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Choosing the Right Path for Complete Data Protection THE KEYS TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE, PROTECT AND ANALYZE DATA It isn’t easy these days to effectively manage, protect and analyze data. So what is the right way to achieve these goals? This paper covers the key elements to look for in a modern data protection solution that can span public, private and hybrid clouds, as well as maintain the flexibility to address on-premises and off-premises data. Further, data protection technology has to be application aware in order to integrate well and provide easy pathways for data movement.
Protecting your data assets is not only more important than ever, it has become more difficult than ever. Information is scattered on-premises and off-premises, in legacy and new applications, plus in hypervisors and cloud services, with this provider and that provider. Traditional data protection and management paradigms can no longer cope. They simply can’t get the job done. One answer is to introduce multiple products with each managing one facet of the data protection puzzle. But this approach adds significantly to cost – and the IT administrator is left to navigate a maze of complexity, hopping from one screen to another trying to manage policies, find the reason for a performance slowdown or failed backup, or recover a user’s data. This kind of cobbled together, non-integrated approach is failing badly in the face of an unprecedented explosion in data volume. Today’s enterprises, therefore, demand technologies that treat data holistically and as a strategic asset. A better approach is urgently needed.
CHOOSING THE BEST PATH To truly treat data as a strategic asset, new data management approaches must deliver: • Agility – high speed data protection that quickly adapts to change • Integration – tight understanding of infrastructure capabilities and limits • Flexibility – application aware, hypervisor aware, operating system aware, cloud aware • Reliability – trustworthy data protection that provides quick, granular restoration • Scalability – the solution must grow as data sets grow • Insight – reporting and tracking to facilitate better-decision making • Simplicity – streamlined usability that minimizes scripting or manual intervention Fulfilling these requirements isn’t easy – but they are achievable. The latest generation of data protection solutions lets you manage your data assets, regardless of where they are located or where workloads are being run. You can protect data on-premises in your datacenter, within a hyperconverged infrastructure, off-premises in public clouds, or in a combination of all of them. Turnkey enterprise solutions exist that combine enterprise backup, disaster recovery (DR) and archiving needs with third party storage, as well as all major cloud and virtualization platforms. Their flexible character allows you to start small and easily scale as your data grows. An all-in-one approach makes it possible to manage all functions from a single console. This eliminates the need for multiple, expensive products that increase capital costs and management overhead. Additionally, it is even possible in some cases to unify the management of the entire storage, data protection and server environments from the same interface.
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The latest generation of data protection solutions lets you manage your data assets, regardless of where they are located or where workloads are being run.
What is important in data protection these days is for enough intelligence to be built in to efficiently and consistently protect missioncritical applications and databases. This must be combined with the scalability and automation to best use resources, such as automating how you manage VMs throughout their lifecycle. Fortunately, reference architectures are available to optimize and attain data protection and management objectives with ease. This enables organizations to manage explosive data growth, protect mission-critical apps and databases, harness virtualization, accelerate the journey toward the cloud, and accomplish practical and efficient DR.
ACHIEVING DATA PROTECTION GOALS Modern data protection solutions have many benefits in the real world. They have been proven to: 1 Accelerate Cloud Implementations. You can unify cloud data protection by simplifying backup and recovery to, from, and in the cloud. 2 Manage Explosive Data Growth. You can maximize utilization of storage and network infrastructure by eliminating redundant data at the source with embedded global source-side deduplication. 3 Protect Mission Critical Applications and Databases. You have new ways to cut the cost, risk, time and complexity required to optimize and protect your critical applications and databases. Applicationand database-aware intelligence, delivered in a single platform, streamlines and simplifies data protection, making almost instant, granular recovery a reality. 4 Harness Virtualization. You can achieve a more agile and costeffective infrastructure through advanced VM provisioning, management and recovery tools that can help you turn your virtual infrastructure into a private cloud. 5 Assure Practical and Efficient DR. You can accelerate time-torecovery and reduce risk to the business. Automated disaster recovery processes and workflow automation bring new ways to boost agility, efficiency, and reliability.
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PROTECTION WITHOUT COMPLEXITY OR COMPROMISE For many businesses, success or failure can be defined by the organization’s ability to deal with rapidly increasing data sets. Yet the latest generation of data protection solutions can help organizations like yours to take control of their data, better cope with the cloud, and minimize the costs of addressing exponential data growth.
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The correct focus is to treat the cloud as an extension of your data center, applying the same approach to how you determine where workloads and data should live as you do in the data center. All the
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underlying technologies that power our backup and recovery — security, encryption, deduplication and more — can be extended to the cloud so you don’t have to worry about complex scripting, extra software or third-party API connectivity. It has to all be integrated in a single end-to-end solution with pre-built workflows and simplified image creation to reduce both backup costs and risk and make it easy to take advantage of the cloud. Organizational efficiency can be greatly boosted and downtime markedly reduced by the introduction of modern data protection. Its rapid recovery, self-service access, and business-focused capabilities make it possible to leverage data as a strategic asset. This leads to improved data backup and recovery processes regardless of where your workloads and data reside, with protection that spans your entire environment, without complexity or compromise.
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