F acts you should know about the Dell Data Protection Portfolio.

1. Facts you should know aboutthe Dell Data ProtectionPortfolio.

2. 1 Fact Dell Backup and Recovery Software is trusted by more than 82,000 customers globally, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

3. 2 Fact With Dell Data Protection software, customers have reported saving more than 70% on professional services costs and software maintenance costs. TechValidatewww.techvalidate.com/product-research/dell-data-protection

4. 3 Fact Dell Data Protection is the only vendor that lets you match your backup to your business.

5. 4 Fact Dell Data Protection received a Storage Magazine 2013 Quality Award.

6. 5 Fact The Dell DR4x00 delivers fast and simple restores. “The device works very well, indeed. Restores are fast and simple, given the data is sitting on a local hard disk… wonderful addition to our backup strategy.” - Joe Hagan, IT Professional, University of Southern Indiana TechValidateID: 006-074-131

7. 6 Fact Dell Data Protection can help lower administrative overhead. 60% of Dell NetVault customers spend 2 hours or less per week monitoring and managing backups. TechValidate. TVID: 809-2B7-5EC

8. 7 Fact Dell Data Protection protects Microsoft Exchange environments so you can get all of your email back fast.

9. 8 Fact Dell Data Protection can cut backup times in half. Combining NetVault Backup with the DR4100 appliance dramatically decreases backup times with a data ingest speed of up to 7.5TB/hr. It can also speed restores—with restore rates as high as 2TB/hr.

10. 9 Fact Dell Data Protection is easy to use. According to a ESG Lab Validation report, the DL 4000 deployment process can take less than 20 minutes, of which less than ten minutes requires user interaction.

11. 10 Fact Dell Data Protection helps customers save time and money. “We need only one person to check and operate the backup process, which takes one to two hours each day using NetVault Backup. This 93 percent time savings translates into maintenance cost savings.” - Sven Dietrich, CC Infrastructure Manager, RUAG Services

12. 11 Fact Dell Data Protection software was a finalist in the “Best of VMworld 2013” awards in the Storage and Backup for Virtualized Environments category with Dell AppAssure 5.3.3.

13. 12 Fact Dell Data Protection provides no-fuss backup and recovery. “NetVaultjust works. We don’t have to fuss with it much once it is installed and configured correctly.” – Robby Wright, Chief Technology Officer, AbtechSystems TechValidate. TVID: A5F-B8B-DC0

14. 13 Fact Dell Data Protection provides 288 snapshots of your critical machines per day. AppAssurelets you restore an entire server from a backup with an RTO of seconds and up to 288 recovery points a day to deliver an RPO of minutes.

15. 14 Fact Dell Data Protection reduces your backup storage footprint by up to 15:1. Built-in deduplication and compression technologies of the DR4100 enable customers to achieve typical data reduction levels of 15:1.

16. 15 Fact Dell Data Protection eliminates the need for administrators to validate their Microsoft Exchange, SQL and SharePoint backups.

17. 16 Fact Dell Data Protection helps customers spend less time on backups. “…94 percent less time spent managing backup and recovery, and I can devote more of my attention to more valuable projects.” - LakhvirRai, Systems Administrator II, Pacific Biosciences

18. 17 Fact Dell Data Protection can save time. 55% of customers installed Dell NetVault Backup and configured their first backup in 3 hours or less. TechValidate. TVID: FE2-6C3-D19

19. 18 Fact Dell Data Protection can increase your backup success rate. 9 out of 10 IT organizations who replaced Symantec NetBackup with Dell NetVault Backup increased their backup success rate. TechValidate. TVID: 3D2-8E8-30D

20. 19 Fact Dell Data Protection’s shrinks backup windows. “We don’t have backup windows anymore, and there has been no noticeable loss of network performance, even with the machines backing up every five minutes, thanks to Dell AppAssure.” - Ralph Eggeling, IT Manager, Mädler GmbH

21. 20 Fact Dell Data Protection gives you the ability to have a clone of your production server so you’ll be back up and running quickly if needed.

22. 21 Fact Dell Data Protection is innovative. Rapid Data Access (RDA) is a software plug-in that allows deduplication to be performed at the source, dramatically reducing bandwidth needed to transport backup data over a network.

23. 22 Fact Dell Data Protection provides up to a 120% improvement in replicating virtual machines to the cloud.

24. 23 Fact Dell Data Protection updates virtual standbys of your critical machines every 5 minutes to the cloud.

25. 24 Fact Dell Data Protection can help reduce time and cost. The City of Atlanta deployed the Dell™ DR4000 appliance helping to cut data backup time by 70 percent and reduce storage expense by 60 percent.

26. 25 Fact Dell Data Protectioncan help you store more information. “Our deduplication and compression figures are around 90 percent. That means we’ve fitted around 164 terabytes of data on 16 terabytes of disk space with our Dell solution.” - James Pardon, System Administrator, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

27. 26 Fact Dell Data Protection allows you to build your own cloud, wherever and whenever. Set up and use as many AppAssure Core servers as you want at no additional cost; replicate between them— onsite, offsite, public cloud, and private cloud.