Ransomware is a business certainty to plan for. Security and infrastructure leaders know recovery speed dictates whether an organization survives an attack or faces catastrophic downtime.
Enterprises trust Dell PowerProtect Data Domain to provide fast, reliable, and resilient local recovery. This appliance remains a proven investment in enterprise data centers and remote branch offices. The fully managed Druva Resilience Cloud integrates with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain to deliver a hybrid architecture. The capability is now generally available. Customers get the local recovery speed of Data Domain combined with the scalable, cloud-delivered cyber resilience of Druva.
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Maximize your on-premises infrastructure
Traditional approaches often require complex, proprietary hybrid clusters that force hardware refresh cycles. This requires the customer to host and manage the new environments themselves.
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain serves as a proven, high-performance local recovery engine. The Druva Resilience Cloud integrates with Data Domain to extend this platform with cloud-delivered governance and WAN-optimized cloud tiering.
Customers retain their local Dell PowerProtect Data Domain hardware investments. IT teams configure existing appliances to be a fast local cache. WAN-optimized tiering keeps 14 to 30 days of data locally for immediate, LAN-speed RPOs and RTOs, while automatically offloading long-term compliance retention to the cloud (longer local retention is available). This preserves Data Domain appliance capacity and maximizes hardware ROI.
Druva provides a single SaaS control plane to manage this infrastructure. A health and human services government agency adopted this hybrid model. They retained their Dell DD9400 investment and eliminated multiple software solutions. This integrated strategy offloaded day-two infrastructure management and liberated their short-staffed IT team from tedious lifecycle maintenance.
A regional financial services institution took a similar approach to address a different constraint. They used the integration to overcome cloud bandwidth constraints for core virtualized infrastructure. By connecting their existing Dell PowerProtect Data Domain capacity to the Druva Resilience Cloud, the credit union achieved fast local restore speeds for multi-terabyte VMs while maintaining unified, cloud-managed governance. This hybrid model satisfied their strict local recovery point objectives without requiring additional on-premises management infrastructure.
Threat isolation and air-gapping
Local hardware provides speed. Cloud architecture offers a single pane of management. Together, they deliver dual-layer cyber resilience with a secure, high-performance local recovery tier on Data Domain for surviving everyday operational outages, backed by an isolated cloud vault for catastrophic ransomware events. The joint solution stores air-gapped, immutable copies of enterprise data directly in cloud storage.
This architecture removes local network attack vectors entirely. If ransomware encrypts the production environment, the offline cloud copy remains clean and accessible.
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This approach meets CISO requirements for air-gapped recovery. Druva scans recovery points for malware during restores. This step prevents reinfection and guarantees clean data. The same government agency used these automated threat isolation capabilities to exceed rigorous HIPAA and SOC 2 requirements. By applying the scalable economics and competitive TCO of the Druva cloud, they secured 2,800 front-end TBs (terabytes)across core databases, remote clinics, and hospital networks alongside their existing infrastructure.
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Governance across environments
Enterprise environments generate diverse and complex data sets. The Druva Resilience Cloud consolidates these disparate environments into a single governance model. Security and infrastructure teams get total visibility across their entire footprint. Teams can leverage their Data Domain for heavy, mission-critical databases and multi-terabyte virtual machines requiring massive local I/O, while natively protecting SaaS applications, endpoints, and AWS workloads through the same Druva console.
You can protect on-premises data centers, operational technology networks, and edge devices from the same console. An aviation and aerospace manufacturer used this joint architecture to build a resilient greenfield IT environment. Facing a strict corporate separation deadline, they deployed PowerProtect Data Domain 3410 appliances and activated the Druva integration.
This combination provided a compact, cost-effective on-premises capability. They maintained eight to twelve terabytes of local storage for two weeks of rapid recovery. Druva then automated the long-term replication to the cloud. This architecture protected the business against catastrophic events without requiring a secondary physical data center.
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Accelerated deployment and on-demand scalability
Building a resilient architecture from scratch often takes months. Druva's SaaS delivery model eliminates these delays. Customers connect their local Dell Data Domain appliances to the cloud control plane in minutes. This hybrid integration is especially powerful for remote and branch office (ROBO) environments and helps teams more effectively manage distributed sites while keeping local recovery fast.
This speed was a primary factor for an aviation and aerospace manufacturer. They faced immense pressure to establish autonomy before a hard corporate separation deadline. By choosing a joint solution from Dell and Druva, they condensed several months of work into just two weeks.
The fully managed SaaS platform also simplifies future growth. As business needs evolve, IT teams can scale their coverage without provisioning new management consoles. The manufacturer plans to expand their deployment to cover 500 laptops and additional SaaS applications. The Druva Resilience Cloud secures these new workloads under the exact same governance model.
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Modernizing your architecture is possible while retaining investments. The Druva Resilience Cloud extends Dell Data Domain environments with scalable, cloud-delivered cyber resilience. You keep the local speed you trust and gain the SaaS simplicity you need.
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