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EMC tackles traditional data protection challenges
Next-generation backup and recovery with global, source data de-duplication
Exponential data growth, regulatory compliance, strict service-level agreements, and shrinking backup windows are forcing enterprise organizations to rethink their data protection methods. And with companies pursuing aggressive virtualization strategies and struggling to protect data residing at remote offices, Integrated Data Security, Inc. (IDS) offers a solution to these challenges.
IDS's Data Backup solution solves the challenges associated with traditional backup, enabling fast, reliable backup and recovery for VMware® environments, remote offices, and data center LANs. IDS offers backup and recovery software that utilizes patented global, data de-duplication technology to identify redundant data segments at the source (or client), reducing daily backup data by up to 500x-before it is transferred across the network and stored to disk. This allows companies to utilize existing WAN bandwidth and backup data can be encrypted for added security. And less data results in dramatic capacity reductions and attendant energy and power savings.
Traditional data protection challenges
One of the key drivers impacting backup performance is the amount of data that must be protected within the available backup window. Traditional solutions are inefficient because they back up everything-including duplicate data files and sub-file data segments that exist across thousands of servers, desktops, laptops, and offices worldwide. When combined with traditional daily incremental and weekly full backup schedules, the impact of duplicate data is staggering-companies often move more than 200 percent of their primary data every week. As a result, meeting short backup windows can be very difficult due to the sheer volume of data that must cross already congested networks, backup servers, and infrastructure.
The impact is especially severe in virtualized environments and at remote offices. In virtual environments, each virtual machine represents an individual backup job, often with concurrent or overlapping backup windows, and includes redundant operating system, application, and file data. As a result, backups for virtual machines can often overrun backup windows and tax shared resources, leaving data unprotected and creating management issues for backup administrators. In remote offices, limited network bandwidth makes centralized, automated WAN-based backup nearly impossible. Instead, firms rely upon non-technical local staff, failure-prone tape-based hardware, and ad hoc manual processes that often result in unreliable remote office data protection.
Flexible solutions for without the need for hardware
IDS deploys lightweight, efficient software agents on the systems to be protected with no additional remote hardware required. This allows data to be backed up directly over existing WAN connections to our centralized, secure data center. Local tape backup and offsite tape shipments can be eliminated. Depending on your Recovery Time Objective (RTO), IDS provides local data storage blade options to meet your Business Continuity objectives.
To learn how an IDS Data Backup solution can give you peace of mind, contact your local IDS Business Continuity Consultant at (217) 531-1182