You feel the same pressures to secure your data as a massive corporation does, but without the massive budget. This white paper gives an overview of next-generation data protection and recovery options designed and priced for small and mid-sized business.
IBM data protection and recovery solutionsWhite paper
Next-generation data protection for
midsized companies.
July 2008Next-generation data protection for mid-sized companies.
Introduction Contents Just because your company isn't a major corporation with hundreds of offices and thousands of employees doesn't mean you're not under the same pressures 2 Introduction to maintain access to critical information in order to run your business and 2 What is next-generation data protection? remain competitive. But buying the same complex and expensive solutions as 3 Understanding the whole problem the major players in your industry can be cost-prohibitive-and unnecessary. 5 N ext-generation data protection and The purpose of this white paper is to provide an overview of next-generation recovery from IBM data protection and recovery options that are designed and priced specifically for 7 An extensive data protection and small and midsized businesses (SMBs). recovery portfolio8 M ission-critical application protection What is next-generation data protection? and recovery Next-generation data protection, or NGDP, is a term that describes a large 9 Granular e-mail object recovery number of disk-based backup and recovery technologies, including disk-to-disk 10 Off-site disaster recovery (D2D), virtual tape library (VTL), snapshots, continuous data protection (CDP), 11 Business continuity and resiliency remote office backup consolidation (ROBC), bare machine recovery (BMR), 13 R emote office data protection and disaster recovery (DR), wide area file services (WAFS) and others. backup consolidation NGDP solutions target the replacement or augmentation of traditional tape 13 M easurable improvements in support operations backup processes to help meet increasingly aggressive recovery point and 14 Conclusion recovery time objectives, as well as to help improve operational efficiency, 14 For more information business continuity and resiliency. 15 About Tivoli software from IBM For example, when running a tape backup once a night, you may be risking the loss of up to 24 hours worth of data-your recovery point is, at best, the time of the last backup, assuming the backup completed successfully. Many applications need to be stopped in order to run a tape backup, which can negatively affect operations and require staff to be at work or on call in case something goes wrong. Next-generation data protection for mid-sized companies.
Recovering data from tape backups can also be problematic. First, you need an Highlights experienced backup administrator to conduct the recovery, because recovering anything from tape can be a complicated process. Next, the right tapes will need to be loaded and read in the correct order. If you are running a typical weekly full backup with incremental backups during the week, you may need to read six or seven tapes in order to recover all the latest data. Your recovery time may be measured in hours or even days, assuming the backup tapes were created successfully.
Next-generation data protection takes advantage of the ever-increasing capacities Next-generation data protection takes and decreasing costs of hard disk storage, and can be used to address challenges advantage of the ever-increasing capacities such as improving your recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time and decreasing costs of hard disk storage. objectives (RTO) by performing fast, non-disruptive backups, and by performing data restoration using the direct, random access dynamics of spinning disks.
Understanding the whole problem Any comprehensive data protection solution is going to involve a lot of considerations and contingencies. There are many things that can go wrong with your data, and you need to be able to respond to each:
. Accidental or malicious deletion of critical data: You should have a solution that can quickly and easily restore individual files and folders. Restoring an entire system when you only need a single file is a waste of resources and could be disruptive to operations.
. Data that is lost or corrupted over a period of time: Not all data loss incidents are noticed immediately, as is often the case with virus and hacker attacks, or rolling database corruptions. You should have the ability to recover data from any previous point in time, and have it as granular as possible. Next-generation data protection ... [download for more]
