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1 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE 2011 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE The Insider s Guide to Evaluating Oracle Backup Software Solutions By Will Boudreau, Carl Rubin and Jerome Wendt DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved.

2 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 4 Executive Summary 6 How to Use this Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide 6 Disclosures 7 The Seven-Step Process Used to Score and Rank the Oracle Backup Software Solutions 7 Observations and Recommendations Regarding Each Backup Software Ranking 9 Recommended and/or Best-in-Class 9 Excellent 9 Good 10 Basic 11 Oracle Backup Software Solutions Scores and Rankings 12 Overall 13 Oracle Integration 14 Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer's Guide Data Sheets 15 Arkeia Network Backup 9 16 Asigra Cloud Backup 17 Atempo Time Navigator 4.2 SP6 Oracle Module 18 CA ARCserve r15 19 Commvault Simpana 9 20 EMC Avamar EMC Networker 7.6 SP2 22 HP Data Protector Innovation FDR/UPSTREAM client and UPSTREAM Reservoir client v NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup 25 Quest Software NetVault Backup Quest Software LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle Product Rankings Dashboard Appendix A Definitions, Explanations and Terminology B Oracle Backup Software Provider Contact Information C Author Contact Information 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. i

3 Introduction This DCIG 2011 Oracle Backup Software Solution Buyer s Guide is the latest in the ongoing series of Buyer s Guides that DCIG began producing in Unlike other Buyer s Guides that only look at factors that influence buying decisions of a particular and/or a limited number of products, DCIG Buyer s Guides take a comprehensive look at products in a particular market segment. DCIG then weights and scores the products in that space and publishes the results without bias. Like every other Buyer s Guide that DCIG has produced, the Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide was produced without any vendor sponsorship. Vendors of the products covered in this Buyer s Guide are only given the opportunity to license and market the final results once DCIG s research is complete. This particular Buyer s Guide is collaboration between Jerome Wendt of DCIG, LLC, (DCIG) and Carl Rubin and Will Boudreau of Monument Data Solutions LLC (Monument). Our intent in producing this Buyer s Guide is to provide a resource for vendors, end-users, and others that establish the landscape for Oracle Backup Software Solutions and the important features and functions that the vendors of this technology are offering. This Buyer s Guide is intended as a complement to the evaluation and buying process that companies must normally undertake themselves. It provides a comprehensive handbook to help them shorten the time and reduce the effort needed to evaluate Oracle Backup Software Solutions. One of the goals of this and every DCIG Buyer s Guide is to accelerate the evaluation process for the end-user. Jerome s extensive experience and research into a variety of data storage and data protection technologies coupled with Carl and Will s years of experience managing and supporting Oracle databases and backups collectively convinced us that there was a dearth of information about which backup solutions were best suited to backup and recover Oracle databases. As such, it was determined that a DCIG Buyer s Guide that identified and positioned the landscape would be of tremendous value to vendors, end-users, and others. Using it they could quickly and easily approach this space and, with much less upfront research, discovery, and analysis, more confidently arrive at an insightful, informed conclusion as to how to best proceed. Putting together this Oracle Backup Software Solution Buyer s Guide validated our belief that the discovery and evaluation of products in this space is both arduous and resource-intensive. In a segment as complex as backing up Oracle databases, just identifying the vendors that offer specialized products in this space can be challenging. Short-listing which features matter in each product and weighting each one is even more difficult, especially for companies and/or individuals that are new to backing up Oracle databases. They many times are not aware of the breadth of products and features in this space and may not have the time to do the initial research and then an exhaustive evaluation of available solutions. Our Methodology In preparing this Buyer s Guide, DCIG and Monument identified over 30 vendors who were potentially candidates for inclusion and sent them surveys to complete. However what we found was that a number of vendors that organizations may normally associate with Oracle backup (IBM, Symantec and others) declined to complete the survey associated with this particular Buyer s Guide DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 1

