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on 01-04-2010 12:05 PM
Introduction
Solving today’s enterprise data management challenges
The explosion of data and increasing pressure on IT to provide dependable recovery of files and email on enterprise networks requires an effective data management strategy that meets both long- and short-term needs. Long-term planning considers the software, hardware, and technical resources needed to meet not only recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO) required by business units, but also new challenges such as legal discovery and compliance. Unfortunately, daily IT demands often hamper effective long-term planning and force administrators to fight fires.
The right data management solution helps enterprises effectively tackle short-term pains such as smaller backup windows and uncontrolled email growth while also providing the scalability and flexibility needed to meet broader strategic goals. This paper discusses how two solutions from Symantec—Veritas NetBackup™ for data protection and Symantec Enterprise Vault™ for archiving— can help enterprises address both short- and long-term data management challenges.
At the core of every data management strategy lie backup and recovery. Yet, many enterprises today find their backup and recovery process strained; they still struggle to:
Background
It is not uncommon for an enterprise today to support thousands of desktops and hundreds of servers hosting email systems and a variety of enterprise applications. Not long ago, applications, systems, and files were largely centralized and manageable. Today, both end-user expectations and the number of enterprise applications have increased, pacing the exponential growth of data. With this growth, enterprise data has spread across remote sites and data centers, making rapid recovery and protection more difficult.
Of course, data protection methods have evolved to help enterprises manage this situation. Disk-based backup and solutions for both desktops and remote site protection have existed for some time. More recent methods of data protection, such as synthetic backups and snapshots, have emerged to help address backup and recovery needs. Yet, despite these new methods for data protection and the decreasing cost of disk storage, many backup administrators continue to rely on traditional methods and, consequently, struggle not just to protect data, but to provide rapid and granular recovery of valuable data that have been lost or corrupted.
The recent growth in unstructured data and the increasing reliance on email to communicate and exchange documents have dramatically increased the stress of data protection and management. Many companies, in fact, now consider email to be mission critical. Recent studies suggest that email storage now contains as much as 75% of a company’s intellectual property. How do organizations protect their growing email data backed up nightly when email is expected to be available 24 x 7? What if a legal challenge required IT to find files and email related to last quarter’s earnings? With little extra time to maintain backup windows, IT administrators are facing a significant challenge to meeting stringent business requirements. Amid exponential data growth and increasing user demands for data recoverability, IT budgets remain largely flat. There is a cure for this pain. When used together, Veritas NetBackup software for advanced data protection and Enterprise Vault software for archiving and email management provide a powerful and viable approach for addressing both current and future data management challenges.
To read the complete article, please download the PDF.
Solving today’s enterprise data management challenges
The explosion of data and increasing pressure on IT to provide dependable recovery of files and email on enterprise networks requires an effective data management strategy that meets both long- and short-term needs. Long-term planning considers the software, hardware, and technical resources needed to meet not only recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO) required by business units, but also new challenges such as legal discovery and compliance. Unfortunately, daily IT demands often hamper effective long-term planning and force administrators to fight fires.
The right data management solution helps enterprises effectively tackle short-term pains such as smaller backup windows and uncontrolled email growth while also providing the scalability and flexibility needed to meet broader strategic goals. This paper discusses how two solutions from Symantec—Veritas NetBackup™ for data protection and Symantec Enterprise Vault™ for archiving— can help enterprises address both short- and long-term data management challenges.
At the core of every data management strategy lie backup and recovery. Yet, many enterprises today find their backup and recovery process strained; they still struggle to:
- Recover data simply, reliably, and efficiently
- Protect and manage growing volumes of data across storage tiers
- Reduce the cost and complexity of data and information management
Background
It is not uncommon for an enterprise today to support thousands of desktops and hundreds of servers hosting email systems and a variety of enterprise applications. Not long ago, applications, systems, and files were largely centralized and manageable. Today, both end-user expectations and the number of enterprise applications have increased, pacing the exponential growth of data. With this growth, enterprise data has spread across remote sites and data centers, making rapid recovery and protection more difficult.
Of course, data protection methods have evolved to help enterprises manage this situation. Disk-based backup and solutions for both desktops and remote site protection have existed for some time. More recent methods of data protection, such as synthetic backups and snapshots, have emerged to help address backup and recovery needs. Yet, despite these new methods for data protection and the decreasing cost of disk storage, many backup administrators continue to rely on traditional methods and, consequently, struggle not just to protect data, but to provide rapid and granular recovery of valuable data that have been lost or corrupted.
The recent growth in unstructured data and the increasing reliance on email to communicate and exchange documents have dramatically increased the stress of data protection and management. Many companies, in fact, now consider email to be mission critical. Recent studies suggest that email storage now contains as much as 75% of a company’s intellectual property. How do organizations protect their growing email data backed up nightly when email is expected to be available 24 x 7? What if a legal challenge required IT to find files and email related to last quarter’s earnings? With little extra time to maintain backup windows, IT administrators are facing a significant challenge to meeting stringent business requirements. Amid exponential data growth and increasing user demands for data recoverability, IT budgets remain largely flat. There is a cure for this pain. When used together, Veritas NetBackup software for advanced data protection and Enterprise Vault software for archiving and email management provide a powerful and viable approach for addressing both current and future data management challenges.
To read the complete article, please download the PDF.
