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Summary

Agentless, SaaS-based protection for Azure SQL environments — covering Azure VMs, SQL Databases, and Managed Instances. With policy-driven automation, air-gapped backups, and integrated CDC, you can recover fast and optimize costs with zero infrastructure. 

The Challenge

Organizations using Azure SQL face increasing challenges in securing, managing, and ensuring the availability of their databases. Many traditional and cloud-native backup solutions require multiple components to protect Azure SQL, adding to deployment complexity, management overhead, and security vulnerabilities. Businesses need a streamlined, agentless solution that enhances security, simplifies operations, and ensures seamless recovery.

Business Challenges

• Agent-Based Backup Complexity: Many solutions require multiple components to protect Azure SQL, increasing deployment time, maintenance overhead, and security risks.
• Ransomware & Cyber Threats: Without an air-gapped backup strategy, organizations remain vulnerable to data loss from cyberattacks.
• High Storage: Costs Redundant storage in Azure-native tools results in escalating cloud storage expenses.
• Limited Backup Flexibility: Existing solutions may not support all backup types, such as Change Data Capture (CDC), leading to potential data gaps.
• Complex Disaster Recovery: Organizations need a solution that enables fast, seamless restoration across Azure regions.

Key Benefits

• Agentless, Simplified Deployment: Eliminates the need to manage infrastructure, reducing management complexity and operational overhead.
• Air-Gapped Backup for Ransomware Protection: Provides a secure, offsite backup to prevent cyber threats and data loss.
• Unlimited Retention & Cost Optimization: Reduces storage costs while supporting unlimited retention policies.
• Comprehensive Backup Methods: Supports full backups and CDC to ensure transactionally consistent recovery points.
• Seamless Restoration & Disaster Recovery: Enables rapid recovery to the same or a different Azure region

How it Works

• Agentless Deployment: Dell Technologies’ SaaS solution eliminates the need for complex management of data protection infrastructure, allowing rapid and secure onboarding for Azure SQL.
• Policy Driven Data Protection:
  • Full Backup: A complete scan and backup of Azure SQL databases, stored securely with deduplication.
  • Change Data Capture (CDC): Tracks database changes (inserts, updates, deletes) for consistent recovery points.
• Storage & Recovery: Back up your Azure SQL data to the Druva Data Security Cloud to enable fast, reliable restores; while meeting compliance needs with flexible short- and long-term retention options that also help reduce costs.
• Security & Compliance: Provides immutable backups, encryption, and adherence to regulatory standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, and FedRAMP.

Comprehensive SaaS Data Protection for Microsoft Workloads

Dell goes beyond Azure SQL to deliver fully managed, cloud-native data protection across the Microsoft ecosystem. Built for the cloud and optimized for scale, Dell provides robust protection for a wide range of Microsoft workloads — including Azure Virtual Machines, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Windows endpoints, and other hybrid, cloud, and SaaS environments.

Key Advantages

Scalability & Workload Expansion: Easily extend protection from Azure SQL to other critical Microsoft services with a unified platform that scales with your business needs across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.

Unified Policy Management: Apply consistent global backup, retention, and compliance policies across Microsoft environments to streamline data governance and reduce administrative overhead.

Zero Infrastructure Required: Dell’s fully SaaS-based model eliminates the need for on-premises hardware, agents, or manual updates, enabling rapid deployment and effortless management.

With its agentless, cloud-native architecture, PowerProtect Backup Services simplifies Microsoft workload protection while delivering enterprise-grade security, automated cyber resilience, and significant cost savings—empowering IT teams to do more with less.

Author: Adeola Adelugba