Driving the next wave of cyber resilience with PowerProtect innovations
This post first appeared on the Dell blog.
By Tom Giuliano
tl;dr: Comprehensive Cyber Resilience: The Dell PowerProtect portfolio offers a multi-layered defense to secure, detect, and recover from cyber threats, ensuring protection from edge to core to cloud. Innovative Enhancements: New features like Dell NativeEdge integration, anomaly detection dashboard, and expanded cloud support strengthen security, simplify operations, and enhance scalability. Market-Leading Performance: PowerProtect Data Manager and Data Domain deliver industry-leading deduplication, scalability, and cost efficiency, providing a strong ROI and unmatched data protection. Future-Ready Solutions: With advancements like the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance and enhanced ransomware protection, Dell empowers organizations to build a resilient, secure, and innovative future.
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In the face of escalating cyber threats, building a resilient organization is no longer just an IT issue—it’s a core business strategy. The ability to protect critical data and recover quickly after an attack is what defines success and ensures business continuity. This is particularly important, as 79% of organizations are concerned that they will experience a disruptive event in the next twelve months.¹
Dell Technologies is committed to helping you build that resilience. With the PowerProtect portfolio, we provide the trusted foundation you need to stay protected, recover faster, and operate with confidence. Our latest innovations deliver smarter, faster protection, simplified operations through intelligent automation, and the flexibility your business needs to safeguard its data. This is how you achieve mission-critical cyber resilience.
A comprehensive approach to cyber resilience
A strong defense requires more than just a single tool; it demands a comprehensive portfolio designed to work together seamlessly. The Dell PowerProtect portfolio, powered by industry-leading software, provides a multi-layered defense to secure, detect, and recover from cyber threats. It’s built for growth and designed to protect your operations from edge to core to cloud.
The PowerProtect portfolio is a market leader, with PowerProtect Data Manager ranking #1 in total cost of ownership and performance at scale.² Meanwhile, Data Domain is also #1 in total cost of ownership, as well as security and support.³ This recognition reflects our commitment to providing solutions that deliver real-world value and a strong return on investment (ROI).
Delivering the next wave of innovation
We are raising the bar again with new enhancements across the PowerProtect portfolio. These innovations are designed to give your organization a competitive advantage by strengthening your security posture and streamlining cyber resilience.
PowerProtect Data Manager
PowerProtect Data Manager is a cornerstone of modern cyber resilience. The latest release introduces key enhancements to expand its ecosystem, security, and scalability.
- Dell NativeEdge integration: We are delivering the industry’s first co-engineered cyber resilience solution for edge computing.4 This provides image-level backup and recovery for virtual machines (VMs) on Dell NativeEdge infrastructure, closing a critical protection gap for edge workloads.
- Nutanix AHV protection: We’re extending enterprise-grade cyber resilience to Nutanix hyperconverged environments through native Prism Central integration. This unified multi-hypervisor approach, simplifies management by eliminating the need for separate backup solutions, enabling organizations to maintain consistent protection capabilities across diverse virtualization platforms.
- Anomaly Detection review analysis page: This new security analysis interface transforms backup operations into security intelligence. It streamlines ransomware investigation with centralized anomaly management and actionable workflows, accelerating your incident response.
- Archive to Object enhancements: Extend long-term retention with Microsoft Azure support for VMs, file systems and SQL Server workloads, as well as AIX platform support, enabling cost-efficient, consistent data lifecycle management across diverse infrastructures.
In addition to these software updates, we are announcing the availability of the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance, which represents the best way to achieve cyber resilience with Dell PowerProtect via an integrated appliance offer. Designed for scalability, flexibility, and performance, the Data Manager Appliance unifies protection and management in a single, streamlined experience, reducing management overhead by 50%.5 With centralized control of PowerProtect Data Manager and Data Domain, organizations gain consistent operations through an easy-to-manage interface.
PowerProtect Backup Services
Our cloud-native SaaS solution is now even more flexible, with enhancements designed to protect your hybrid and cloud workloads.
- Support for Azure Blob Storage: We now offer agentless, cloud-native SaaS protection for workloads in Microsoft Azure, giving organizations more storage options and operational simplicity.
- Advanced Ransomware Add-on for GovCloud and hybrid workloads: This new add-on broadens our offering for government agencies, providing robust ransomware protection for hybrid workloads in specialized, highly secure cloud environments.
PowerProtect Data Domain Operating System
The software that powers our market-leading Data Domain appliances is now even better with several new capabilities.
- Secure Snapshot for VTL: This feature enables immutability for Virtual Tape Libraries. It leverages the speed and efficiency of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and all-flash storage to protect backups against threats or human error without impacting backup applications.
- Expanded cloud support: Data Domain Virtual Edition capacity has increased to 384TB on Azure for consolidating backups. This, along with AWS M7i instance support, helps you leverage the cloud for larger workloads while reducing compute costs.
PowerProtect Cyber Recovery and CyberSense
A critical component of any resilience strategy is the ability to recover from a destructive cyberattack. PowerProtect Cyber Recovery enables you to secure critical data in an isolated, air-gapped vault. The latest updates to Cyber Recovery and CyberSense deliver enhanced security and operational efficiency.
- Enhanced data security: We remain committed to strengthening your cyber resilience and security measures, enabling organizations to securely vault and restore HYCU-created backups, ensuring the recoverability of critical workloads across diverse environments in the event of a cyberattack or data loss.
- Operational efficiency: Support vaulting to 384TB of Data Domain Virtual Edition in Azure and enabling the management of a single CyberSense server across multiple Cyber Recovery servers, help to optimize resource allocation and improve operations.
Build your more resilient future
In a world of escalating cyber threats, standing still is not an option. The latest innovations across the Dell PowerProtect portfolio empower your organization to build a robust cyber resilience strategy that drives your business forward. By providing smarter, faster, and more efficient cyber resilience, we help you safeguard your most valuable asset—your data—so you can focus on what matters most: innovation and growth.
These enhancements are more than just new features; they represent our commitment to providing the tools you need to stay secure in an ever-changing digital landscape. We believe in the power of technology to help your organization achieve its goals, and with Dell PowerProtect, you can build a future that is both innovative and secure.
1 2025 Dell Cyber Resilience Insights, September 2025
2 Compared to Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, and Commvault using double-blinded, competitive benchmark Net Promoter Score (NPS) data gathered by third-party commissioned by Dell. August 2025
3 Based on Dell Technologies analysis in August 2025, compared to VAST, Pure Storage, NetApp, HPE using double-blinded, competitive benchmark Net Promoter Score (NPS) data gathered by third-party commissioned by Dell for 1H FY26
4 Based on Dell internal analysis of available backup solutions with Dell NativeEdge integration, October 2025
5 Based on Dell internal analysis, October 2025
About the Author: Tom Giuliano
Tom Giuliano is a Product Marketing Senior Consultant at Dell Technologies. With 25 years of IT industry experience, Tom has held roles in Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Marketing. During his 17 years with EMC and Dell Technologies, Tom has held Product Marketing roles in Storage and Cyber Resilience with focus on content creation, messaging, go to market and launch planning and execution. Tom holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering and an MBA and is located in the Boston area.
