Case Study: USC Australia achieves faster VMware backups, sub-10-minute restores and 96% deduplication with Dell Technologies PowerProtect Data Manager

Saving hours a day with automated data protection

USC Australia, a growing research-focused university, needed to modernize data protection for its VMware environment to scale with expanding research datasets and guarantee fast, reliable recoveries. They engaged Dell Technologies and adopted PowerProtect Data Manager together with PowerProtect appliances to provide a VMware-native, easy-to-administer backup platform.

Dell Technologies implemented PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect DD appliances integrated with USC’s VMware hosts, delivering automated backups, faster protection windows, and simplified administration. The solution achieved a >96% deduplication rate, under-10-minute VM restores, a 100% restore success rate, and saved hours of daily administration time—while also enabling overnight cloning to a secondary appliance and future cloud and Kubernetes protection.

USC Australia

Drew Hills

Infrastructure Analyst