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Dell Data Protection Product Capability and Roadmap



Tech Field Day 9


This video is part of the appearance, “Dell Presents at Tech Field Day 9“. It was recorded as part of Tech Field Day 9 at 10:30-18:00 on June 19, 2013.


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Dell’s data protection team has made significant progress developing in-house capabilities and integrating technologies to deliver a consolidated and robust data protection portfolio. By leveraging key technologies from multiple acquisitions and developing a unified vision for backup, replication, and recovery, Dell aims to provide the industry’s most comprehensive and integrated data protection solutions suited for enterprises, mid-market businesses, and end-user devices.

In his presentation at Tech Field Day 9, Srinidhi Varadarajan outlined Dell’s evolution in the data protection space—transforming from a reseller into a developer of a tightly integrated suite of backup and disaster recovery products. Dell’s approach focuses on modernizing traditional backup by integrating deduplication, replication, and virtualization support, with attention to performance, user manageability, and flexibility across environments. The strategy involves consolidating a previously overlapping product portfolio of eleven products into three targeted lines: one for SMB and mid-market, another for enterprise, and a third for endpoint protection on laptops and desktops. Each product line is designed with interoperability in mind, ensuring customers can scale or transition without losing features or data compatibility.

Varadarajan emphasized how Dell leverages acquisitions such as AppAssure, SonicWall, V-Ranger, NetVault, and Ocarina to provide intelligent deduplication, image-based backup, data recovery, and flexibility for physical-to-cloud and virtual-to-cloud workflows. The roadmap includes making disaster recovery more robust, with capabilities like cloud-based VM resurrection and application-level consistency checks. Dell also acknowledged past challenges, particularly early quality issues with AppAssure 5, and committed to improved support and engineering practices going forward. The overall vision is to make backup and disaster recovery seamless, efficient, and centrally manageable, with recovery capabilities that emphasize operational continuity and rapid restoration across use cases.

Personnel: Srinidhi Varadarajan


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