Brochure. Data Protector 9: Nine reasons to upgrade

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1 Brochure Data Protector 9: Nine reasons to upgrade

2 Data Protector 9: Nine reasons to upgrade Shifting data center requirements are forcing IT organizations to reassess backup and recovery processes, strategies, and infrastructure. Organizations large and small are challenged to keep pace with increased data volumes, manage diverse data formats and information complexity, integrate advanced data center technologies such as virtualization and cloud, and adopt new business models such as IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) all while still managing and protecting data according to tightening internal policies and always-on 24/7 service level objectives. At HP Autonomy, we believe that in your data center where the growth of data remains unabated and your infrastructure must quickly scale in all directions to meet changing demands, that you have to be able to rely on a backup and recovery approach that delivers a high degree of intelligence and automation to address your needs. HP Data Protector software 9.0 offers adaptive intelligence, advanced application integration, and added automation capabilities to help you gain transparency, predictability, and business resiliency in your IT environments. 2

3 This brochure outlines nine reasons to advance your current version of backup software to Data Protector 9.0. Advantages of moving to Data Protector software 9.0 include the following: Run your backup and recovery on the most current and modern architecture including a new internal database Take advantage of new innovative features: snapshot protection, federated deduplication, enterprise-grade scalability, priority based scheduling, virtual server protection, and real-time analytical reporting. All of these features are integrated to protect today s highly dynamic and diverse datacenter environment. The key highlight of this latest release is introduction of intuitive reporting and monitoring, guided intelligence, and real-time predictive analytics that simplify and optimize your backup and recovery experience. 1. Maximize storage capacity utilization with a highly efficient deduplication Built-in deduplication within HP Data Protector software is powered by HP StoreOnce, a patented, highly efficient deduplication technology. HP StoreOnce technology utilizes advanced algorithms that enables a high storage efficiency and high speed backup and recovery experience. It is a light-weight technology that can run at the source of the application, backup server, or backup target device. This flexibility enables you to achieve cost efficiencies and the most optimal backup infrastructure. The powerful combination of Data Protector s native integration with primary application environments such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Hyper-V, SQL Server, VMware vsphere, Oracle, SAP, SAP HANA and HP StoreOnce deduplication dramatically reduces storage requirements for protecting these applications and improves their restore speed. Overall with HP StoreOnce, you gain improved business continuity, lower total cost of ownership, and optimal use of backup infrastructure and IT resources while reducing your risk exposure due to compliance, governance, and missed SLAs. 2. Dramatically improve utilization of backup infrastructure through real-time analytical insights As an HP Data Protector customer, you can take advantage of a highly interactive and intuitive dashboard called HP Backup Navigator that delivers analytical insights to help you gain better utilization of backup resource. HP Backup Navigator, a companion product to HP Data Protector software, enables you to collect, correlate, and analyze trends in backup and recovery data to isolate and expose patterns in your data protection operation. Designed to rapidly analyze large volumes of operational data, HP Backup Navigator quickly identifies performance-related information, capacity utilization rates and trends, and future infrastructure requirements, based on projected data characteristics and infrastructure capabilities. This analysis helps you to plan and optimize your CAPEX and OPEX spending to target 100% utilization of your data protection infrastructure and keeps you from resorting to reactionary approaches to problem resolution that often lead to complicated future challenges. Analyzing and trending historical backup data results in predictions concerning future needs. 3

4 3. Anticipate issues and proactively address them before they occur HP Backup Navigator s reporting system includes interactive and interrelated capabilities that enable it to act as an intelligent guide that can analyze, isolate, and make recommendations for issues that may exist within your data protection approach. Unlike static reporting tools, HP Backup Navigator provides summary information concerning the status of each backup infrastructure component, the operating systems involved, and the backup definitions. With this level of detail, issues that can arise, wherever they arise, can be isolated to the specific point in the backup infrastructure logical and physical. Once isolated, IT staff can trace the problem to its root cause, quickly resolve current issues, and use the trending and predictability aspects of the tool. These capabilities help you address future resource conflicts and systematic/systemic issues before they cascade into catastrophic, expensive failures. For example, HP Backup Navigator simplifies troubleshooting by automatically and intelligently selecting a unique set of relevant reports called Related Report that can expedite your root-cause investigation. These small report sets are chosen based on the issue or problem that you are trying to discover and the logical next steps that should be taken to get more value. User interface cues highlight problem areas while related reports guide identifies next logical points of investigation. Interactive user interface components enable the IT staff to drill deeper into the problematic area. 4

5 User interface cues highlight problem areas while related reports guide identifies next logical points of investigation. Detailed data that can be used for self-service efforts or as a point of reference when contacting HP. 4. Easily meet strict recovery SLAs through snapshot integration and Instant Recovery According to Gartner, HP is one of the earliest vendors to embrace the strategy of integrating with storage arrays to manage the creation, backup, and recovery of snapshots. We believe that snapshots are an excellent way to address the issue of shrinking backup windows to minimize the impact of backup on application performance and availability, and meet strict RPO/RTO needs. HP offers snapshot integration through Zero Downtime Backup (ZDB) and Instant Recovery (IR) features. Zero Downtime Backup can manage and orchestrate the process of snapshot creation and copying of data to secondary storage. With Instant Recovery, you can stage applicationconsistent snapshots on the storage array for rapid recovery. The number of snapshots on the array can be easily configured. This capability, combined with application integration, enables you to meet very strict RTO requirements in mission-critical application environments. Extending ZDB/IR support for HP 3PAR StoreServ Now you can take advantage of Zero Downtime Backup and Instant Recovery for data and applications in the HP 3PAR StoreServ environment. File systems, Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft applications for all the leading operating systems Windows, Linux, and HP-UX are supported. 5

