HP Data Protection. Business challenge: Resulting pain points: HP technology solutions:

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1 Business challenge: HP Data Protection Solutions GUIDE How to protect rising data volumes without increasing operational costs and management overheads Resulting pain points: Meeting the backup window More data, but the same amount of time for backup Complex disaster recovery provision Cost and management overheads of sending data offsite Unreliable remote office backup Few, or no, IT staff at remote sites to ensure that backup is done Slow restore performancemeeting business continuity SLAs can be a challenge HP technology solutions: Improve manageability by unifying and consolidating backup and DR to a single device Increase efficiency by storing up to 20x more deduplicated data on the same disk Meet backup windows with super-charged multistream backup and leading backup performance Reduce the cost of off-siting data using network efficient data replication Deliver lights-out automated backup and replication of remote offices and manage multiple sites from a single pane of glass Provide rapid file access with file restore at the same performance as file store

2 Taking a closer look at data protection Like insurance, data protection is a must have for any organization. While you may not have been bitten by a recent incident of data loss, statistics suggest that at some point you will be. Even with the most robust systems and software, you re still at risk from human error, fire, flood and other disasters. Your business is also increasingly under threat from malicious attacks including virus, hackers and even disgruntled employees. Today s climate of IT budget cuts and resource constraints can mean that data protection, if it s working okay, gets overlooked in terms of priorities. But what if revisiting your data protection strategy could free up resource and budget for more transformational IT activities? Consider: How much of your time is spent dealing with backup and restore? What proportion of operational expense is taken up by data protection? Whether you are confident in data protection at your remote sites? How much time you spend recovering single files, mailboxes, or other items? What else could you be doing if you weren t dealing with backup and recovery? The point is, even if your data protection is working today, HP could make it simpler, easier and less costly, while helping you to avoid being bitten by data loss in the future. 2

3 Today s data protection business challenges Protecting all your data There s simply more data to protect, and more data to manage. Over the next decade, IDC predicts: 10x increase in the number of servers (virtual and physical) worldwide 50x the amount of information managed by enterprise data centers 75x growth in the number of files the data center will have to deal with BUT only 1.5x increase in the number of IT professionals Big data needs big data protection and this in turn puts pressure on capacity and hardware costs, performance and backup windows, management and staffing. Protecting all your data - wherever Customers often tell us that in the course of responding to the unpredictable data growth, they ve simply added storage here and there, and are often using multiple applications and platforms to protect their data. In the end what they ve got is more complexity and more to manage. We call it system sprawl. When you add in the data held at remote and branch offices, this picture becomes even more complicated. Estimates suggest that as much as 50% of organizational data resides outside the data center. Protecting data across heterogeneous platforms can be complex, and unreliable especially in places where the IT resources available are limited, or possibly non-existent. Finding and restoring data in these environments can be equally challenging. Protecting all your data - whenever Data protection also means being able to restore files whenever they are needed. For some data this is instantaneous, for example in mission critical applications. For other data it may be needed years later. Companies are now faced with a raft of legislation such as the infamous Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), which means that organizations may need to restore data that is months or years old for the purposes of e-discovery. Company and industry guidelines frequently specify multi-year data retention. This adds to management overheads in addition to both storage and energy costs. 3

4 How data protection should be At HP, we believe that the solution to today s IT sprawl lies in a converged infrastructure that reunifies business, application, and infrastructure functions. What this means in terms of data protection is that, instead of lots of different fragments of data protection, we take a look at it as a whole story. Converged Data Protection Automate: Disk Backup with deduplication and replication DATA CENTER Virtual servers REGIONAL OFFICE Simplify: manage with single pane of glass Exchange server WAN Link WAN Link BRANCH OFFICE Network efficient replication of data Consolidate: Disk Backup with deduplication File server DISASTER RECOVERY SITE server BRANCH OFFICE Scale-out storage (disk and tape) Long-term archive As a result we can: Simplify unify pools of storage from different platforms and different parts of the organization, providing a single, central backup store. Consolidate make it easier to manage and maintain data protection hardware and software, allowing you to discharge different service level agreements for virtually any application or storage tier from one console. Deduplicate reduce the amount of data you need to store by up to 20x by eliminating the need to physically store duplicate data. Replicate use deduplication to enable replication that is more network efficient, reducing the cost of transmitting data off-site for disaster recovery or centralized remote office backup. Automate backup and disaster recovery to deliver lights-out data protection that s ideal for smaller or remote offices. Scale-out do all this in a way that lets you keep pace with data growth, and delivers enterprise wide data protection. 4

