In today’s hyper-connected world, cyber threats are no longer just a possibility they’re an inevitability. Organisations across industries are grappling with increasingly sophisticated attacks that disrupt operations, compromise sensitive data and erode trust.
By Musa Masungwini, senior system engineer: data protection solutions for sub-Saharan Africa at Dell Technologies
A whopping 88% of organisations expect GenAI to explode data volumes, yet 65% of these same organisations back up less than 50% of their data. For business leaders, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Staying competitive in this volatile environment requires more than just innovation it demands innovation that’s built on a foundation of cyber resilience.
South African organisations are facing similar data management issues; however, there is a strong drive to address these challenges. According to the South African Generative AI Roadmap 2025, 59% of local AI use cases are centred on data analysis, indicating an awareness of the importance of containing the explosion of data volumes as well as the need to protect enterprise data.
Security is no longer a back-office concern; it’s a strategic enabler. Without it, innovation stalls, and businesses are left vulnerable to the growing tide of cyber risks. To thrive, organisations need more than traditional cybersecurity measures they need a comprehensive approach to cyber resilience.
Dell Technologies helps businesses to minimise risk and ensure continuity with the latest advancements in the PowerProtect portfolio, including the Data Domain All-Flash appliance and updates to cyber resilience software.
The Dell PowerProtect portfolio includes Data Domain purpose-built backup appliances, delivering robust cyber resilience and management both on-premises and across multicloud environments.
PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash
The PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash appliance is built on the Data Domain platform.
Key benefits include:
- Unparalleled performance: Up to 4x faster data restores and 2x faster replication, ensuring minimal downtime during recovery. The appliance also delivers up to 2.8x faster analytics to validate data integrity in a PowerProtect Cyber Recovery vault.
- Space and energy efficiency: Occupies 40% less rack space and provides up to 80% power savings, while achieving up to 65:1 data reduction.
- Advanced security features: Built-in data immutability, encryption, and hardware root of trust ensure that data remains tamper-proof.
- Seamless integration: Native compatibility with Dell PowerStore and PowerMax for fast, efficient, and secure backup and recovery, plus an extensive backup software ecosystem.
- Broad DD Boost ecosystem: Enables seamless integration, advanced efficiency, and collaborative innovation for greater flexibility and growth.
Enhancements to PowerProtect portfolio
Recent updates to the PowerProtect portfolio further strengthen its ability to deliver end-to-end cyber resilience:
- PowerProtect Data Manager: New features add ecosystem, security and virtualisation enhancements, including support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) deployment, a SUSE deployment option for Dell PowerMax and archive to object proxies, and archive to object support for Wasabi with Dell ObjectScale.
- PowerProtect Cyber Recovery: Enhancements address critical challenges in ransomware recovery and operational efficiency, including support for the PowerProtect Data Domain All-Flash appliance, and CyberSense Analytics support for Commvault client-direct backups of Oracle databases.
- PowerProtect Backup Services: Backup Services now enables you to leverage Microsoft Azure Storage as a backup target, in addition to AWS. Backup Services also offers seamless backup and granular item-level recovery for Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling restoration to both production sites and sandbox environments. In addition to Dynamics 365, Backup Services delivers trusted cyber resilience for Microsoft 365, Azure VMs and Entra ID, unifying your Microsoft data management under a single, reliable platform.
These enhancements reflect Dell’s unwavering dedication to help organisations stay resilient, no matter how complex their IT environments or cyber challenges may be.