Dell EMC PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE) is the software-defined data protection solution based on industry-leading Dell EMC PowerProtect DD, the world's most trusted protection storage. DDVE can now deliver increased transactional and operational efficiencies, reliability and lower TCO by utilizing object storage (standard S3). DDVE runs up to 256TB instances in-cloud and also supports AWS GovCloud. Version alignment of DDVE to DDOS starting with DDOS 7.6. Starting DDOS 7.8, when freshly deployed, the DDVE comes with an evaluation license with all supported features and maximum capacity (256TB). The evaluation license now provides a 90-day grace period following expiry on DDVE.