PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED

Dell PowerProtect Backup Services for Hybrid Workloads

Dell PowerProtect Hybrid Backup Service - SaaS-based service enabling organisations to backup and protect their file, database and VM data, e.g. VMware, SQL or NAS, utilising the cloud. Customers are able to configure, administer and manage their backup estate from a single cloud-based console. Pricing starts at 1-50TB capacity.

Features

• Cloud based dashboard & reporting platform
• Global deduplication of data across multiple sources
• Tiering of data for Long term retention within cloud
• Backup and Recovery of diverse data sources
• VMware File level recovery
• Saas Consumption pricing model
• Multi-site administration from cloud dashboard
• On premise data caching
• Cloud Disaster Recovery

Benefits

• Provides on prem backup to the cloud
• Covers all NAS and on prem servers

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

613306253551120

Contact

Mark Pickersgill
01904 562200
bids@phoenixs.co.uk

About your service

• Service categories:

  Applications

  Production and operations

  • Other operations
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: The Service is cloud based and constraints are likely to be end user specific. The only key restraint is this service only holds backup data in AWS clouds
• System requirements:
  • This service has the option for a local cloud cache
  • This requires on premise storage,
  • Dependant upon the users data set sizes

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Access on a 24x7 basis (including holidays) to the Dell Customer Service and Support organization for troubleshooting assistance.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the web chat support is accessible: Via support and website user portal
• Web chat accessibility testing: Unknown
• Onsite support: No
• Support levels: Dell provides both ProSupport and ProSupport Plus options to their customers, with a response time of either Next Business Day or within 4hours (dependent upon customer location). Prices can be provided for the different support options on request. Technical Account Managers are included with ProSupport Plus.
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Once the service is activated, we have a Sales engineer, customer success and customer support team all available to assist with successful onboarding. Dell operates a knowledge base portal for help and configuration documentation as well as free online learning videos to assist with service training.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • Other
• Other documentation formats:
  • Website
  • Training Videos
• End-of-contract data extraction: Users can extract data manually from within the system at any time. An bulk export service is available at an additional cost
• End-of-contract process: All customer data is deleted
• Documentation accessibility standard: None or don’t know
• How the documentation is accessible: Unknown

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • Other
• Application to install: Yes
• Compatible operating systems:
  • Android
  • IOS
  • Linux or Unix
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • ChromeOS
  • Other
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: N/A
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: There is a GUI Portal that allows users to access all aspects of the backup service
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: There is a GUI Portal that allows users to access all aspects of the backup service
• Accessibility testing: Unknown
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: We are able to provide APIs for Audit trail, file server, NAS, CloudCache, Organization, Storage, VMware and Alerts.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • Other
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: No

Scaling

• Independence of resources: The service is cloud provisioned and right sized for each individual organisations workload demands. The right sizing of the cloud environment ensure performance demands are comfortably meet. The service is scalable using Amazon AWS Compute and Storage for all Servers, allowing it to use further resources as and when necessary. No further customer investment in additional technologies is necessary to ensure scalability of the service- this is included in the service per user cost

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Service availability,; deduplication rates,; successful backups,; successful restores,; Active users,; license allocation,; growth rates.; Not limited to the above and many more available
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller (no extras)
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Dell Technologies

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: United Kingdom
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Once the data arrives in the Dell Cloud Platform, it’s immediately encrypted using an AES 256-bit encryption key that is unique to, and completely controlled by that customer. Dell does not have access to customer backup data; each customer has their own unique key to access their backup data. This gives not only logical separation from the Dell control plane but also prevents data leakage in the cloud for data at rest.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
• Data sanitisation type: Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: Users can extract data manually from within the system at any time. A bulk export service is available at an additional cost
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • ODF
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • ODF

