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Introducing the new PowerProtect DD9910 and DD9410 with DDOS 8.0.0.10
The release of DD OS 8.0 (let’s call it that for short), late last month, was major release that introduced some significant security, cloud and manageability enhancements. I will unpack these in a little more detail in the following few…
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Dell Apex Protection Storage – Optimise backup cost with AWS S3 Intelligent Tiering and DDVE 7.13
Just before the New Year, PowerProtect DDVE on AWS 7.13 dropped. With it came official documented support for AWS S3 Intelligent Tiering. Indeed manual or direct tiering is supported also using S3 Lifecycle Management, but Intelligent Tiering is recommended as…
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Protecting AWS EKS Container/Kubernetes workloads with Dell APEX Protection Storage – PPDM – Part 3
In part 1 and 2 of this series we provided an overview of how we would stand up a basic EKS Kubernetes cluster, configure all the associated IAM and security policies, and finally the installation of the AWS native CSI…
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Protecting AWS EKS Container/Kubernetes workloads with Dell PPDM -Part 2
In the previous post we set up a very basic EKS environment with 2 EC2 worker nodes. Before we deploy a real application on this cluster and back it up using PPDM and DDVE, we will need to install the…
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Dell APEX Protection Storage
Protecting AWS EKS Container/Kubernetes workloads – Part 1 Introduction In my last series of posts, we concentrated on setting up the backend AWS infrastructure and deploying PPDM with DDVE, both via the GUI and IAC ( Cloudformation, YAML etc.). So…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Build your DDVE and PPDM Playground Part 2
Extended IAC YAML Script – Adds everything else to the recipe. Short post this week. My last blog post leveraged AWS CloudFormation and a YAML script to stand up the basic architecture required to deploy DDVE and PPDM in an…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Build your DDVE and PPDM Playground.
YAML Cloudformation Script for standing up the base AWS VPC architecture: My last set of blogs concentrated around running through best practices and standing up the AWS infrastructure, so as to get to the point whereby we deployed DDVE in…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: DDVE on AWS End to End Installation Demo
Part 4: Automated Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation The last in this series of blog posts. I’ll keep the written piece brief, given that the video is 24 minutes long. It passes quickly I promise! The original intent of…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Securing the AWS Environment – Part 3
Firewalling EC2 leveraging Security Groups Quick recap. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we concentrated on the relationship between the DDVE software running on EC2 and its target datastore, S3. As with anything cloud based permissions and…
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APEX Protection Storage for Public Cloud: Securing the AWS Environment – Part 2
Private connectivity from DDVE to S3 leveraging VPC S3 Endpoints. Where we are at ? In Part 1 we talked about securing the relationship between the DDVE instance and the target S3 instance. This was a permissions based approach leveraging…