4 Introduction continued The reason they most often cited for not participating is that their backup software does not offer the advanced integration to backup Oracle databases that the majority of the products found in this Buyer s Guide provide. Other backup software products that are specifically targeted at virtual backup also declined to participate because Oracle does not certify the backup of Oracle databases on virtual server platforms other than the one Oracle resells. Responses such as these further helped to exemplify why a Buyer s Guide like this one was needed. The vendors that were included in this Buyer s Guide completed a questionnaire that contained more than 60 yes/no and multiple choice questions. The survey included questions in the areas of Database Technology, Database Versions, Backup, Restore, Oracle RMAN, and Support. Once DCIG received back the completed surveys, DCIG and Monument tabulated and assembled all of the responses. As part of our process, we also spoke to end-users to get a sense of what their specific needs were in these various areas as well as how they prioritized and weighted specific features. Monument then took the lead in assessing the vendors capabilities indicated in the questionnaire using vendor submitted information as well as information available in the public domain. Vendors capabilities were then evaluated by applying weighting based on our conversations with end-users as well as our own expertise and understanding of where the Oracle backup and recovery market is headed. After we compiled all of the scores, we then assessed what constituted a Best-in-Class and/or Recommended solution, an Excellent solution, a Good solution, and which solutions provided more Basic functionality. Each vendor in this Buyer s Guide has something to offer in the right scenario and application. Best-in-Class, Recommended, Excellent, Good, and Basic are a measure of how much functionality and capability each solution has relative to the overall landscape not whether the solution is the right and appropriate fit for any particular end-user s needs. This Buyer s Guide will therefore NOT tell you which solution is necessarily best for your environment. Only YOU can make that decision. Rather, it removes the heavy lifting that you would otherwise have to do to understand the vendor landscape and the features and functions to focus on. This Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide: Lists each individual Oracle Backup Software Solution Lists different Oracle backup software features Weights these features according to what end users consider most important Scores and ranks the features on each product based upon the criteria that matters most to users Provides an objective, third-party evaluation of Oracle backup software from an end-user s viewpoint 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 2

5 Introduction continued Provides data sheets for 12 Oracle Backup Software Solutions to enable quick comparisons of the features that are supported or not supported by each backup software Further aligns the Oracle Backup Software Solutions by functionality to help you determine which vendors fit best with specific functionality needs Provides contact information for each vendor to accelerate your ability to contact the vendors. Provides recommendations on how to best use this Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide The end result is that this Buyer s Guide gives users the opportunity to do at-a-glance comparisons between different Oracle Backup Software Solutions. Using these results, organizations can quickly come up with a short list of products that meet their specific needs and either go directly to a product evaluation with select products or even opt to immediately get competitive bids on these products. Note that this Buyer s Guide is not intended to be a substitute for bringing individual products into your environment and testing them in-house with your applications. That function should still be done since these products may behave differently under different application workloads and in different environments. However what this Buyer s Guide will do is help you get to that buying decision and/or testing stage more quickly. We hope this Buyer s Guide meets this intended purpose in your environment. Carl, Will and Jerome 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 3

