Backup Consolidation                                                            [Request Info]

Backups are an essential part of your IT process. However, they can also be a drain on your resources because they can be very time-consuming, and are often unreliable. You used to be able to take a full backup each night, but that’s not good enough anymore. You’re a 24x7 business. You no longer have all night. Today, you often end up not meeting your backup window, risking that a full restore won’t be available when needed. Or you live with lower application performance until backup jobs have completed. When restores are needed, you work from tape and deal with the resulting impact on end-user productivity. But there is a solution—backup consolidation. Consolidated, automated backup can help you reduce the amount of time you spend both backing up and restoring information. You’ll see improved backup reliability, application availability and system manageability. And you can also lower your data protection costs because you’ll be more efficient with your media, hardware and administration. For example, centralizing backup removes the need to have staff at remote sites to manage backups and backup media.

By-products of this are improvements in backup reliability (no need to search high and low for that missing backup tape) and improved restore times. In addition, centralized management and control make it easier to monitor the success or failure of backup jobs—whether onsite or across the continent.

Our proven backup consolidation solutions can help you reduce your backup and restore windows while providing reliability and security by:

• Removing the congestion of backup jobs that can be caused by insufficient tape drive availability

• Providing rapid and reliable recovery and operational simplicity for backup of Windows® file servers

•Offering unattended backup and restoration of mission-critical IT resources

• Delivering the reliability to protect growing data volumes When tied to a robust business continuity and availability strategy, you can benefit from enhanced application and information availability resulting in enhanced user productivity, more effective decision making and competitive advantage.