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Business Challenge
Faced with shrinking or static budgets and increasing recovery demands, enterprises of all sizes are wisely evaluating and implementing data deduplication to tackle the challenges of rapid data growth. The challenge of managing primary storage which is growing at 50-100% per year is further exacerbated by the growth of secondary data copies, which can be growing at 12 times these rates! Eliminating redundant data is simply a smart approach. Many organizations have turned to specialized hardware appliances to implement data deduplication. However, adding a point-level fix to the enterprise might not be the answer. Why? Dedupe Appliances are costly to procure, manage and scale. Appliances cannot deduplicate across multiple appliances. The process of deduplication within an appliance is optimized for ingestion speeds at the cost of vital restore performance. The benefits of dedupe when writing a tape copy is erased. Creating offsite retention copies to tape continues to be a routine process. An appliance rehydrates back all the data when creating a tape copy. The quick pain-relief achieved by these point-level fixes, quickly dissipates as your production growth rate drives more unique data into your recovery strategy. CommVault® Solution With the industry’s first end-to-end, block-based software deduplication, Simpana 8 offers a holistic approach to deduplication that extends across all tiers of secondary storage including disk and tape; encompassing global reduction of stored data across backups, archives, clients and platforms in both remote and centralized configurations. The result? Unprecedented operational efficiencies and cost savings. An end-to-end approach unlocks IT benefits which include faster network data transfers, shorter backup windows, faster recoveries, and more efficient utilization of your secondary storage infrastructure, thereby reducing the amount of disk/tape used for backup and archive copies by up to 90 percent. CommVault Simpana software brings a global approach to deduplication by integrating and embedding deduplication throughout your data infrastructure: from clients to disk to tape, across all data types, sources and platforms, and across all your backup and archive data sets and storage tiers, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized environments. CommVault’s unique and flexible data management architecture ensures that your deduplication capabilities scale with your data, avoiding the need to splinter deduplication into isolated devices. CommVault Simpana software scales to meet your precise storage requirements for both today and tomorrow. Simpana software enables you to extend those savings by seamlessly persisting the data reduction to long-term, low-cost archive storage such as tape. Simpana software’s unique deduplication across multiple media agents breaks the constraints of the “box” to shift copies of deduplicated data transparently to tape without “rehydration”. That archive copy set includes self-described properties so it can be used to service offsite vaulting or DR restore requirements. This feature combines to offer customers an option which can extend the 90 percent savings directly to the tape copies – significantly reducing the operational costs of long-term data retention in terms of media, drives and vaulting/handling costs. Employing content-aware deduplication ensures that the Simpana software is able to more accurately find and reduce common patterns in the data stream across disparate applications, file systems and data types – including the ability to encrypt (and deduplication) secure data sets. Utilizing precise cataloging over an open disk architecture, allows the Simpana software’s data movers to eradicate the reassembly latency or restore tax– resulting in faster recoveries and lower “taxes”. Embedding deduplication directly into the core of how you manage and move your data in an end-end or holistic fashion embraces and preserves global data reduction with fast ROI and long-term operational savings. CommVault Simpana software integrates and embeds deduplication to address a variety of data management challenges across the enterprise:
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