6 Executive Summary As more organizations have chosen Oracle databases, the need for an efficient, effective, and reliable backup solution is critical as this marketplace is changing in two ways. First, larger organizations are increasing the number and size of instances; and, second, smaller organizations with limited IT staff are now purchasing Oracle databases. Another big change is the number of organizations that have instituted and/or are looking to institute failover and disaster recovery for their business critical systems is on the rise. As the cost of hardware continues to decline and backup software continues to offer more options to do advanced forms of recovery, it is becoming both more affordable and practical for any size business to achieve this objective. Oracle databases and the applications that rely upon these databases are at the top of the list for most organizations in terms of putting in place solutions that provide failover and recovery. These are most often business critical applications that have the least amount of tolerance for downtime and the highest demand for fast, reliable recoveries. Of course, the key to executing on these ideals is to first successfully backup your Oracle databases and then have a methodology in place to either reload this Oracle database in its existing location or another site to continue business operations. The difficulty then becomes choosing the right solution to deliver on these tasks. In addition to the time it takes to compare and review different products, each organization has its own particular backup and recovery requirements that it often needs to first define and understand before it can select the correct solution and then properly install so they can backup and recover a single specific Oracle database instance or multiple types of Oracle instances. The challenge associated with protecting Oracle databases has been growing and becoming especially acute in the mid-market. Monument has found in its practice a growing number of smaller firms are utilizing Oracle databases as a result of their purchases of business applications that run on Oracle databases beneath the covers. So they are not choosing Oracle per se. Instead they now need to protect Oracle databases as a result of bringing a specific business application in house. This puts the onus on IT department to protect Oracle databases as part of their other duties. Both DCIG and Monument have for some time been watching these trends and hearing from end-users that some guidance is needed on the Oracle Backup Software landscape. In fact, since DCIG announced on its website in the form of a blog entry that it was producing a Buyer s Guide on Oracle Backup Software Solutions, it has become one of the most viewed entries on DCIG s website. This combination of factors has resulted in the decision to produce this initial Buyer s Guide on Oracle Backup Software Solutions. This Buyer s Guide is the result of a multi-month effort talking to multiple vendors about their solutions and then developing a survey with over 60 different yes/no and multiple choice questions that covered a broad range of features and functionality as it relates to Oracle backup DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 4

7 Executive Summary continued The goal of this Buyer s Guide is to: Identify the main features and functions of Oracle Backup Software Solutions Provide a ranking of the vendors across two major categories Present insight to help end-users perform thorough evaluations. Impart expertise by weighting the questions to help organizations wade through the features and functions to understand which are more important than others This Buyer s Guide cannot tell you the right solution for your environment. Rather this Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide will help you focus your attention more quickly in the right areas, identify important features to evaluate, ask the right questions, accelerate your evaluation, strategy, and decision-making, and then provide you with a reference and audit trail to justify your conclusions DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 5

8 How to Use this Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide This Buyer s Guide should help you initiate an evaluation of backup software for your Oracle databases and create a short list of vendors to consider. Best-in-Class and/or Recommended, Excellent, Good, and Basic are a measure of how much functionality and capability each solution has relative to the overall landscape not whether the solution is the right and appropriate fit for any particular s end-user s needs. This Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide will therefore not tell you which solutions to eliminate. Instead the intent of this Buyer s Guide is to take the place of the heavy lifting that organizations normally need to do to understand the vendor landscape and the features and functions that each Oracle backup software solution has to offer. This Buyer s Guide ranks the products from more complete functionality to lesser amounts of functionality. This does not therefore tell you which functionality, which features, or what amount of functionality is the best fit for your environment. You should instead use this Buyer s Guide as a handbook in evaluating Oracle Backup Software Solutions to understand: Who the players are What features and functions are available The specific features and functions available on each product Which specific features and functions to focus on. This Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide should help you in the following five ways: 1. Accelerate your ability to assess the Oracle database backup software market place. 2. More quickly develop a short-list of backup software vendors that are a good fit for your environment. 3. Use the Oracle Backup Software Solution Buyer s Guide as a complement and audit trail in your evaluation process. DCIG and Monument have already gone through a rigorous process of first scoring the products and then ranking them as Best-in-Class, Recommended, Excellent, Good and Basic. This provides a solid starting point when doing a comparative analysis of the different features and functions that each product provides as this Buyer s Guide includes standardized data sheets for each Oracle Backup Software Solution. Because each Oracle Backup Software Solution looks different and contains different features and functions, it is difficult to make side-by-side comparisons. This Buyer s Guide tackles this problem by creating a standard, easy to read reference data sheet for every Oracle Backup Software Solution. In this way, product data sheets for individual products can be printed out, laid down side by side and then the features on them quickly compared. 4. This Buyer s Guide normalizes complex Oracle Database backup terminology. Every industry has a proclivity to adopt acronyms and jargon that is specific to it and the Oracle database market is no different in that it not only uses unfamiliar terms but sometimes refers to the same technology in different ways which complicates any attempts to do an objective evaluation of a technology. This Buyer s Guide attempts to explain and normalize the jargon specific to Oracle backup while seeking to enhance the quality and productivity of the discussions around the technology. 5. Provides a concise summary of each vendor s strengths and weaknesses around the major categories of this report. Disclosures The general trend in the U.S. over the last few years has been, for better or for worse, for both large and boutique analyst firms to receive some or all of their revenue from software providers. DCIG is no different in this respect in that DCIG receives payment for the different services it performs for storage providers. The sponsored services that DCIG provides include blogging, case studies, product reviews, executive white papers, special reports and full-length white papers. For more information on DCIG, visit DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 6

