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EMC Evolves Enterprise Data Protection with Enhancements

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A couple of months ago at EMCworld there were announcements  around ViPR, Pivotal along with trust and clouds among  other topics. During the recent  EMCworld event there were some questions among attendees what about backup and data protection announcements (or lack there of)?

 

Modernizing Data Protection

Today EMC  announced enhancements to its Backup Recovery Solutions (BRS) portfolio (@EMCBackup) that continue to enable information  and applications data protection modernizing including Avamar, Data Domain, Mozy and Networker.

 

Keep in mind you can’t go forward if you can’t go back,  which means if you do not have good data protection to go to, you can’t go  forward with your information.

 

EMC Modern Data Protection Announcements

As part of their Backup to the Future event,  EMC announced the following:

What did EMC announce for data protection modernization?

While  much of the EMC data protection announcement is around product, there is also the  aspect of rethinking data protection. This means looking at data protection  modernization beyond swapping out media (e.g. tape for disk, disk for cloud) or  one backup software tool for another. Instead, revisiting why data protection  needs to be accomplished, by whom, how to remove complexity and cost, enable  agility and flexibility. This also means enabling data protection to be used or  consumed as a service in traditional, virtual and private or hybrid cloud  environments.

 

EMC  uses as an example (what they refer to as Accidental Architecture) of how there  are different group and areas of focus, along with silos associated with data  protection. These groups span virtual, applications, database, server, storage among  others.
 

 

The results are silos that need to be transformed  in part using new technology  in new ways, as well as addressing a  barrier to IT convergence (people  and processes). The theme behind EMC data protection strategy is to enable  the needs and requirements of various groups (servers, applications, database,  compliance, storage, BC and DR) while removing complexity.

 

 

  Moving  from Silos of data protection to a converged service enabled model

Three data protection and backup focus areas

This  sets the stage for the three components for enabling a converged data  protection model that can be consumed or used as a service in traditional,  virtual and private cloud environments.

 


  EMC  three components of modernized data protection (EMC Future Backup)

 

The  three main components (and their associated solutions) of EMC BRS strategy are:

  • Data management services: Policy  and storage management, SLA, SLO, monitoring, discovery and analysis. This is  where tools such as EMC Data Protection Advisor (aka via WysDM acquisition) fit  among others for coordination or orchestration, setting and managing polices  along with other activities.
  • Data source integration:  Applications, Database, File systems, Operating System, Hypervisors and primary  storage systems. This is where data movement tools such as Avamar and  Networker among others fit along with interfaces to application tools such as  Oracle RMAN.
  • Protection storage:  Targets, destination storage system with media or mediums optimized for  protecting and preserving data along with enabling data footprint reduction  (DFR). DFR includes functionality such as compression and dedupe among others.  Example of data protection storage is EMC Data Domain.

 

Read more about product items announced and what this all means here in the second of this two-part series.

Ok, nuff said (for now).

Cheers gs


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