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: To protect data in flight, Dell uses industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) for all data transmitted to the Dell Cloud Platform. Further, data at rest (DARE) in the storage environment is protected by AES 256 Bit encryption.
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: To protect data in flight, Dell uses industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) for all data transmitted to the Dell Cloud Platform. Further, data at rest (DARE) in the storage environment is protected by AES 256 Bit encryption.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: We provide an SLA of 99.5% uptime and 99.99999% Customer Data durability
• Approach to resilience: The cloud instance for the customer is always replicated between 3 physically different data centres as part of the Amazon AWS availability zone feature. In the case of access being not availabile from 1 datacentre, the customers instance will be instantly available from 1 of the 2 further datacentres.
• Outage reporting: Outages of the system availability or the storage component are communicated to all assigned administrators within a cloud instance via email as well as via the Support Portal. An online dashboard also reports instance of global outages

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Dell uses 2FA/MFA and username and passwords. SSO capability is also available. Dell authenticates every login
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication: Other
• Description of management access authentication: Users and management are separated and controlled with separate authentication portals. RBAC is also used to determine a users level of system access

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: Other
• Other security governance standards: We undergo an annual SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA audit
• Information security policies and processes: Dell's security program is based on NIST 800-53, documented policies include:; Access Control Policy; Audit and Accountability Policy; Awareness Training Policy; Clear Desk Policy; Configuration Management Policy; Contingency Planning Policy; Identification and Authentication Policy; Information Security Policy; Information Technology Policy; Media Protection Policy; Personnel Security Policy; Physical & Environmental Security Policy; Position Designation Policy; Risk Assessment Policy; Secure Development (SDLC) Policy; Security Planning Policy; Server Security Policy; System Acquisition Policy; System & Information Integrity Policy; System Maintenance Policy; Vendor Management Policy; Wireless Communication Policy; Business Continuity Plan
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Any changes are controlled under project management and done with validated testing to ensure chnages are stable
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Dell defines its own policies and maintains a high level awareness of industry approaches and fixes to defined issues and ensures adoption of these fixes as soon as is possible. We use our own defined processes for this.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Dell's Cloud Operations team monitors the services on a 24x7x365 basis. Systems are monitored with host based intrusion detection and AWS activity logging that is centralized in Dell's logging infrastructure.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: Dell has a documented Incident Response Plan that includes steps to respond to security incidents including identification, investigation, response, mitigation, customer notification, and root cause analysis.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: No

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 0.1%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0.2%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0.3%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 0.4%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 0.5%
• Over £5,000,001: 0.6%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSI Assurance UK Limited
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Thursday 21 January 2016
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Our certificate applies to services including software licensing, hardware, software asset management (SAM), and IT consultancy. It covers these services when delivered to public sector, charities and housing associations, education, and corporate customers by our employees, systems, and business processes.; ; All activities outside of this scope are not covered by the certification.
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: BSI Assurance UK Limited
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Tuesday 23 November 2010
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: Our certificate applies to services including software licensing, hardware, software asset management (SAM), and IT consultancy. It covers these services when delivered to public sector, charities and housing associations, education, and corporate customers by our employees, systems, and business processes.; ; All activities outside of this scope are not covered by the certification.
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: Security Metrics via Self Certification
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Wednesday 20 August 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: Our certificate applies to services including software licensing, hardware, software asset management (SAM), and IT consultancy. It covers these services when delivered to public sector, charities and housing associations, education, and corporate customers by our employees, systems, and business processes.; ; All activities outside of this scope are not covered by the certification.
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 18c34a82-2bf3-4bf9-86c6-f489f07b37d6
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: F1e26d79-c268-4d22-a3d7-01e3f4c32c92
• Other security certifications: No

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
    • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
    • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
    • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
    • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Volunteering opportunities for staff
    • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
    • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
    • Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
    • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
    • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
    • Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
    • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events

  • Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

    Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

    • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
    • Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

    • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
    • Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
    • Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
    • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
    • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
    • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
    • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
    • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
    • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
    • Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
    • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort

  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at bids@phoenixs.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.