WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio By Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst January, 2009 Copyright 2009, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
ESG WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio Table of Contents Table of Contents..................................................................................................................................................... i IT Environment Challenges ................................................................................................................................... 1 Dramatic Changes ..............................................................................................
ESG WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio IT Environment Challenges Dramatic Changes Organizations of all sizes have been undergoing dramatic changes over the last few years. With an increasingly mobile workforce and global marketplace, dependence on digital content and 24/7 access to information have fueled significant investments in IT infrastructure and a near-exclusive use of messaging systems, office productivity tools, and electronic data to conduct business.
ESG WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio FIGURE 1.
ESG WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio FIGURE 2. BIAS TOWARD SINGLE VENDOR DATA PROTECTION SOLUTIONS To the best of your knowledge, how likely is it that your organization will look to a single vendor to support its data protection processes? Not likely. We would prefer to implement “bestof-breed” solutions from multiple vendors, 17% Don’t know, 3% Very likely. We would strongly prefer to standardize on one vendor for all aspects of the data protection process, 27% Somewhat likely.
ESG WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio to set aside a “backup window,” which, in traditional methods of backing up systems, might disrupt normal operations. Backup images can be stored on disk, removable media, or FTP locations. In the case of server virtualization environments, images may be moved between physical and virtual machines. NetBackup Data Protection with PureDisk Data Deduplication NetBackup enables disk-to-disk, disk-to-tape, and disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection.
ESG WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio Veritas Cluster Server High Availability Downtime tolerance for most organizations is at a minimum and for many, implementing preventative measures is the only way to ensure business continuity. Veritas Cluster Server is a high availability solution that protects physical and virtual machines, providing automated failover to local or remote physical or virtual machines and ensuring continued access to their applications.
ESG WHITE PAPER Symantec’s Data Management Portfolio level reports that aid in planning. Veritas Backup Reporter went beyond the scope of its own data protection portfolio to report on non-Symantec backup applications, addressing those organizations with a mix of backup solutions in their environment. Granular Recovery Technology Symantec offers a unique technology that minimizes secondary storage requirements and saves administrators valuable time during a recovery: its Granular Recovery Technology.
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