EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions

Next generation data protection

The Challenge: Cost, Complexity, and Compliance

Essentials
Legacy tape-based backup and recovery methods cannot keep pace with data
Backup and Recovery Challenges
growth, retention requirements, and the impact of server virtualization.
• Data volume continues to grow unabated
• Risks, costs, and time delays associated
with tape backup The Solution: Backup Redesign
• Backup bottlenecks created by server Next-generation disk- and network-optimized backup and recovery with
virtualization
data deduplication.
Next Generation Backup Starts Now
Today’s data protection demands are rapidly outstripping the capabilities of legacy tape-
• 46 percent of Fortune 1000 have
based solutions. The volume of data you must manage and protect continues to grow
implemented deduplication, and an
additional 36 percent are in active exponentially, and retention requirements further complicate data management. And,
planning (TheInfoPro Wave 14 Storage while virtual servers consolidate and streamline data management, they create backup
Study, August 2010) bottlenecks and additional storage management challenges.
• Transformation underway from tape- to
disk- and network-based infrastructures
Backup redesign has become an imperative for IT organizations in order to optimize their
virtualiztion initiatives, meet service level agreements, data compliance mandates, and
Redesign Your Backup budgetary constraints.
• Retain backups longer
• Replicate data offiste faster with minimal
bandwidth for tape-free disaster recovery
Next-generation backup starts now
Backup and recovery solutions with deduplication have been rapidly adopted in enterprises
• Recover reliably with advanced data
integrity around the world. 46 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have already implemented dedu-
• Optimize the benefits of server consolida- plication, and another 36 percent are actively planning to implement deduplication.
tion with faster VMware backups (Source: TheInfoPro Wave 14 Storage Study, August 2010)
•Simplify data management
EMC® deduplication storage systems and software are leading the transformation of backup
• Protect data across the enterprise: data and recovery by dramatically reducing the cost and amount of storage infrastructure needed
center, remote office, desktop/laptop
to protect and retain enterprise data. EMC’s portfolio of products helps meet the data pro-
tection needs of enterprises of all sizes as they seek to reduce costs, complexity, and risks.

Deduplicating redundant data before it is saved to disk reduces the size of the backup data-
“ EMC is the highest in-use and in-plan data set to a fraction of its original size. Backups are completed sooner, and can be saved on disk
reduction/deduplication vendor in and on site for longer retention periods for fast, reliable restores. Backup data can then be
Fortune 1000 companies.” quickly and safely replicated offsite with minimal bandwidth for disaster recovery—without
TheInfoPro Wave 14 Storage Study, August 2010 the costs, risks, and time delays associated with tapes and trucks.

With EMC backup and recovery solutions, you can:

• Retain backups onsite longer with 10-30x less disk
• Replicate data offsite faster with 99 percent bandwidth efficiency for tape-free
disaster recovery
• Recover data reliably with advanced levels of disk and data integrity

• Optimize the benefits of server consolidation with faster VMware backups

solution overview
“EMC is the clear leader in disk-based backup Redesign your backup with EMC
systems and software.”
Retain backups on disk and onsite longer—and reduce costs
Brian Babineau
Sr. Consulting Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group Deduplication vastly reduces the amount of redundant data backed up. This means you
January 2010 require less capacity to store that data. Additionally, you can retain more data on disk for
longer periods of time, which reduces or eliminates the risk, time, and cost to back up and
recover from tape. The result is faster operational restores—from disk—with lower costs.

Replicate data offsite faster over existing networks for tape-free

disaster recovery
When backup data is deduplicated, only the unique changes are replicated across an IP
network, requiring a tiny fraction of the bandwidth time and cost compared to traditional
“EMC Data Domain systems provide superb replication networks. This means you can send data offsite over existing networks and gain
reliability. We know that when we backup, we 99 percent bandwidth efficiency for cost-effective and reliable disk-based disaster recovery.
can quickly and easily restore. We never had
Tape operations can be eliminated or consolidated to a central location.
that sense of certainty before when we used
tape systems.”
Recover quickly and reliably with advanced levels of data integrity
Terry Knapton Restore data when you need it most. Continuous verification, fault detection, and system
Service Delivery Manager for Data Management self-healing ensure that your data is stored and recoverable so you can meet strict service-
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level agreements. Fast, single-step recovery retrieves data immediately without the need to
restore the last good full and incremental backups.

Optimize the benefits of server consolidation with faster

VMware backups
VMware backup images are large and can slow down backups. However, these backup
“EMC Avamar provides a huge time and images are highly redundant, making them a “sweet spot” for effective inline deduplication
cost savings for backup of multiple virtual
methods. EMC deduplication storage systems and software can reduce backup dataset size
machines.”
by 40-60x and shorten backup windows by up to 90 percent.
Curtis Damhof
Senior Network Administrator
Simplify data management
St. Peter’s Hospital
EMC unifies all of your backup and recovery operations. Centralized, easy-to-use Web-based
manage- ment and an at-a-glance dashboard views enable you to simplify and automate
backup and recovery for heterogeneous enterprise data for hundreds of offices worldwide
from a single location over existing network bandwidth.

Protect data across the enterprise: data center, remote office,

desktop/laptop
EMC can help centralize backup and recovery for your entire organization—from large
corporate data centers to virtual server infrastructures to remote offices, as well as
individual desktops and laptops. EMC eliminates the need for local tape backups and the
risk associated with offsite tape shipments, reducing complexity and increasing efficiency
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throughout your organization.
To learn more about how EMC products,
services, and solutions help solve your
business and IT challenges contact your
local representative or authorized
reseller—or visit us at www.EMC.com

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