Solutions for Backup Optimization

Lightning-Fast Backup and Immediate Recovery... Simplified. Reliable. Cost Effective.

Backup Challenges

• Unmanageability - Backup of mushrooming Terabytes of data consumes too much of limited administrative resources (time and personnel).
• Shrinking backup windows - Ever-growing amounts of data take longer to back up at the same time as enterprises are being pushed to operate ever closer to 24x7x365.
• Escalating costs of downtime - Low tolerance for planned downtime entails even lower tolerance for unplanned downtime from failed backup jobs or lengthy recovery processes.
• Smaller budgets - Companies hunt for ways to shave costs while typical backup scenarios get increasingly expensive as the amount of data to be backed up multiplies.
• Need for transactional integrity and point-in-time consistency - Backup of databases and messaging data stores needs to be accurate.

Virtual Tape Solutions

Storage Engine VirtualTape Library (VTL) enables disk to emulate leading tape libraries, delivering the speed, reliability, and availability benefits of disk-based backup while allowing users to continue using existing tape backup software and procedures. VTL leverages a Fibre Channel or IP SAN to accelerate backup and restore speeds and consolidate management and provisioning of backup resources. Data on virtual tapes can be easily exported to physical tapes for offsite storage and archiving. In addition, existing physical tapes can be imported to disk via VTL to take advantage of much faster restore capabilities.

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Tape Backup Acceleration Solutions

Storage Engine's HyperTrac Backup solution and ZeroImpact Backup (ZIB) solution consolidate and dramatically accelerate tape backup while using standard, off-the-shelf third party backup software. HyperTrac Backup leverages your existing backup server environment, while ZIB entails centralized deployment of backup software at the Synchronism appliance, dramatically simplifying backup management.

HyperTrac Backup (links to page or data sheet)

• High-speed, no impact file-by-file or full image backup with backup software running from your dedicated backup server.
• High-speed full, incremental, differential backup anytime, using existing backup software.
• Accelerate the backup speed of your existing backup software on your backup server.
• Little or no impact on application servers or LAN, for on-peak backup.
• No backup window for transparent backup during peak hours ("on-peak backup").
• Fast file-by-file restore (image restore using backup software's image option).
• Only 1 copy of any basic backup software necessary.
• Lower TCO - no need to purchase and manage expensive push agents, open file agents, SAN options, tape/library sharing options, backup software agents, etc., at each server.
• Transactional integrity and point-in-time consistency during backup of databases and message stores with Synchronism's application-aware Snapshot Agents (currently available for Microsoft® Exchange, Oracle®, Lotus® Notes, Sybase®, IBM® DB2 UDB, and SQL Server).
• Quiesce time can now be measured in seconds rather than hours - Snapshot Agents also preclude the necessity of putting databases/data stores in backup mode for extended periods of time
• Additional functionality added to backup software, while desired features of existing backup software maintained.
• Driven by the versatile TimeMark engine.
  

ZeroImpact Backup ((links to page or data sheet)

• Centrally managed high-speed, no-impact full image backup with backup software running on Synchronism Server.
• Lightning-fast full, incremental, differential disk image backup.
• Centralized backup and recovery at the Synchronism Server.
• Fast full image restore.
• Little or no impact on application servers or LAN, for on-peak backup (no backup window).
• Need only 1 copy of certified raw device backup software.
• Transactional integrity and point-in-time consistency during backup of databases and message stores with Synchronism's application-aware Snapshot Agents (currently available for Microsoft® Exchange, Oracle®, Lotus® Notes/Domino, Sybase®, IBM® DB2 UDB, Informix, SQL Server, and file systems such as Windows and NetWare).
• Quiesce time can now be measured in seconds rather than hours - Snapshot Agents also preclude the necessity of putting databases/data stores in backup mode for extended periods of time.
• Lower TCO - no need to purchase and manage expensive push agents, open file agents, SAN options, tape/library sharing options, backup software agents, etc., at each server.
• TimeMark option facilitates incremental and differential backup of large databases while avoiding the introduction of overhead from database APIs.
• Minimized TCO, Maximized ROI
• No need to purchase and incur administrative overhead costs managing expensive push agents, open file agents, backup software database agents, SAN options, tape library sharing options, etc. at each server, minimizing TCO.
• Simplified management of backup centralized at the centralized Java console minimizes administrative overhead costs.
• Backup has little or no impact on application servers or LAN, and recovery is immediate, so 24x7x365 business productivity is achieved, maximizing returns.
• Maximally effective backup/recovery is achieved at minimized cost and administrative overhead, maximizing ROI on backup solutions and human resources.