PowerProtect Data Manager – Data Protection Software | Dell USA

Experience modern cyber resilience

Cyber threats can halt operations in minutes and cost millions in recovery. PowerProtect Data Manager goes beyond backup to secure data, detect threats before they spread, and orchestrate rapid recovery when it matters most. Built with resilience at its core, PowerProtect Data Manager delivers intelligent, simple, and agile protection across physical, virtual and multicloud environments. Focus on your next breakthrough with the confidence your data is protected.

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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager is the leader in customer satisfaction, total cost of ownership and performance at scale.

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“By using PowerProtect Data Manager, we were able to reduce our exchange backups from 4 hours to 20 minutes and overall reduce our backup windows significantly.” – Matthew Suire, Network Engineering and Operations Supervisor.

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"With a robust cyber resilience strategy and Dell's scalable, secure solutions, we can confidently adapt to change while protecting our most valuable asset—our data." — Rodrigo Soares, IT Operations Leader, Drogaria Araujo

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Back up and restore your data

Ensure your data is secured and available so you can accelerate your IT transformation.

Equip your business with key innovations for accelerated VM backup and restore, seamless Storage Direct Protection integration with Dell PowerStore and PowerMax, robust Dynamic NAS Protection, and AI protection. Fortify your business to thrive in any environment.

Empower data owners to perform self-service backup and restore operations from their native applications. Ensure compliance through centralized governance and automated discovery and protection of databases, VMs, file systems, cloud-native workloads, and Kubernetes.

Strengthen your business with a cyber resilience platform that adapts to new challenges and supports your growth. Data Manager’s intelligent approach helps detect threats, recover from incidents, and maintain peak performance, so you can focus on moving forward.

Innovative features

Transparent snapshots - PowerProtect Data Manager

Transparent snapshots - PowerProtect Data Manager

Transparent Snapshots simplifies virtual machine (VM) image backup, such as those for virtualized databases. Remove the need for external proxies while ensuring the availability of all your VMs - at scale and with near-zero impact to your IT environments.

Storage direct - PowerProtect Data Manager

Storage direct - PowerProtect Data Manager

Native integration with Dell PowerStore and Dell PowerMax delivers fast, efficient, and secure backup and recovery. Leveraging market-leading technology, Storage Direct Protection optimizes efficiency and simplifies management across diverse IT environments.

Dynamic NAS protection - PowerProtect Data Manager

Dynamic NAS protection - PowerProtect Data Manager

Protect your data with fast, efficient Anomaly Detection during backups. Powered by machine learning, it uncovers vulnerabilities before they escalate, maintaining system integrity without impacting performance.

Dynamic NAS protection - PowerProtect Data Manager

Dynamic NAS protection - PowerProtect Data Manager

Dynamic NAS Protection intelligently scales and slices your NAS assets into multiple streams while efficiently and automatically balancing loads. Achieve improved SLAs through simple, efficient management and exceptional performance with up to 3 times faster backups and up to 2 times faster restores.

Kubernetes data protection - PowerProtect Data Manager

Kubernetes data protection - PowerProtect Data Manager

Discover, backup, and restore your modern applications on-premises and in the public cloud. A single management console and agentless application consistency helps IT admins and DevOps protect containerized workloads efficiently, optimize performance, and reduce operational risks.

Recovery Orchestration - PowerProtect Data Manager

Recovery Orchestration - PowerProtect Data Manager

Recovery Orchestration provides simple, flexible and granular restores for your virtual environments. Recover data with precision, ensuring business continuity and reducing recovery time objectives on premises or in the public cloud.

Flexible consumption

PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance

PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance

Unify your cyber resilience experience with the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance. A single, easy-to-manage interface delivers consistent backup and storage operations, helping organizations of any size move forward with confidence.

Capacity scales up to 256TB.
The best way to achieve cyber resilience with Dell PowerProtect .

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PowerProtect Data Domain

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PowerProtect Data Domain

PowerProtect Data Manager can be combined with PowerProtect Data Domain to maximize performance and scalability. Reduce IT complexity and strengthen cyber resiliency across various IT environments for organizations of all sizes.

Capacity scales up to 1.5 PB.
Dell PowerProtect delivers the world's best data reduction.

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PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition

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PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition

Simplify operations and experience the enterprise-class cyber resilience capabilities of PowerProtect Data Manager to your preferred public clouds with PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition. Enhance agility and ensure self-service backup and restores tailored for a seamless multicloud environments.

Protects over 40 exabytes of data in the cloud .
Trusted by over 1900 customers to safeguard their data in the cloud .

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Test drive PowerProtect Data Manager

Experience PowerProtect Data Manager with self-paced virtual labs and guided demos.

