data reduction levels of 15:1 (up to 32:1 in some circumstances), enabling more backup data to be retained for longer periods in the same footprint.

ESG Lab Review, Dell Integrated Data Protection: DR4100 with NetVault, September 2013

Dell Data Protection eliminates the need for adminis-trators to validate their Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint backups.

Every night, Dell AppAssure Recovery Assure™ automatically tests and verifies that backup files and their applications are fully re-coverable if disaster strikes.

Recovery Assure technology tests the data that is being backed for certain Microsoft applications (Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint). Testing is done by actually mounting the application with the backed-up data. Users are notified if there are errors, so that they can be corrected before the data is needed in a disaster.

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Dell Data Protection helps customers spend less time on backups.

“…94 percent less time spent managing backup and recovery, and I can devote more of my attention to more valuable projects.”

- Lakhvir Rai, Systems Administrator II, Pacific Biosciences

Pacific Biosciences case study

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Dell Data Protection can save time.

55% of customers installed Dell NetVault Backup and configured their first backup in 3 hours or less.

NetVault Backup is simple to deploy, manage, and upgrade. You can get up and running a matter of hours, and its modular architecture makes it easy to upgrade to meet growing environment and chang-ing recovery objectives. The simple architecture allows users to tailor the configuration to improve performance and take advantage of their existing network topology and storage hardware. And NetVault Backup requires minimal training to become an expert.

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Dell Data Protection can increase your backup success rate.

9 out of 10 IT organizations who replaced Symantec NetBackup with Dell NetVault Backup increased their backup success rate.

NetVault Backup is a comprehensive backup and recovery solu-tion that allows organizations to protect data in very large and diverse IT environments—all from one intuitive console. Unlike other enterprise backup solutions, NetVault is straightforward to deploy and manage, yet it still offers excellent performance and can easily scale to protect environments with petabytes of data.

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Dell Data Protection shrinks backup windows.

Mädler GmbH, a German a manufacturer and supplier of machinery components for the automotive and printing indus-tries throughout Germany and Europe, eliminated their backup window while achieving 13-fold year-one return on investment with Dell AppAssure.

“We don’t have backup windows anymore, and there has been no noticeable loss of network performance, even with the machines backing up every five minutes, thanks to Dell AppAssure.”

- Ralph Eggeling, IT Manager, Mädler GmbH

Mädler GmbH case study

 

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Dell Data Protection gives you the ability to have a clone of your production server so you’ll be back up and running quickly if needed. With Dell AppAssure Virtual Standby™, you can create and maintain an up-to-date virtual standby machine for fast disaster recovery for all of your Windows and Linux workloads including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL.

“We can recover a system fast through AppAssure’s Virtual Standby. The feature is a must—it makes Dell AppAssure stand out against the competition.” - Marc De Schryver, Computer Services & Infrastructure Manager, Sonoco Alcore

Sonoco Alcore case study

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Dell Data Protection is innovative.

Rapid Data Access (RDA) is a software plug-in that allows deduplication to be performed at the source, dramatically reduc-ing bandwidth needed to transport backup data over a network.

Another Dell on Dell “better together” story – integration of Dell NetVault Backup software with RDA technology and DR family is the latest innovation to incorporate our deduplication intellectual property – future integrations with other Dell data protection soft-ware products are planned.

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Dell Data Protection provides up to a 120% improve-ment in replicating virtual machines to the cloud.

In cloud environments using Amazon EC2, Dell AppAssure 5 can save you time and bandwidth. This is done by protecting your current running instances and also replicating the backups from one region/zone to a separate region/zone for additional recoverability and availability.

For example, a 300GB server over a 100mbps link would take 7 hours 9 minutes to replicate. With AppAssure that would be 75GB (~75% reduction) and would only take approximately 1 hour 47 minutes to replicate.

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Dell Data Protection updates virtual standbys of your critical machines every 5 minutes to the cloud.

Using an AppAssure Core in the cloud allows you to convert your mission critical machines to virtual standby every time a snapshot is taken. In the event of a system or site failure, these virtual standby machines can be powered on and have you up and running in just moments.

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Dell Data Protection can help reduce time and cost.

The City of Atlanta deployed the Dell™ DR4000 appliance helping to cut data backup time by 70 percent and reduce storage expense by 60 percent.

City of Atlanta case study

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Dell Data Protection can automate data storage, and deduplicate and compress data so that more information can be stored.

Yeovil District Hospital in the UK deployed the Dell DR4100 disk backup appliance to ensure that clinicians and staff are better sup-ported, and the hospital can continue delivering excellent services using even if the unexpected strikes their core infrastructure. “Our deduplication and compression figures are around 90 per cent. That means we’ve fitted around 164 terabytes of data on 16 terabytes of disk space with our Dell solution,”

- James Pardon, System Administrator, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust case study

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Dell Data Protection allows you to build your own cloud, wherever and whenever.

AppAssure allows you to set up and use as many AppAssure Core servers as you want at no additional cost. This allows you to replicate between as many Cores as you like — onsite, offsite, public cloud, and private cloud.

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