To out-innovate and out-pace their competition, organizations must be on a consistent path to keep their infrastructure modern. IT is under constant pressure to deliver optimized infrastructure for new business initiatives and supporting applications all while trying to contain or even reduce costs.

This paper discusses how Dell EMC Data Domain systems, and converged solutions built on the Data Domain architecture, such as the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), help deliver the agility IT implementers need to transform their infrastructures to meet senior IT leader mandates, solve today’s data protection challenges, and, most importantly, reduce the cost of storing protection data.