Virtual labs

Try our cyber resilience software in free, real-time virtual environments

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Secure AI investments with purpose-built protection

AI workloads help drive innovation and must be protected. Data Manager, validated with Dell AI Factory and NVIDIA, delivers Kubernetes-native protection for RAG pipelines, GPU-accelerated VMs, and AI training data.

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Cyber resilience guarantees

Maximize your Dell Technologies cyber resilience investments with cyber recovery and data deduplication guarantees.

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Payment solutions

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PowerProtect Data Manager resources

Resources

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PowerProtect Data Manager technical library

Explore product documentation and videos with information on PowerProtect Data Manager deployment, configuration, administration, and disaster recovery.

ANALYST REPORT

Protect VM backups at scale

This ESG report explores the performance and cost efficiencies for virtual machines using Transparent Snapshots with PowerProtect Data Manager.

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PowerMax and PowerProtect overview video

Learn about fast, secure backups for PowerMax with PowerProtect. Enhance cyber resiliency with centralized management and immutability.

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Protect virtualized Microsoft SQL databases

PowerProtect Data Manager is best the choice for backup and restore of virtualized Microsoft SQL databases with Transparent Snapshots.

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Faster VMware backup and restore

When backing up and restoring data from a VMware virtual machine backup, Transparent Snapshots outperformed a competitor.

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PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerStore are better together

Dell PowerStore and PowerProtect Data Manager are better together. Simplify operations with an end-to-end cyber resilience integration.

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Simplify database protection

Discover how PowerProtect Data Manager simplifies database protection with self-service automation and application-aware backups for faster, more efficient IT operations.

LIBRARY

PowerProtect Data Manager technical library

Explore product documentation and videos with information on PowerProtect Data Manager deployment, configuration, administration, and disaster recovery.

ANALYST REPORT

Protect VM backups at scale

This ESG report explores the performance and cost efficiencies for virtual machines using Transparent Snapshots with PowerProtect Data Manager.

Video

PowerMax and PowerProtect overview video

Learn about fast, secure backups for PowerMax with PowerProtect. Enhance cyber resiliency with centralized management and immutability.

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Protect virtualized Microsoft SQL databases

PowerProtect Data Manager is best the choice for backup and restore of virtualized Microsoft SQL databases with Transparent Snapshots.

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Faster VMware backup and restore

When backing up and restoring data from a VMware virtual machine backup, Transparent Snapshots outperformed a competitor.

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PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerStore are better together

Dell PowerStore and PowerProtect Data Manager are better together. Simplify operations with an end-to-end cyber resilience integration.

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Simplify database protection

Discover how PowerProtect Data Manager simplifies database protection with self-service automation and application-aware backups for faster, more efficient IT operations.

Customer Stories

LAFAYETTE UTILITIES SYSTEM

Strengthening cyber resilience in mission-critical situations

Lafayette Utilities System implemented PowerProtect solutions to strengthen cyber security, protecting customer information and physical infrastructure data during cyberattacks and outages.

DROGARIA ARAUJO

Resilient pharmacy care, safeguarding vital health services

Drogaria Araujo relies on Dell PowerStore and PowerProtect to minimize risk and maximize customer experiences, improving recovery time by 75-80% while protecting against potential $2-3M daily revenue loss.

LAFAYETTE UTILITIES SYSTEM

Strengthening cyber resilience in mission-critical situations

Lafayette Utilities System implemented PowerProtect solutions to strengthen cyber security, protecting customer information and physical infrastructure data during cyberattacks and outages.

DROGARIA ARAUJO

Resilient pharmacy care, safeguarding vital health services

Drogaria Araujo relies on Dell PowerStore and PowerProtect to minimize risk and maximize customer experiences, improving recovery time by 75-80% while protecting against potential $2-3M daily revenue loss.

Labs, webinars, and events

INTERACTIVE DEMOS AND HANDS-ON LABS

Test drive PowerProtect Data Manager

Experience the power of Dell Technologies that will help transform your business with Hands-on labs and Interactive demos.

INTERACTIVE DEMOS AND HANDS-ON LABS

Test drive PowerProtect Data Manager

Experience the power of Dell Technologies that will help transform your business with Hands-on labs and Interactive demos.

Related offerings

FEATURED SOLUTION

PowerProtect Data Domain

Data protection that meets the cyber resilience and multicloud needs of any organization.

FEATURED SOLUTION

PowerProtect Backup Services

Dell PowerProtect Backup Services delivers radically simple all-in-one data protection as-a-service.

FEATURED SOLUTION

PowerProtect Cyber Recovery

Protect critical data from cyber attacks and ransomware, identify suspicious activity, and perform data recovery with easy-to-deploy management and automation software.

FEATURED SOLUTION

Dell Data Storage

Power your innovation with efficient, secure, multicloud solutions for data – wherever it lives.

