Data resiliency is essential in today’s always-connected business world, not just an added luxury. In a recent TechTarget Survey of IT professionals, cybersecurity and resiliency ranked as top concerns. In fact, forty-four percent of them considered it a primary justification for upcoming IT investments.
Since downtime can crumble operations, and data loss can tarnish reputations and halt productivity, it’s no surprise that organizations want the infrastructure to protect themselves, their company, and their customer data. Thankfully, Dell PowerStore stands out as the ultimate solution for enterprise resiliency.
Dell PowerStore: Where Uncompromising Hardware Meets Innovative Software
With Dell PowerStore’s redundant architecture, customers enjoy 99.9999% uptime to guard against failure. However, thanks to the company’s Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE), customers no longer need to manage the complexity of traditional RAID scenarios.
The fully software-based Dell PowerStore Dynamic Resiliency Engine changes the data protection playing field in a variety of ways:
Powerful Protection Policies
PowerStore’s simple yet powerful protection policies combine five types of data protection, including secure and immutable local snapshots, synchronous replication, asynchronous replication, remote storage direct backup, and cloud-based storage direct backup.
Secure Snapshots
When organizations need to restore data quickly, local recovery is the answer. Dell Technologies’ data snapshots resist deletion or alteration until specified dates, making them available for rapid and secure access. Over prior generations, Dell Technologies’ latest PowerStore offering supports up to 3x more snapshots and 8x more replication volumes.
Easy Replication - Local and Remote
With Dell Technologies’ DRE, customers can replicate their block and file data synchronously and asynchronously, ensuring that virtually any workload remains protected. On local PowerStore arrays, organizations can enjoy File Level Retention (FLR), which enables compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule 17a-4(f). PowerStore customers can experience nondisruptive availability on remote arrays with Metro Volume synchronous replication over distances as long as 60 miles.
Intelligent Data Protection with PowerStore Metro Volume
Dell Technologies’ native PowerStore Metro Volume architecture enables active-active storage across a metropolitan area without requiring additional equipment or software. The system allows for automated recovery from either site without manual intervention. Linux and Windows workloads are supported along with VMware, and protection is provided for groups and individual volumes. As a result, any critical workload can be secure from disruption or data loss. Overall, the system sets up quickly with approximately six clicks.
With Metro Volume’s third site witness server, customers can launch independent servers to monitor and verify replication and failover activities between two sites to support the highest availability requirements. As a result, the split-brain scenarios that can occur during site failures can be eliminated, thanks to the witness server monitoring both sites, knowing which server users still have access to, and routing I/O services appropriately.
Zero Trust Security
Of course, the first step to data protection is blocking would-be attackers before they can do damage. At the hardware level, PowerStore incorporates native, hardware-based, data-at-rest encryption down to the drive level, with secure boot chain of trust and root of trust. Further, threat detection comes courtesy of CEPA antivirus software.
Access control is highly manageable with multi-factor authentication (MFA), lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) support, and role-based access control (RBAC). As a result, access to critical data is only given to the proper personnel. As a result of its robust security features, PowerStore meets the Department of Defense Approved Product List requirements. Other PowerStore security certifications include security technical implementation guides (STIGs), NIST USGv6-r1, and Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2.
More Reasons to Address Data Protection and Resiliency Today
With ransomware attacks occurring every 11 seconds, it is time to reconsider your organization’s data security posture. Dell Technologies’ research indicates that 83% of all businesses have been impacted by a security attack in the past year, with the average cost of an attack totaling as high as $2.6 million.
Protect and Secure Enterprise Data with Dell Technologies and UNICOM Engineering
A long-term Dell Technologies partner, UNICOM Engineering provides on-the-ground technical expertise worldwide for design, deployment, and support. Their experts help ensure Dell Technologies storage solutions and other hardware are implemented on time and spec for their customers.
By integrating Dell PowerStore and its Dynamic Resliency Engine into comprehensive solutions tailored for diverse industries, UNICOM Engineering ensures your data storage keeps pace with the demands of AI and other modern applications. Whether facilitating faster time-to-market for technology innovators or providing end-to-end support for complex deployments, UNICOM Engineering is at the forefront of bringing these cutting-edge technologies to life.
Contact UNICOM Engineering today to learn how your organization can fully protect and leverage its data.