9 In the interest of being fully transparent, a number of the storage providers included in this Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyer s Guide are or have been DCIG clients. No vendors, however, whether clients or not, have been afforded preferential treatment in this Buyer s Guide. The client relationship means that we have more complete and better knowledge of a specific vendor s products and solutions, and that DCIG would consider their Oracle Backup Software Solution for inclusion in this Buyer s Guide. In that vein, there are a number of important facts to keep in mind when considering the information contained in this Oracle Backup Software Solutions Buyers Guide and its merit. No storage provider paid DCIG or Monument any fee(s) to develop this Buyer s Guide. Neither DCIG nor Monument provided any guarantee to a Oracle Backup Software vendor that their solution would be included in this Buyer s Guide. Neither DCIG nor Monument provided any guarantee or assurance to any vendor about how their solution might be scored in this Buyer s Guide. All research was based upon information provided directly by the vendor, research and analysis by DCIG and Monument, and other publicly available information. Monument is an independent software consultancy, working in partnership with DCIG, with no financial or contractual relationship to any of the vendors covered in this Buyer s Guide. For more information on Monument, visit The Seven-Step Process Used to Score and Rank Oracle Backup Software To score and rank each Oracle Backup Software Solution, DCIG and Monument went through a seven step process to come to the most objective conclusion possible. 1. DCIG and Monument identified the pertinent features available in backup software solutions for the backup and recovery of Oracle databases. 2. DCIG and Monument assessed which features could and should be part of a questionnaire to which vendors would respond. One distinction between a Request for Proposal (RFP) and the Oracle Backup Software Solutions questionnaire is that we wanted to identify specific differences that are necessary versus those that are nice to have. These differences would identify features that would influence a buyer s decision. 3. A questionnaire was sent to each vendor asking about its Oracle database support for specific backup software features and functions. 4. Each question was assigned a weighting based on our conversations with end-users as well as our own experience and understanding of industry trends. 5. Upon compilation of the vendors capabilities against each item in the questionnaire, we looked at each and every vendor capability and scored their capabilities. 6. Scores for each question were then normalized, and summed up as a Total Score. 7. The features were broken down into two main categories, General Oracle Backup and Oracle Integration, with the scores of each shown on each product s data sheets. The Total Score on each data sheet is the sum of the scores of the two categories displayed on each data sheet. DCIG Observations and Recommendations Regarding Each Backup Software Ranking Observations The rankings were based upon what key features and functions that would be needed the most by users of these products. For example, we felt that the ability to perform a Bare Metal Restore was critical and we gave this particular feature a high rating. A Bare Metal Restore is the capability to restore a system on a new server if the original server has completely failed and is usually a basic tenet of a reliable Disaster Recovery plan. Conversely, support for legacy Oracle databases that are no longer formally supported by Oracle (identified as 7.x, 8.0.x, 8i, and 9i on the data sheets) we rated as less important. So while the product s support of these legacy databases is displayed on the data sheets, we did not assign weightings for these features since most organizations are 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 7

