Want a 2022 prediction? PowerProtect Data Manager will just keep growing strength-to-strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It wasn’t just Data Manager that got some enhancements, though. Cloud Snapshot Manager got the ability to rollover Cloud snapshots to DDVE<\/a><\/strong> – a game changer if you want to keep long-term retention copies of IaaS snapshots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And let’s not forget, NetWorker, DPA and DPC got substantial updates<\/strong><\/a> this year, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was also, unsurprisingly, a big year for cyber crime, which meant Dell’s Cyber Recovery solution was a common discussion point with my customers all through the year. Everyone is focused on providing immutable, air-gapped protection for their backups, and Dell’s Cyber Vault absolutely leads that pack<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dell’s PowerProtect Backup Service<\/a><\/strong> also launched in 2021, and it’s a must if you need to protect Salesforce, GSuite, Microsoft 365, or for that matter, endpoints within your organisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, not forgetting hardware, Dell’s released the PowerProtect DD 6400<\/a><\/strong>, a new deduplication appliance that includes the hardware accelerated compression card and<\/em> automatic cloud tier licensing, with a starting size of just 8TB usable, scaling up to 172TB usable, in increments as low as 4TB. I think the automatic inclusion of Cloud Tier licensing with the platform is a fantastic idea, particularly for smaller businesses. And the granular capacity increases will allow those smaller businesses to scale the platform in an extremely cost-effective way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Personally, it’s been a big year for more. Or perhaps I should say it’s been a smaller <\/em>year for me. I made 2021 about getting healthier, and so far I’m fitter than I’ve ever been, have more core strength than I’ve ever had, and I’m down 48kg. (Around 106lbs if you use that scale.) Keto was a good start on that. Pivoting from stress eating to stress exercising definitely helped. And so too has having daily access to a PowerPlate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I probably spent more time in meetings this year than I ever had before; and since I was still working from home the entire time, there wasn’t much travel associated with those meetings – unless you count walking upstairs before the meeting to get another cup of coffee. So starting every day with some work on the PowerPlate has been a huge lifesaver for me for handling all those hours sitting at my desk facing a webcam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"PowerPlate](\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Power-Plate-Pro5.png\")
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