6 5. Improve IT productivity with simplified and centralized backup, recovery, and replication management With HP Data Protector software, you can manage backup and recovery (across physical and virtual servers), user management, object copy, device and media management, monitoring and reporting, disaster recovery, snapshot management, and client management directly from the HP Data Protector console. With HP StoreOnce integration, the same HP Data Protector console is extended to perform additional management, configuration, and reporting, allowing you to: Create and configure StoreOnce Catalyst stores (both encrypted and non-encrypted) Set bandwidth throttling that enables you to specify and control the amount of bandwidth consumed by the backup process Set threshold quotas for StoreOnce stores and get alerts when those thresholds are reached. This enables you to proactively manage capacity of StoreOnce devices. Manage the replication process between multiple Catalyst stores In a nutshell, with HP Data Protector you can centrally manage your backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and replication processes across remote sites, datacenters, and physical and virtual environments with a single platform. 6. Improve disaster recovery and recovery time with increased automation The recent version of HP Data Protector software augments its best-in-class Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery (EADR) capability by introducing more flexibility and automation to improve the speed of disaster recovery. These new capabilities include: New object selection methods, restore options, and wizard pages that allow you to further simplify and automate the image creation and system recovery process. Administrators can choose to inject additional drivers during the time of image creation and/or image restore process, which greatly reduces the overall system recovery time. The new flexible recovery options automate the full system recovery, including the restore of user data from Data Protector backup sessions. New Wizard page New page EADR is now default New object selection method Restore defaults Save settings Image creation New object selection method Select recovery objects by backup session Simplify image creation Create image from object copies EADR is now the default method New wizard page Enable selection of recovery objects by backup session (+IDB for CM) Backup sessions may not include all volumes (only system critical) RAW/FS object selection option Volume list contains volumes that are part of the selected host backup session New recovery settings page Contains all recovery settings Use Restore Defaults Settings buttons to restore default settings Use Save button to save settings and return to main page New options Initialize disks manually Restore storage settings 6

7 7. Identify and prioritize backup jobs for critical workloads HP Data Protector introduces a new Advance Scheduler that includes flexible, more granular options to create a backup policy. The new advanced scheduler also offers more granular options to schedule your backup jobs such as every minute, hour, day, week, and month, and there are special options for last day of the month or the year. In addition to that, the Advance Scheduler allows you to assign priority to your backup jobs. Workloads can be identified and prioritized based on their RPO/RTO requirements to ensure that your most critical datasets are backed up first. This advance option is highly beneficial in resource constrained environments to ensure the protection of mission-critical applications over less important datasets. These priority settings are also useful during the events when a backup job has to be suspended to accommodate other critical operations that require full computing resources. However, once critical operations are completed, priority settings help ensure that systems are backed up urgently rather than being stuck in the backup queue. 8. Reduce your cost and backup software footprint with an advanced, agile, and highly scalable architecture HP Data Protector takes the scalability and performance of backup and recovery to a completely new level by introducing enhanced, high-performing backup capabilities via a single Data Protector instance capable of scaling to thousands of clients, one trillion filenames, and 100,000 sessions per day. Leveraging a standard off-the-shelf relational database as a new internal database, this newly designed architecture delivers up to 96% footprint reduction in your DP infrastructure and 140 TB/HR1 of throughput in a single session, providing significant cost reduction, scalability, and performance improvements. Data Protector also simplifies operations by allowing several internal maintenance tasks to occur at the same time as backup and restore operations and provides GUI enhancements to manage larger data sets. 7

8 9. Take advantage of modernization expertise and packaged services offering from HP Services If you aren t sure where to begin with your Data Protector 9.0 modernization effort, our extensive global team of subject matter experts can help you get started. The HP Services Data Protection team has packaged experience and best practices from thousands of Data Protector modernizations to develop a methodology that will quickly and effectively get your Adaptive Backup system modernized, up and running, and with minimal disruption to operations. Our experts have implemented solutions across multiple industries and are versed across the entire Adaptive Backup and Recovery suite, so you benefit from our depth of experience and proven track record. HP Services helps you to quickly and efficiently get your infrastructure and software upgraded and running at peak performance. All work is performed by HP Certified Experts that are knowledgeable in a wide range of HP and multivendor environments and in using industry best practices. At the end of the engagement, we provide a detailed knowledge transfer to enable ongoing maintenance so that your staff can be deployed on other projects during the upgrade process. By leveraging our experts, you can be assured that your upgrade will be a smooth transition and that you are getting the best ROI from your Data Protector investment. About HP Autonomy HP Autonomy is a global leader in software that processes unstructured human information, including social media, , video, audio, text and web pages. Using HP Autonomy s information management and analytics technologies, organizations can extract meaning in real time from data in virtually any format or language, including structured data. A range of purpose-built market offerings helps organizations drive greater value through information analytics, unified information access, archiving, ediscovery, enterprise content management, data protection and marketing optimization. Additional information is available at autonomy.com. Sign up for updates hp.com/go/getupdated Share with colleagues Copyright 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein _RL_BR_HP_DataProtector9_9Reasons