PowerProtect Data Manager 19.8

Continuing the regular update cycle for PowerProtect Data Manager, version 19.8 has been released, and it’s got some great new…

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Basics – PowerProtect Data Manager vSphere Plugin

Have you seen Good Omens? I haven’t read the book but watched the TV series last year, and there was…

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Ransomware: Stop Counting on Cyber Insurance

Government regulators in most countries can be slow to get moving, but when they do, they can cause significant changes…

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Basics – Avamar and Microsoft SQL Server Recoveries

I’ve had a need in the last few days to run up some tests using Avamar to recover SQL Server…

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Introductory Considerations to Cyber Resiliency

It’s fair to say that a significant number of my customer conversations this year have been centred around cyber resiliency.…

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Basics: Backup Lifecycle

In the various backup/data protection groups I hang around on, I periodically see the “I’m new to backup, what do…

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PowerProtect Backup Service Launches

The PowerProtect Backup Service — a SaaS-based backup platform, has launched. Using this platform, Dell EMC customers can protect critical…

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PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager Gets Deduplication

I sometimes go into meetings with new customers who think of Dell EMC just as a hardware company. These businesses…

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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.7

Introduction There have been a slew of updates announced on the Dell Data Protection front this week, and this post…

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Data Protection and the Cloud Shared Responsibility Model

The shared responsibility model in public cloud is well known. But does it work for data protection? In sort, no – there’s some work to do there.

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