Fast, Reliable Data Protection from Dell and CommVault
Dell PowerVault DL2000 – Powered by CommVault
Date:
6/15/2009
Faced with exponential data growth, many IT organizations are struggling with the amount of critical information they must store, manage, administer and protect on a daily basis. At the same time, they are also seeking solutions to help increase backup reliability, decrease data protection costs and complexities, and meet stringent compliance and service-level agreements.
For example, a 30 percent annual data growth rate would mean that the amount of data that backup and recovery systems must support would more than double in the next three years. Considering that organizations can experience annual growth over 60 percent, backing up and restoring vital data within acceptable time frames can become increasingly difficult.
To help increase reliability and streamline the process, many organizations have looked beyond traditional tape-based backup to disk technologies, which are faster and more reliable than tape. According to a Gartner user survey analysis on storage management software usage driven by replication, de-duplication and virtualization, the overall trend towards backup to disk continues. 48 percent of the survey’s respondents stated that their first-line backup is to disk compared with only 35 percent backing up directly to tape.
To help meet the backup needs of organizations of all sizes, Dell is working with CommVault data protection software to provide a state-of-the-art solution that integrates disk-based backup and recovery with de-duplication technology to ensure cost-effectiveness.
Disk-based backup has generally been available in two primary forms: traditional backup software written to disk, and virtual tape libraries (VTLs). VTLs, which use disks to emulate tape drives, are valued for their ability to create multiple libraries and write multiple streams of data simultaneously.
Unlike traditional backup systems and VTLs that focus on short-term goals such as accelerated backups, the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 — powered by CommVault® — is a comprehensive backup and recovery platform that uses storage policies to move data copies to the optimal storage device, including tape, automatically. This turnkey solution also provides automated storage policy setup and centralized management, which can ease many aspects of backup, recovery and de-duplication. Organizations can also seamlessly integrate advanced add-on features such as archiving and replication to help scale and increase functionality as demands dictate.
The PowerVault DL2000 — powered by CommVault — is designed for simple, powerful, integrated disk-based backup, recovery and de-duplication. Setup and operation do not require separate software or devices; instead, administrators can manage their data protection through a centralized console to help unify administration across an entire enterprise. The backup software also comes integrated with dynamic disk provisioning, which is designed to set up un-configured disks and put them into immediate use. The addition of application-aware, file-based de-duplication helps ensure rapid data recovery, improved storage efficiency with streamlined manageability and high performance.
For example, a 30 percent annual data growth rate would mean that the amount of data that backup and recovery systems must support would more than double in the next three years. Considering that organizations can experience annual growth over 60 percent, backing up and restoring vital data within acceptable time frames can become increasingly difficult.
To help increase reliability and streamline the process, many organizations have looked beyond traditional tape-based backup to disk technologies, which are faster and more reliable than tape. According to a Gartner user survey analysis on storage management software usage driven by replication, de-duplication and virtualization, the overall trend towards backup to disk continues. 48 percent of the survey’s respondents stated that their first-line backup is to disk compared with only 35 percent backing up directly to tape.
To help meet the backup needs of organizations of all sizes, Dell is working with CommVault data protection software to provide a state-of-the-art solution that integrates disk-based backup and recovery with de-duplication technology to ensure cost-effectiveness.
Disk-based backup has generally been available in two primary forms: traditional backup software written to disk, and virtual tape libraries (VTLs). VTLs, which use disks to emulate tape drives, are valued for their ability to create multiple libraries and write multiple streams of data simultaneously.
Unlike traditional backup systems and VTLs that focus on short-term goals such as accelerated backups, the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 — powered by CommVault® — is a comprehensive backup and recovery platform that uses storage policies to move data copies to the optimal storage device, including tape, automatically. This turnkey solution also provides automated storage policy setup and centralized management, which can ease many aspects of backup, recovery and de-duplication. Organizations can also seamlessly integrate advanced add-on features such as archiving and replication to help scale and increase functionality as demands dictate.
The PowerVault DL2000 — powered by CommVault — is designed for simple, powerful, integrated disk-based backup, recovery and de-duplication. Setup and operation do not require separate software or devices; instead, administrators can manage their data protection through a centralized console to help unify administration across an entire enterprise. The backup software also comes integrated with dynamic disk provisioning, which is designed to set up un-configured disks and put them into immediate use. The addition of application-aware, file-based de-duplication helps ensure rapid data recovery, improved storage efficiency with streamlined manageability and high performance.
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