Managing Data Protection for a Better Night’s Sleep

The infrastructure used to store and access data is rapidly changing, evidenced by the trend of storage moving to the cloud and the move to a more software defined world. This development has also brought about a change to the traditional ways of protecting data.

Backup of bits and bytes to tape is being replaced by backup of unique bits and bytes to disk through the use of innovative deduplication technology, such as Data Domain. To accelerate access to data in the event of the primary source becoming unavailable, storage arrays are being replicated to remote sites to increase application availability and resiliency in a 24 x 7 on-demand world.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Gareth Eagar takes a deeper look at data protection trends and best practices and examines how current tools, such as EMC Data Protection Advisor, help IT staff sleep easier. Topics include:

• The importance of monitoring data protection

• How to monitor and track data protection results

• Getting to the root of the problem

• Being proactive – Real-time alerting on the things that matter now

• Paying for it all – Chargeback models for data protection services

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