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Coping with the credit crunch
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As end users continue to try and ‘do more with less’ during the current economic turmoil,
SNS-UK asked several vendors for tips on where to start.
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With budgets stretched the short-term focus falls on proving the value of any proposed storage
technologies as customers want to be sure of maximising any investments and almost expect an
immediate return from any spend by whilst also avoiding major disruption or unnecessary
complexity, says Nigel Tozer, Business Development Director EMEA, CommVault.
With eDiscovery, compliance and infrastructure. The compressed with minimal
SLA requirements still driving data state of the deduplicated data can outlay.
storage requirements up, there be transparently migrated to tiers
really couldn’t be a better time to of cheaper storage for longer Out-of-control storage costs, and
consider deduplication as the retention needs, reducing storage slow throughput on backup and
solution that reduces storage space dedicated to backup and archiving systems, and lengthy
pressures. archive, on both disk and tape, by recovery times, can be addressed, a
up to 90%. Embedded software particularly common issue when it
The benefits of adopting such an deduplication tools mean the involves archived data stored
intuitively integrated software benefits of block-level outside the primary backup media.
approach are immediate cost- deduplication can now be Deduplication can also be the
effective scaling and system distributed across an entire answer to remove the cost, risk and
performance improvements across organisation’s backup and archive the complexity of sending tapes to
the entire data management data flow, quickly and effectively disaster recovery (DR) sites.
Double-Take Software’s Ina Masters recommends the centralised approach…
Backup is still a big cost on both the additional cost if IT staff have to ensure that the
time and resources for the IT team, travel in the event that a recovery central backup is
particularly for organisations that needs to take place, and this protected.
have multiple offices to support. approach can be both very damaging
Branch or remote offices produce to the business and expensive. This centralised
data every day that is valuable to the approach cuts the costs involved in
business, but protecting this For companies with these branch running the tape backups, as these
information has traditionally been office environments, continuously will probably only be done at the
more cumbersome to do as it replicating data and system state data centre or head quarters, but
required tape-based systems at each information locally and then to a also improves the efficiency of the
office. This can be expensive. central location instead means that backup procedure. In addition, for
the most up to date data is always individual system failure the local
There are also additional risks available. This can then be disk backup can be used to remotely
associated with this distributed combined with snapshot technology, restore the system that has failed.
approach to backup: if the backups like Volume Shadow Copy Service The amount of effort and cost
are managed by untrained and non- (VSS) that comes with Microsoft required is far lower, improving total
technical employees, the process Windows 2003 and above, or cost of ownership and business
may not be working properly. Add in Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to benefit.
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