Dell DDVE Software

This solution is for customers whose growing business is experiencing explosive data growth and facing new demands such as Big Data and Cloud, all while being pressured to reduce costs and meet stringent service level agreements. Dell EMC PowerProtect DD series appliances are the solution for these challenges. DD Series is the ultimate protection storage appliance. DD series is the next generation of Data Domain appliances from Dell EMC, the #1 customer choice in data protection for the past decade. Dell EMC PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE) is a software-defined data protection appliance that delivers to you the benefits of the worlds most trusted protection storage and the agility, flexibility and efficiency that can be deployed on your own hardware or in the cloud.

DDVE maintains all of the core differentiating features of DD series. DDVE is fast and simple to download, deploy and configure, and can be up and running in minutes on any standard server, converged or hyper-converged system, or in the cloud. DDVE delivers increased transactional and operational efficiencies, reliability and lowers your total cost of ownership (TCO) by utilizing object storage in addition to block storage.

DDVE will provide customers with the following benefits:

Simple, Flexible, and Efficient ‒ configures and deploys in minutes; provides differentiating features of DD series like deduplication; grows as you scale in 1TB increments; runs on commodity servers, converged and hyper converged systems

Virtualized and Cloud Environments ‒ supports multiple hypervisors (VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM); runs in AWS, AWS GovCloud, Azure, Azure Government Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and VMware Cloud on AWS

Transactional and Operational Efficiencies ‒ ability to write or backup data into the object store directly in addition to block storage; supports AWS S3 and Azure Hot Blob object stores

Manageability ‒ provides a single point of management with PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC); configures and deploys using VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Manager. Integrates with Dell EMC CloudIQ for proactive monitoring.