FEATURED SOLUTION

PowerProtect Data Domain

Data protection that meets the cyber resilience and multicloud needs of any organization.

FEATURED SOLUTION

PowerProtect Backup Services

Dell PowerProtect Backup Services delivers radically simple all-in-one data protection as-a-service.

FEATURED SOLUTION

PowerProtect Cyber Recovery

Protect critical data from cyber attacks and ransomware, identify suspicious activity, and perform data recovery with easy-to-deploy management and automation software.

FEATURED SOLUTION

Dell Data Storage

Power your innovation with efficient, secure, multicloud solutions for data – wherever it lives.

FAQs

What is PowerProtect Data Manager and how does it differ from traditional backup software?

PowerProtect Data Manager is an enterprise cyber resilience platform that goes beyond traditional backup to deliver comprehensive protection, threat detection and recovery orchestration across modern IT environments. Unlike conventional backup tools that simply copy data, PowerProtect Data Manager provides intelligent policy-driven protection with built-in anomaly detection, automated recovery workflows and native multicloud integration.

How does PowerProtect Data Manager protect organizations from ransomware and cyberattacks?

PowerProtect Data Manager delivers multi-layered cyber resilience through immutable backup copies that attackers cannot encrypt or delete, isolated cyber recovery vaults separated from production networks, and machine learning-powered Anomaly Detection that identifies suspicious activity before threats spread. When integrated with PowerProtect Data Domain, retention lock policies prevent even privileged administrators from deleting recovery data.

What types of workloads and environments can PowerProtect Data Manager protect?

PowerProtect Data Manager provides native application-consistent protection across traditional environments including VMware, Hyper-V, databases, NAS and Microsoft 365, plus modern infrastructure including Kubernetes containers, AI workloads such as RAG pipelines and vector databases, and public cloud workloads across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. This comprehensive coverage means organizations can standardize on one platform rather than managing multiple point solutions.

How quickly can organizations recover data and restore operations after a disaster or cyberattack?

PowerProtect Data Manager Recovery Orchestration enables organizations to restore operations in minutes rather than days. With pre-defined and reusable restore plans, your recovery process becomes not just repeatable, but also scalable and customizable to your unique needs, all within two clicks.

What makes PowerProtect the industry leader in customer satisfaction?

PowerProtect Data Manager and Data Domain earned the #1 position in customer satisfaction through superior technology performance, comprehensive cyber resilience capabilities and demonstrable business value including lower total cost of ownership and industry-leading 75:1 data reduction.

Can PowerProtect Data Manager protect AI and machine learning workloads?

Yes, PowerProtect Data Manager is validated as part of Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and provides Kubernetes-native protection for RAG pipelines, vector databases and AI training data with CSI-based persistent volume snapshots, plus zero-impact protection for GPU-accelerated virtual machines through Transparent Snapshots technology. This AI-specific cyber resilience protects substantial investments in training data, model development and GPU infrastructure.

How does PowerProtect Data Manager integrate with existing Dell infrastructure and storage systems?

PowerProtect Data Manager provides native optimized integration with Dell Storage Direct Protection with PowerStore and PowerMax for fast efficient backups, PowerScale integration for up to 3x faster NAS backup performance, and Data Domain integration for industry-leading 75:1 data reduction. This tight integration delivers simplified management, optimized performance and lower total cost of ownership that multi-vendor environments cannot match.

What deployment options are available for PowerProtect Data Manager?

PowerProtect Data Manager offers flexible deployment options including the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance for a unified experience, PowerProtect Data Manager with Data Domain for SMB all the way up to enterprise scale, PowerProtect Data Manager with Data Domain Virtual Edition for cloud deployments across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, or software-only deployment on existing infrastructure. All deployment options deliver comprehensive cyber resilience capabilities with consistent management.

How does PowerProtect Data Manager help organizations meet compliance and regulatory requirements?

PowerProtect Data Manager provides governance and compliance capabilities including centralized policy management and reporting, immutable backup copies and retention lock, detailed audit logs and chain-of-custody documentation, and air-gapped cyber recovery vaults that meet isolation requirements. Industries with strict compliance needs including healthcare, financial services and government rely on PowerProtect Data Manager to prove they can protect and recover data according to regulatory standards.

What kind of support and services does Dell provide for PowerProtect Data Manager implementations?

Dell delivers comprehensive support and professional services including ProDeploy for expert installation and configuration, ProSupport for 24/7 technical support with predictive analytics, cyber resilience consulting to assess risks and design optimal architectures, training and certification programs, and Dell Managed Services for organizations preferring Dell to operate cyber resilience infrastructure. This expertise means organizations avoid common implementation pitfalls and accelerate time to value.