SEPATON Sees SMB Disaster Recovery Falling Short For Enterprises
In today's data-driven economy, a few hours of downtime can cost a company tens of thousands of dollars. Enterprises face the challenge of protecting enormous volumes of data from disasters, complying with complex regulations, controlling rapid data growth, and managing geographically dispersed data centers.
"Small and medium sized companies can meet these challenges simply by copying data to a physical tape and shipping the tapes to an off-site storage facility," said Jay Kramer, vice president of worldwide marketing, SEPATON, Inc. "They can also replicate their smaller data volumes over their network to a remote DR site with a disk-based backup system. But for large enterprises, these disaster recovery solutions lack the performance, capacity, and automation necessary to meet the needs of large data-intensive organizations."
A variety of issues is driving exponential data growth, including mergers and acquisitions, increasing dependence on large ERP and CRM systems, and the worldwide explosion of email usage. In discussions with end users from large, data intensive organizations, SEPATON has found that the overwhelming majority are grappling with developing strategies and deploying technologies designed to address their particular sophisticated requirements.
Jay Kramer recommends that large enterprises consider the following seven factors when evaluating technologies for disaster recovery protection:
- Plan for enterprise-class performance and capacity requirements - Evaluate data deduplication solutions that can handle backup volumes in the tens of petabytes or more in a single system. These solutions backup and deduplicate data concurrently and load balance backup and deduplicate these operations across multiple processing nodes.
- Ensure you can meet recovery time objectives - Fast backups is only half the challenge. Be wary of solutions that only restore data through the same port that was used to back up the data; or technologies that perform deduplication in a way that requires significant processing time to rebuild the data before it is restored.
- Monitor changing requirements - Choose a VTL system that lets IT analyze capacity growth and performance efficiency over time to give an accurate prediction of future requirements.
- Pay as you grow - Control capital expense with a pay-as-you-grow modularly scalable system that allows for disk shelves to be added for more capacity or processing nodes for more performance only when needed.
- Aim to reduce OpEx for IT admins - Combine automation and management reporting tools with data protection policy to enhance operational productivity and eliminate human error.
- Know your bandwith requirements - Consider a solution that cuts the bandwidth requirements of a replicated backup by as much as 97 percent. These solutions use deduplication technology to replicate only new data and pointers to existing data in full backups.
- Test early and often - A DR program must include a complete test of systems, procedures, and processes in as realistic a manner as possible.
About SEPATON, Inc.
SEPATON is the only disk-based data protection company with a scale-out backup and recovery system built to achieve the performance and capacity requirements of the most data intensive organizations. Built on our patented scale-out architecture, SEPATON products enable data-intensive enterprises to back up, deduplicate, replicate, and restore petabytes of data at wire speed without disruption to their existing infrastructure. As a result, these products provide the most return on their investment in backup technology. For more information, visit http://www.sepaton.com.
SOURCE: SEPATON, Inc.