When Dell Technologies  released its Global Data Protection Index 2020 Snapshot earlier this year, a couple of findings stood out. Businesses were now managing 40% more data than a year ago, and the cost of data loss had grown to over $1 million per organization.

Facing that kind of risk, enterprises need effective enterprise data protection solutions. Dell recently announced new updates for its PowerProtect data protection platform that are designed to provide simplicity and speed in what has become a rapidly expanding market.

“It’s all about combining protection storage and protection software in a single converged, all-in-one offering,” said Caitlin Gordon (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Dell Technologies. “It’s really popular with our customers today because of the simplicity, the ability to really modernize your data protection in a very simple way to get up and running quickly. In fact, it’s the fastest-growing part of the backup appliance market.”

Gordon spoke with Lisa Martin, host of SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming video studio theCUBE. They discussed updates for Dell’s PowerProtect hardware lineup and enhancements for the firm’s data protection software offerings. (* Disclosure below.)

Improved performance and efficiency

The latest updates include new integrated appliances for Dell’s PowerProtect DP series. The appliances have been architected to accommodate modern data workflow protections while removing complexity.

“There’s four models in the new DP series, and it’s all about getting better performance and better efficiency,” Gordon explained. “We’ve got new hardware-assisted compression, denser drives and all of that gives us the ability to get faster backups and faster recovery. In fact, you get 38% faster backups, 45% faster recovery, 30% more logical capacity, 65 to 1 deduplication and 60,000 input/output operations per second for instant access.”

Dell also announced enhancements on the software side. Customers will now have added support for workloads among several of the major cloud providers and VMware Tanzu as part of updates for PowerProtect Data Manager, along with Kubernetes protections at the cluster level.

“It has the ability to deploy in Azure, in AWS GovCloud for in-cloud protection,” Gordon said. “With VMware, we’re able to integrate with storage-based policy management, really automating and simplifying VMware protection. No matter where the data lives, no matter what service-level agreement, whether it’s a physical or virtual appliance, whether it’s target or integrated, you’ve got them in the PowerProtect family now.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations. (* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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