Dell Updates Its Backup Business Lineup With DL4300, DL1000 1TB Appliances

Expanding upon its already established backup appliance lineup, Dell introduces brand-new DL4300 and DL1000 devices. Powered by the company’s PowerEdge server hardware and AppAssure software, both backup appliances are available as of today.

The DL4300 is an entirely new offering from Dell and ships with the latest version of the award-winning AppAssure backup, replication and recovery software pre-installed. Designed to deliver superior performances, scalability, management and recovery capabilities, the DL4300 gives customers a simple plug-and-play experience.

The DL4300 standard edition offers up to 60TB of usable capacity, while the high-capacity offering provides up to 120TB of usable space. For a the economically inclined, Dell gives customers the freedom to license only the portion of the total appliance capacity that is currently needed, while maintaining the ability to license the remaining available capacity when needed.

Dell’s DL4300 Disk Appliance

Dell’s DL4300 is built on its 13th generation PowerEdge server and features Intel’s latest processor technology. Additionally, the DL product line offers the ability to run virtual standbys of protected applications, facilitating a DR enactment measured in seconds. With a single pane of glass, customers can view and manage all standby VMs as well. Finally, the standard version comes with two licensed Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines and the high-capacity version comes with four.

Finally, new to the DL4300 is Dell’s Rapid Appliance Self Recovery (RASR), which allows customers the ability to easily recover the appliance in the event of a failure. This new capability provides users the option to either create a defined restore point for the appliance, or recover the appliance back to its original factory image. With RASR, users have the ability to schedule snapshots of the appliance in defined intervals, and failover to those snapshots in the event of an outage

The DL1000 1TB is a complement to Dell’s existing DL1000 2TB and 3TB offerings; the DL1000 1TB provides the features and power of the DL in an aggressively priced package specifically designed to meet the unique needs of small businesses. The DL1000 provides near-continuous data protection by taking snapshots as often as every 60 minutes, utilizing AppAssure’s changed data tracking and de-duplication that backs up and moves only data that has changed to minimize networking and storage requirements.

Both the DL4300 and DL1000 1TB are available now. The DL4399 is available both direct from Dell and through the channel, while the DL1000 1TB is available online only.