Centralized data protection has improved compliance and reduces sensitive data exposure
What is our primary use case?
Dell Data Protection Suite is used primarily for data encryption and data loss prevention across endpoints and servers, ensuring secure access, compliance, and protection of sensitive customer data in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Dell Data Protection Suite encrypts laptops and servers handling customer data and enforces DLP policies that block or alert on unauthorized data transfer, such as USB, email, or cloud apps. This helps prevent data leakage and maintain compliance across multiple customer environments in daily operations.
Dell Data Protection Suite provides centralized policy management and reporting, which simplifies enforcement across multiple customer environments and helps demonstrate compliance during audits. It reduces operational risk while keeping data protection consistent at scale.
Role-based access control in Dell Data Protection Suite ensures only authorized teams can access sensitive customer data, such as separating admin, operations, and support access across environments. For advanced threat detection, the solution flags abnormal behavior patterns such as mass file access or unauthorized data transfers, allowing for quick response and prevention of potential data leaks. These features reduce insider risk and improve overall data security.
Centralized encryption key management in Dell Data Protection Suite ensures secure key storage, rotation, and recovery across all endpoints. This simplifies operations, reduces the risk of key loss, and maintains compliance across multiple customer environments.
What is most valuable?
Dell Data Protection Suite offers full disk encryption, data loss prevention, centralized policy management, advanced threat detection, and role-based access control.
Dell Data Protection Suite has positively impacted the organization by strengthening the data security posture through consistent enforcement of encryption and DLP across endpoints and servers. It has reduced the risk of data leakage, simplified compliance reporting, and lowered operational overhead through centralized policy and key management across multiple customer environments.
Since deploying Dell Data Protection Suite, there has been a 40% reduction in data-related security incidents, mainly due to enforced encryption and DLP controls. Compliance audits are completed 30% faster because of centralized reporting and audit logs. Operational effort has been reduced by automating policy enforcement across endpoints and cloud workloads, resulting in measurable cost and time savings.
What needs improvement?
Dell Data Protection Suite should be improved with better cloud-native integrations, a more modern and intuitive management UI, and faster policy deployment across large, distributed environments. Enhanced automation and clearer documentation would also help reduce operational overload.
The lack of documentation has been a frustrating point regarding improvements needed for Dell Data Protection Suite.
For how long have I used the solution?
Dell Data Protection Suite has been used for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Dell Data Protection Suite is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Dell Data Protection Suite is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Dell Data Protection Suite is very good, although the documentation is not good.
I would rate the customer support for Dell Data Protection Suite a nine because they are very knowledgeable and respond on a timely basis.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, I relied on a separate endpoint encryption tool and a DLP tracking tool before switching to Dell Data Protection Suite because it provides centralized encryption, DLP, role-based access control, and reporting in a single platform, which is much more efficient for managing multiple client and hybrid cloud environments.
What was our ROI?
There has been a clear return on investment with Dell Data Protection Suite. By enforcing encryption and DLP centrally, data-related security incidents have been reduced by 40% and audit time has been reduced by 30%. Several hours per week of manual policy enforcement have been saved, allowing the team to focus on proactive security tasks rather than repetitive monitoring.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing of Dell Data Protection Suite was dependent on the sales team, but the pricing is on the lower side, and the setup cost is also on the lower side.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Other solutions such as Symantec Endpoint Encryption and McAfee Complete Data Protection were evaluated before choosing Dell Data Protection Suite because it offered a more integrated platform with centralized management, robust DLP, and better scalability across multi-client and hybrid cloud environments.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others looking into using Dell Data Protection Suite to plan deployment carefully, including policy design, key management, and integration with endpoints. It is important to ensure the team is trained, as proper setup is critical for maximizing security and ROI across multiple client environments. I would rate this review an 8.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Dell EMC Storage are easy to deploy & use.
What do you like best about the product?
Dell EMC Storage are plug and play, migration also very easy, maintanance is excellant, Cloud IQ and reporting work very well, Priceing also very resonable compared to other OEM, Support On time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much to dislike, all good things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's avoids our performance bettlenecks and saves lots of time on investigations.
One of the best support providers in SAN environment
What do you like best about the product?
Sell EMC storage's are robust and enterprise class devices.
What do you dislike about the product?
The procurement cost is slightly on a higher range.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The response time we achieve by using flash storage is too good as the latency to process any data is very less, this gives us infra for to run our business transactions smoothly.
Storage Engineer, Implementation Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to setup
Complete solution
High efficiency
Good data reduction
High available
Secure
Compatible with latest technologies
What do you dislike about the product?
Failed drive rebuild time
Integration with SEIM solutions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High IOPS less power consumption, less foot print
More intelligent
Excellent Storage Architecture
What do you like best about the product?
Love it for low latency and support higher IOPS. Also consumes very less power and storage density is very high. Value of money and saves lot of time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Price is on the higher side but once we get used to it will be beneficial.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Supports my large files and optimized performance. I can keep more and more files in my storage. Earlier i used to use multiple drives but one is enough.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use for sometime and u will love it,.
Great Performance
What do you like best about the product?
Storage performance is top-notch & the application response time is minimal
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost is on slightly higher side which is primarily because of high performance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application response time, read-write capabilities & overall performance have improved
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For someone who doesn't want to compromise on performance then it is the right product. The price might be slightly on a higher side
Very reliable storage with tremendous speed
What do you like best about the product?
Speed to transfer data to and from with dell flash storage is remarkably best
What do you dislike about the product?
Size is little bit concerned without case
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Store static data and also backup data in storage and also Transfer data time to time
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Must try for backup purpose along with cloud connectivity feature
Huge Dell EMC fan
What do you like best about the product?
We've been a Dell shop for many years and the Flash storage is no exception. We love Dell and look forward to using the device.
What do you dislike about the product?
None so far. We've only used it a short time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a situation where our current infrastructure is out of warranty so we'll be upgrading to using all flash storage this round
Dell Switches, best post-sales service
What do you like best about the product?
The most important thing in any product purchase is the tech support services. This service is essential to continue trusting with that brand, and the Dell after sale service is very good.
Also dell doesn’t license features on their switches, so all the switching and routing features out-of-the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dell N series have some problems at basic functions (L3 routing, stacking,..)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In Hospital clinic of Barcelona, only work with Dell, so I don't have the oportunity to work with other brands, so I can't say that problems will be solved with other brand.
Tier to Cloud
What do you like best about the product?
It can be easily tierd to cloud and analytics can be performed very easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
It’s not an “evolution” as they market.
Yes it’s better though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of deployment.