10 not using unsupported versions of Oracle. However, having them listed in the data sheets will help those that still do have these requirements and may need this information when comparing the products from different vendors. Overall, we determined the following features were deserving of higher rankings and were scored and weighted accordingly: Oracle RMAN and Data Guard Oracle s RMAN is becoming a standard for backing up Oracle Databases. However, a majority of organizations still do not use RMAN. Oracle is pushing the marketplace to utilize this process and we feel in the future it may be used more often. A large number of questions on this survey are related to RMAN but if RMAN is not a requirement for your organization, it should be recognized and duly noted in your evaluation process of an Oracle backup software solution. Other chief RMAN features are the capability to: Use the RMAN VALIDATE command without scripting. This is important since this does not require a read of the backup to ensure the backup is running properly. Natively make use of RMAN backup and recovery commands (no scripting required) Determine the appropriate type of recovery by performing such tasks as checking for data files, control files, archive logs, etc. that are needed to recover a database without using RMAN Oracle s Data Guard product is also becoming more popular for use in maintaining Disaster Recovery (DR) systems. We rated backup software highly which maintained, supported, or generated notifications if Data Guard failures occurs. Once a Data Guard database has been setup and updated with log files from the primary database, it is very difficult to resync the two systems if they get out of sync, so knowing about failures is important. Oracle RAC Oracle s Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a clustered database with a shared cache architecture that delivers highly available database solutions. Oracle RAC usually has a primary and secondary database to provide a higher level of system uptime. If the primary database fails, the secondary database automatically comes online. If you are using Oracle RAC in your environment, it is critical that your Oracle Backup Software Solution is aware of RAC, can detect if there is a node failure and can continue to perform backups after such a failure occurs. Those systems that were aware of Oracle RAC and had features that supported Oracle RAC functionality were given a higher rating than those that did not. Other Oracle Backup Types Other Oracle backup types that we also rated highly were: Secure Backup, which entails some type of encryption. Cold/offline Backup Hot/online Backup Disk Image Backup Backup Media Since the backup media world is changing, we rated the ability to perform all different types of backup media as very important. The types of media that can be used by the backup software are: Cloud storage (public) Disk (NAS or SAN) Tape Virtual Tape Library (VTL) The difference between disk (either NAS or SAN) and a VTL (virtual tape library) is that a VTL looks like a physical tape library from the perspective of the backup software. This ability of backup software to leverage disk in lieu of tape we view as paramount as the industry is rapidly moving away from using tape as the primary backup and restore target and instead using disk in one of its various iterations (Cloud storage, NAS, SAN or VTL.) The role of tape in many organizations is primarily evolving to that of a secondary backup target in the form of disk-todisk-to-tape (D2D2T) or to archive data. Cloud storage is also rapidly coming on the scene as a potential backup target but for now DCIG and Monument recommend that if it is used, it is used primarily in the same way that tape is used in the form of disk-to-disk-to-cloud (D2D2C). The main concern is the internet bandwidth that 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 8

11 is required to do backups and restores to and from the Cloud. So it is only practical for most companies to use Cloud storage as a secondary backup target or for archive similar to how tape is being increasingly used. However, it should be noted that the ability to use a Cloud storage minimizes the issues with moving data off-site and opens up new possibilities for DR purposes which tape by itself does not do. There are different ways to backup an Oracle database. The traditional ways of doing Oracle backups Cold, Hot (Full), and Hot (Incremental) are requirements for most environments since they use a combination of these. Most organizations will schedule a cold backup at least once a month and use the Hot (Full) backups for their daily backups. However, with the size of some databases, the ability to do a Hot (Incremental) is very helpful from a backup window standpoint. Again, all of these features and needs depend of database size, backup windows, organizational needs, and potential for failure. Backup Reporting A new area that backup software vendors have begun to embrace is running audit reports on database backup successes and failures. This eliminates the need for organizations to write programs that monitor these backup software alerts or reading their log files. Observations Best-in-Class and Recommended Rankings This Buyer s Guide measured the rankings by breadth and depth of capability. There are few vendors that have broad and deep enough functionality to be deemed as Recommended or Best-in-Class the product with the top score in each category as defined in this Buyer s Guide as vendors with scores of 70 or higher. DCIG classifies the Recommended Oracle Backup Software Solutions with the top scores. CommVault Simpana and Quest Software NetVault Backup received this honor for their strong breadth of Oracle Backup Support and overall Oracle integration. Quest Software NetVault Backup achieved the Bestin-Class designation in Total Product Score and the Oracle Integration category though the two products by and large ranked fairly consistently across the board. What ended up giving Quest Software NetVault Backup a slight edge was its more advanced Oracle integration with RMAN, Data Guard, and RAC. Excellent Ranking Observations Vendors ranked as Excellent scored from 60 to 69. Two vendors, EMC NetWorker 7.6 and HP Data Protector 6.2, ranked as Excellent overall. The main shortcomings of these two solutions were that they did not score well on the non-rman features. If RMAN is not a requirement for your organization, then these two solutions are very similar to the Recommended solutions as they both handled key requirements for backing up and restoring Oracle databases as well as RAC, Data Guard, and RMAN integration. Good Ranking Observations Vendors ranked as Good scored from 48 to 59 with four vendors, Asigra Cloud Backup, Arkeia Network Backup 9, Atempo Time Navigator 4.2 SP6 and CA ARCserve r15 achieving a ranking of Good. The difference between these vendors and the higher rated vendors is that they have not embraced a number of Oracle centric backup and restores feature with a prime example being that they cannot handle backups in a Data Guard environment which would clearly be important if you use Data Guard. However there are some features on these products worth pointing out. Asigra Cloud Backup has the ability to run audit reports on successful or failed backups which lets the user know about the status of their backups after they are complete. What makes Atempo Time Navigator 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 9

