Downtime has a long tail. When a cyberattack or systems failure hits your business, repercussions such as lost revenue and reputational damage can persist long after the initial incident. And the longer the outage lasts, the more serious the fallout is likely to be.
This means that simply having backups isn’t enough to minimize your exposure. You need to recover your systems quickly and confidently whenever the moment arrives.
Dell PowerProtect One is tailor-made for this purpose. PowerProtect One is built on the combined strengths of PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect Data Domain. The platform combines proven cyber resilience software with industry-leading secure protection storage, delivering centralized visibility, intelligent automation, and a strong, dependable foundation for recovery.
Dell customer Drogaria Araujo, a pharmacy retailer in Brazil, reported up to 80% faster recovery times using Dell PowerProtect, helping reduce disruption and cost when an incident occurs.
TL;DR
- Rapid recovery relies on processes and workflows being defined before an incident occurs
- PowerProtect One helps businesses with the restoration of core business services, and the dependencies they rely on
- Cyber resilience capabilities keep backups secure and usable when they're needed most
- Orchestrated recovery allows restoration workflows to be quickly executed with reduced manual intervention
- When infrastructure is disrupted, supported assets can be recovered from a secondary PowerProtect One system to minimize delays and downtime
Fast recovery starts before an incident
To get a business quickly back online after an outage, IT teams need to be prepared. Priorities and workflows must be planned in advance, rather than relying on in-the-moment analysis and decisions. PowerProtect One helps businesses put policies and recovery orchestration in place so they’re ready to respond as soon as an incident occurs.
Step 1: Plan for the data that matters most
After an outage, the priority is not just to start recovery procedures, but to restore business operations. This means focusing first on data and systems that directly serve the business, and moving on later to less critical items.
PowerProtect One’s asset discovery and recovery orchestration features help businesses design their recovery processes around the most important parts of their IT environment. Protected systems can include virtualized environments such as Hyper-V and VMware, Kubernetes, and application platforms like SQL Server.
For VMware workloads, PowerProtect One supports Transparent Snapshots, allowing for image-level backup without pausing the virtual machine. And as new assets and infrastructure are added to the network, PowerProtect One is designed to scale as needed.
At the same time, a unified dashboard lets administrators track job health, system status, capacity, and risks across multiple connected systems, enabling consistent management of the cyber resilience platform itself.
What should you prioritize for recovery?
Core systems such as customer portals and database services are obvious priorities – but these functions often rely on underlying dependencies that need to be restored first. This means recovery processes need to follow a defined sequence with staged objectives.
Step 2: Make sure backups are stored safely for when you need them
Policies and procedures on their own aren’t enough: businesses need to know their backups are secure. PowerProtect One uses PowerProtect Data Domain as its storage foundation, enabling strong encryption with immutable storage to protect backups from corruption or encryption by ransomware.
Data Domain also helps ensure backups are stored efficiently, delivering 75:1* native deduplication and data reduction. Cross-site deduplication reduces bandwidth demands when multiple locations replicate backups to the same store, while the Cloud Tier feature can move selected data to remote object storage for long-term retention use cases.
How can businesses ensure that backed-up data is recoverable?
PowerProtect One uses the Anomaly Detection capability to carry out both daily integrity scans and on-demand checks to verify that backed-up data is in a good state. This helps flag potential issues such as inconsistent metadata or missing storage information before backup files are needed for recovery.
Remember though, these checks aren’t the same as a full test of the recovery procedure. Regular recovery tests are still needed to validate the whole recovery sequence, and should be repeated whenever dependencies or infrastructure change.
Step 3: Configure automations before they’re needed
PowerProtect One supports standardized, repeatable backup and recovery workflows. This helps businesses respond to incidents consistently, without having to rely on in-the-moment decisions, specialist knowledge, and manual interventions. Establishing defined processes also reduces reliance on particular staff who may be unavailable, such as during holiday periods.
Step 4: Anticipate disruption to your recovery infrastructure
A major incident like a ransomware attack can wreak disruption across your network. If your primary PowerProtect One system is inaccessible, Dell’s Quick Recovery feature allows some critical assets to be recovered from replicated copies using a secondary Dell PowerProtect One system, so your recovery response doesn’t have to wait for the primary system to be brought back online.
In supported scenarios, the compromised PowerProtect One system can even be recovered at the same time as priority assets and services are being restored.
Recovery Requirement |
PowerProtect One |
|---|---|
Restore business-critical services as quickly as possible |
Recovery orchestration helps prioritize key services and sequence dependencies |
Ensure backed-up data is secure |
Encryption, logical air gapping, and immutable storage help keep backups safe for when they're needed |
Ensure backups are intact and recoverable |
Automated integrity checks and on-demand scans flag issues before an incident occurs |
Consistent and predictable crisis response |
Centralized policies and repeatable workflows can be executed as soon as they're needed |
Central management and monitoring of the resilience platform |
The Unified Dashboard tracks system status and risk across multiple Dell PowerProtect One systems, helping to expose incipient issues before they become urgent |
Contingency plan for infrastructure failure |
Restore supported assets using a secondary PowerProtect One system – no need to wait for the primary one to be rebuilt |
The overall impact of a technology outage often depends on how quickly key systems and data can be restored, and that in turn depends on preparations made before the incident occurs. PowerProtect One helps you maintain reliable backups and develop consistent workflows so you can be confident of a fast and successful recovery when it’s needed.
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FAQs
What makes Dell PowerProtect One different from just having backups?
Backups alone only prove that data has been protected, not that it can be restored when needed. PowerProtect One combines cyber resilience, recovery orchestration, and validation in one platform—helping teams identify trusted recovery points and restore critical operations with greater confidence.
How does Dell PowerProtect One protect backups from ransomware?
PowerProtect One leverages Data Domain as its storage foundation. Data Domain provides secure and efficient immutable protection storage that helps stop backups from being altered or deleted, even if the rest of the environment has been compromised.
Can businesses recover if their primary Dell PowerProtect One system is affected?
Yes. Supported critical assets can be recovered from a secondary Dell PowerProtect One system using replicated copies, so recovery doesn't have to wait for the primary system to be rebuilt.
*75:1 data reduction based on Dell internal testing and field telemetry data, June 2026. Actual results may vary.