Reduce backup windows for

multi‑server environments
with Dell EMC Integrated Data
Protection Appliance
With environments consisting of 500 VMs, a large Oracle® database,
and a Microsoft SQL Server database, we simulated a seven-day
backup scenario using

A Dell EMC™ Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA)

DP5800-based solution
A similarly sized solution from a competitor we call “Vendor Y”

The Dell EMC IDPA solution can allow you to set shorter backup
windows and resume business operations sooner.
Time to back up 500 VMs and two large Average time to complete daily backups for 500
databases for day 1 (full backup) VMs and two large databases after daily updates

13% 68%
Dell EMC IDPA DP5800 solution Dell EMC IDPA DP5800 solution

8 h 42 m less time 1 h 57 m less time

(1 hour & 21 min)* (4 hours & 18 min)*

Vendor Y solution Vendor Y solution

10 h 03 m 6 h 16 m

Total time to complete seven simulated days of backups for 500

VMs and two large databases

57%
Dell EMC IDPA DP5800 solution

20 h 30 m less time
(27 hours & 14 min)*

Vendor Y solution

47 h 44 m

Read our full report to learn more about how the smaller backup
windows you get with the Dell EMC IDPA can help your company:

Reduce recovery point

Maintain operational objectives (RPOs) and
Mitigate risk
continuity recover data from a point
prior to an event

Learn more at http://facts.pt/3jZYw3K

*For brevity, we rounded all times down to the minute after calculating the differences.
Copyright 2020 Principled Technologies, Inc. Based on “A Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance solution delivered
Principled faster back up and recovery times for databases and virtual machines,” a Principled Technologies report, November 2020.
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