12 noteworthy is that it makes use of the RMAN VALIDATE command whereas other competitive products in this ranking do not. Basic Ranking Observations Vendors ranked as Basic scored under 48. These included EMC Avamar, Innovation FDR/UPSTREAM, NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup and Quest Software LiteSpeed for Oracle. These solutions can backup and restore your Oracle databases and are intended for use in Oracle environments where the requirements are for simpler Oracle backup and recoveries. If you do not need these more advanced Oracle backup features, these products may be suitable for your environment. Further, each vendor is continually enhancing its software with more features so that in the future a product in this ranking may be sufficient for a particular organization s needs DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 10

13 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE SCORES AND RANKINGS The scores and rankings for the Oracle Backup Software Solutions contain the following information: A chart that includes the scores and rankings for all of the products The highest score, lowest score and mean that were used to establish how each Oracle Backup Software Solution was ranked A summary of the primary findings 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 11

14 Overall Scores and Rankings Oracle Backup Software Solutions SCORE RANKING 1 Quest Software NetVault Backup Best-in-Class 2 CommVault Simpana Recommended 3 EMC NetWorker 7.6 SP Excellent 4 HP Data Protector Excellent 5 Asigra Cloud Backup 55.0 Good 6 CA ARCserve r Good 7 Atempo Time Navigator 4.2 SP6 Oracle Module 54.1 Good 8 Arkeia Network Backup Good 9 NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup 44.4 Basic 10 Quest Software LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle Basic 11 Innovation FDR/UPSTREAM 38.1 Basic 12 EMC Avamar Basic Total Number of Oracle Backup Software Solutions 12 Highest Score 76.2 Lowest Score 30.5 Average (Mean) 53.9 Standard Deviation 2.7 Rankings Recommended Excellent Good Basic DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 12

15 Oracle Integration Scores and Rankings Oracle Backup Software Solutions SCORE 1 Quest Software NetVault Backup Best-in-Class 2 CA ARCserve r Recommended 3 CommVault Simpana Excellent 4 Quest Software LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle Excellent 5 Arkeia Network Backup Excellent 6 Atempo Time Navigator 4.2 SP6 Oracle Module 11.1 Good 7 EMC NetWorker 7.6 SP Good 8 HP Data Protector Good 9 Asigra Cloud Backup 8.8 Good 10 EMC Avamar Basic 11 NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup 5.5 Basic 12 Innovation FDR/UPSTREAM 5.4 Basic Total Number of Oracle Backup Software Solutions 12 Highest Score 20.4 Lowest Score 5.4 Average (Mean) 11.8 Standard Deviation 3.3 Rankings Recommended Excellent Good Basic DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 13

