HOPKINTON, Mass., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced new replication support in its EMC Data Protection Advisor software. Now, users can centrally monitor all major backup applications along with industry-leading replication technologies in both physical and virtual environments. With this new expansion, customers have a single, unified solution that monitors, analyzes, and reports across backup, replication, and NAS infrastructure, leading to improved compliance and reduced risk for data exposure while increasing operational efficiency and lowering costs.
Highlights/Key Facts:
-- Organizations of all sizes invest heavily in a range of data protection
technologies to enable recovery under various failure and disaster
scenarios. However, there is little visibility into these disparate
environments to ensure that the data protection solutions are working to
meet the appropriate organizational recovery objectives.
-- EMC Data Protection Advisor automates the collection of data from
applications, hosts and arrays and constantly monitors for exposures and
alerts on gaps that could lead to missed service level agreements (SLAs)
and data protection objectives. Originally focused on backup
environments, the latest version of EMC's data protection management
solution expands its monitoring, analysis and reporting capabilities to
include replication software, providing a single pane for unified data
protection management across backup and replication.
-- New EMC Symmetrix® and EMC CLARiiON® Replication Support: Data
Protection Advisor now provides data protection management support for
replication software on Symmetrix and CLARiiON storage arrays. It
creates a unified graphical map of application clients, arrays, devices
and replicas that identifies what is working and where replication gaps
exist. Easy to use wizards discover the application structure and all
the associated storage, devices and replicas. Through automated data
gathering and analysis, Data Protection Advisor will capture changes in
the recoverability from any replicas. This powerful support allows for
new levels of insight leading to improved service level compliance and
recoverability of business critical data.
-- New Support for EMC RecoverPoint Network-Based Replication: Customers
can now leverage Data Protection Advisor to simplify RecoverPoint
monitoring and service level compliance. With this new support,
customers gain increased insight into replication configuration and
performance, ensuring service agreements recovery objectives are being
met.
-- New Capabilities to Accelerate move to Private Cloud IT: Data
Protection Advisor provides enhanced support for VMware with vCenter
Server integration, providing detailed backup monitoring, alerting and
reporting for individual virtual machines and ESX servers. New enhanced
chargeback capabilities for backup -- and new chargeback support for
RecoverPoint -- makes it easier for enterprises to deliver private cloud
services by enabling efficient, accurate reporting of resource usage --
an important step for building private cloud infrastructures.
-- Unified Deduplication Reporting with expanded EMC Data Domain® Support:
New Data Domain deduplication storage system support includes expanded
reporting for system configuration, power, temperature and fan
components. Plus the solution now reports and analyzes deduplication
ratios, providing a unified view of deduplication ratios across EMC Data
Domain, EMC Avamar® and EMC NetWorker® backup solutions.
-- Expanded Support for EMC Celerra® Unified Storage: Data Protection
Advisor now delivers graphical mapping of Celerra Replicator software
relationships. New monitoring, alerting and reporting on CPU, memory,
performance and capacity of Celerra, helping customers ensure
performance and maintain high availability requirements.
Customer Quote:
-- Mark Butts, Storage and Data Protection Tower Lead for Nielsen Company,
said, "As a current user of EMC Data Protection Advisor, the solution
has allowed our IT department to gain the visibility of our backup
infrastructure and fix issues before they become large problems or
failures. With Data Protection Advisor, we now have a 97% success rate
of our backups, which was considerably lower prior to us deploying the
solution. Given we manage more than 8 petabytes of information across
two data centers, that was huge for us. We're very excited about the
new version of the software as we can view and monitor our backup and
replication processes under one pane of glass. Now, we'll be able to
understand status, compatibility and recoverability of both our backup
and EMC Symmetrix and EMC CLARiiON replication, helping our organization
drive the highest levels of efficiency and avoid unnecessary costs."
Industry Analyst Quote:
-- Steve Scully, Research Manager at IDC, said, "For years, IT
organizations have grappled with how to appropriately manage the various
aspects of their data protection environments. With the addition of
support for replication technologies in the latest release of EMC Data
Protection Advisor, EMC takes a significant step in the evolution of
data protection management technologies. Customers now have an easy way
to automate the process of analyzing application recoverability across
multiple data protection technologies, reduce risk of recovery failure,
and improve service level attainment."
Executive Quote:
-- Rich Napolitano, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the EMC
Unified Storage Division, said, "EMC's advancement in unifying backup
and replication analysis in its EMC Data Protection Advisor solution
continues to demonstrate our leadership position in data protection
management. Unlike other solutions and approaches that only provide a
glimpse of ensuring disaster recovery processes work as designed, Data
Protection Advisor provides customers with the most complete data
protection management solution available in the market today. With the
addition of replication analysis and visualization capabilities in our
software, we deliver customers the needed automation to simplify daily
operations, improve data protection performance and ensure that the most
critical information is recoverable within appropriate time objectives."
Availability:
-- EMC Data Protection Advisor, version 5.5, is available immediately from
EMC and its Velocity2 and authorized partners.
Supporting Resources:
-- Learn more about EMC Data Protection Advisor:
www.emc.com/products/detail/software/data-protection-advisor.htm
-- Data Sheet: EMC Data Protection Advisor for Replication
http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h6818-dpa-replication-ds.pdf
-- Whitepaper: Increasing Recoverability of Critical Data with EMC Data
Protection Advisor and Replication Analysis
www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h6659-increasing-recoverability-data-protection-advisor-wp.pdf
-- Demo: EMC Data Protection Advisor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeJ4RkvU6M
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC, Avamar, Celerra, CLARiiON, Data Domain, NetWorker and Symmetrix are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation. VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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