According to research firm IDC Research Inc., Dell Technologies Inc. has been the market leader by revenue in purpose-built backup appliances for as long as IDC has been tracking the category. The research firm’s 2020 market results, released in April, showed Dell in firm position with a 47% market share.

Dell’s position in the backup market has been further enhanced by its Data Protection Suite, which offers replication, disaster recovery and backup for cloud and on-premises environments. The suite is based around three central elements. Avamar provides backup and recovery through variable-length deduplication technology; NetWorker software centralizes, automates and accelerates the backup recovery process; and PowerProtect Data Manager offers software-defined data protection and governance.

“All three of these capabilities are the foundation of our Data Protection Suite,” said Laura DuBois (pictured), vice president of product management at Dell. “Enterprises around the world rely on these sets of capabilities to protect their data, regardless of where it resides. It’s central now more than ever in the face of increasing security risks and compliance and the need for an always-available environment.”

DuBois spoke with Lisa Martin, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, for a digital CUBE Conversation. They discussed the need to protect data across multiple environments and future plans to extend Dell’s backup and recovery capabilities. (* Disclosure below.)

Exabytes under management

Dell has built its suite of services to account for the reality that data protection is now required in a growing number of repositories.

“Increasingly, customers are placing their data in a variety of locations, on edge, in core datacenters and in cloud environments,” DuBois said. “We have over six exabytes of capacity under management across public cloud environments.”

To put six exabytes in perspective, one exabyte can store 341 billion three-minute MP3 music cuts. That represents a lot of data to protect and recover if necessary, so Dell is planning some additional announcements later this year around extension of its data protection capabilities, according to DuBois.

“We’re doing some very interesting integrations with VMware; we’re going to have some first and only announcements around VMware and managing protection for VM environments,” DuBois said. “You can look forward to hearing more about that.”

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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