16 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DATA SHEETS 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. 14

17 Arkeia Network Backup 9 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 49.2 Total Score 36.4 General Oracle Backup 12.8 Oracle Integration Good Good Excellent General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 15

18 Asigra Cloud Backup ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 55.0 Total Score 46.2 General Oracle Backup 8.8 Oracle Integration Good Excellent Good General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 16

19 Atempo Time Navigator 4.2 SP6 Oracle Module ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 54.1 Total Score 43.0 General Oracle Backup 11.1 Oracle Integration Good Excellent Good General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 17

20 CA ARCserve r 15 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 54.4 Total Score 35.7 General Oracle Backup 18.7 Oracle Integration Good Good Recommended General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 18

21 Commvault Simpana 9 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 73.9 Total Score 57.7 General Oracle Backup 16.2 Oracle Integration Recommended Best-in-Class Excellent General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 19

22 EMC Avamar 6.0 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 30.5 Total Score 24.6 General Oracle Backup 5.9 Oracle Integration Basic Basic Basic General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 20

23 EMC Networker 7.6 SP2 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 67.0 Total Score 56.7 General Oracle Backup 10.3 Oracle Integration Excellent Recommended Good General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 21

24 HP Data Protector 6.2 ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 60.5 Total Score 51.5 General Oracle Backup 9.0 Oracle Integration Excellent Recommended Good General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 22

25 Innovation FDR/UPSTREAM client and UPSTREAM Reservoir client v ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 38.1 Total Score 32.7 General Oracle Backup 5.4 Oracle Integration Basic Good Basic General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 23

26 NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 44.4 Total Score 38.9 General Oracle Backup 5.5 Oracle Integration Basic Good Basic General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 24

27 Quest Software NetVault Backup ORACLE BACKUP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS BUYER S GUIDE DCIG Scores and Rankings 76.2 Total Score 55.8 General Oracle Backup 20.4 Oracle Integration Best-in-Class Recommended Best-in-Class General Oracle Backup ORACLE INTEGRATION ORACLE RAC ORACLE CLUSTERWARE ORACLE DATA GUARD ORACLE GOLDENGATE ORACLE STREAMS ORACLE SECURE BACKUP FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGIES DBVERIFY EXPORT IMPORT DATA PUMP FAST RECOVERY AREA ORACLE VM ORACLE CLOUD COMPUTING AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT (ASM) CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSPORTABLE TABLESPACE LEGACY DATABASE SUPPORT 7.X.X 8.0.X 8i 9i NATIVE ORACLE BACKUP METHODS ORACLE COLD (Full) (Incremental) PARTIAL DATABASE BACKUPS (RMAN supported) (non-rman supported) RMAN PROXY COPY Backup Software Functionality BACKUP SOFTWARE FEATURES BLOCK CHANGE COLD/OFFLINE HOT/ONLINE DISK IMAGE FULL INCREMENTAL CUMULATIVE INCREMENTAL DIFFERENTIAL INCREMENTAL LAN-FREE RAW PARTITION SERVERLESS DEDUPLICATION REPLICATION SNAPSHOTS CLONING BARE METAL RESTORE DETECT ORACLE RAC NODE FAILURES AND STILL BACKUP DATABASE BACKUP IN DATA GUARD ENVIRONMENT ALERT CONFIGURATION ( and/or SNMP) RMAN ORACLE FLASHBACK RECOVERY ORACLE FAST RECOVERY AUDIT REPORTS DIFFERENT ORACLE DBA SECURITY ROLES ENCRYPTION OPTIONS RMAN ENCRYPTION BACKUP SOFTWARE ENCRYPTION RMAN INTEGRATION APIS CLI COMMAND FILES DBMS_PIPE EXTERNAL SCRIPTS GUI SCRIPT EDITOR/GENERATOR MEDIA TYPES DISK TAPE VTL CLOUD Supported Unsupported 2011 DCIG, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. The information, product recommendations and opinions made by DCIG, LLC are based upon public information and from sources that DCIG, LLC believes to be accurate and reliable. 25