5 Getting it right for your environment A range of technology choices Before diving any deeper into solutions, there are some considerations that should be taken into account in order to get the solution exactly right for your environment. What s the value of your data? Not all data is created equal, and while keeping all data close at hand on high speed disks might seem ideal for access purposes, in reality to do so could be prohibitively expensive. For example, it s unlikely that a three month old , or an individual PowerPoint presentation, will be as valuable to your organization as the real-time customer order database. So why pay premium prices to store all your data on primary disk when you could actively archive it to lower cost tiers of storage? Tiers of data protection can be used to match the value of your data over its lifecycle to save a great deal of money, and deliver different levels of data protection. What service-level requirements do you need to meet? SLAs are generally driven by the value of the data to the organization, and based on two key considerations: Recovery time objectives (RTO) how quickly do you need to restore different types of data? In the case of an orders database, it is likely that you can t afford any downtime, but an individual user may be prepared to wait a few hours for the recovery of their PowerPoint file. Recovery point objectives (RPO) how much data can you afford to lose before restore? Again, the recovery point objective for the same orders database is likely to be instant; you can t afford to lose any of the data. However, with a file server, it may be acceptable to recover with a backup copy of the PowerPoint that was taken the day before. The RTO and RPO for your data will vary by application, department and location. There are a wide range of technologies that are associated with data protection, including disk systems, disk backup systems, tape drives and tape libraries. Each one of these can offer a different set of benefits positioned along a continuum of performance and the risks that they address. In general, the faster the recovery time and the shorter the recovery point, the more expensive the solution. In most cases, customers will choose to blend storage technologies in a tiered storage solution to balance meeting RPO/RTO with cost and service-level-agreements (SLAs). Whatever the requirements, HP has it covered with the broadest portfolio of data protection solutions. 5

6 HP has data protection covered At a very high level, you can see that HP has a full range of solutions to cover all the points of the data protection continuum. Hours to Days Days to Months More than Months Application Primary Storage Snaps Disk based Backup Deduplication Disk or Tape Archive Application restart Disk Storage Systems P2000/MSA, P4000/LeftHand, P6000/EVA, P9000/XP and 3PAR Daily backup and restore StoreOnce Backup Systems with deduplication Offsite disaster recovery StoreOnce Backup Systems with deduplication and replication Active archive Disk Archive System X Archive software Long-term offsite archive Tape Drives/Libraries Backup Application HP Data Protector and all major backup applications Application restart for business continuity In mission critical environments, reliability is key. HP offers a range of highly scalable primary disk solutions delivering optimum availability in a range of capacities. They include all the functionality you would expect from the market leading disk manufacturer including storage virtualization, high availability, reliability and failover features. Daily backup and restore Consolidate concurrent backup streams to a single HP Store- Once Disk Backup System with industry leading store and restore performance to meet your backup windows. The only solutions to offer high-availability data protection 1, you can be confident in the availability of your backup. Reduce staff overheads by automating backup and simplifying management from a single pane of glass. Increase storage efficiency using the StoreOnce unified data deduplication algorithm to retain up to 20x more data on disk. Offsite disaster recovery StoreOnce deduplication also opens the way for network efficient offsite data replication, transmitting only changed, deduplicated data over low cost, lower bandwidth links to meet the needs for disaster recovery solutions as well as centralizing remote office backup. 1 High availability is available with the HP B6200 StoreOnce Backup System Active archive HP disk systems with archive software can be used to provide an integrated solution. You can effectively free up primary disk space while keeping archive data to hand before offloading to tape. Long-term offsite archive While tape can also be used for backup and restore, today it is ideally suited to longer-term archive. HP offers a wide range of market leading LTO Ultrium tape drives, autoloaders and tape libraries to scale up many hundreds of petabytes of archive data. Data protection applications HP Data Protection products are supported on all OS platforms and with all major backup applications. In addition to third party software, you can centrally manage all HP products using HP Data Protector Software. This software is tightly integrated with HP storage to meet the most stringent recovery requirements across the enterprise, from data center to remote offices. HP Services In addition to the products you need, HP also offers the widest range of services to support you from designing the right solution, to implementing and fine-tuning it. HP s Storage Consulting Services portfolio delivers a converged infrastructure that ensures rapid data accessibility and enhanced manageability for greater business agility. 6

7 Next steps Your company wouldn t be without property, liability and other key insurance. Don t unnecessarily put one of your most valuable assets, data, at risk either. You never know when a disaster will strike, so please permit us to understand your environment and to propose a solution that improves your data protection and lowers your costs. Just contact your certified HP partner or your HP storage specialist to learn more. If you don t have a contact at the moment, please us at [email protected] and we ll identify the best resources to assist your company. Thank you for allowing HP to assist you with this business-critical requirement! 7

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