 "EMC Introduces New Features In Data Protection Software Portfolio")
EMC Corporation has announced new versions of the solutions in its data protection software portfolio. These new updates are part of integrated solutions that meet specific data protection requirements for analysis and reporting, backup for Microsoft and VMware virtual environments, data de-duplication and replication, helping customers slow data growth, reduce capacity and lower total cost of operations.
EMC Data Protection Advisor
Formerly EMC Backup Advisor, the re-branded EMC Data Protection Advisor (v5.0) software enables backup reporting, alerting, monitoring, and analysis of heterogeneous storage infrastructures.
Customers can now consolidate the collection, analysis and presentation of information across data protection environments, including backup components, domains and locations, allowing them to make the right decisions, at the right cost - faster.
The software now includes support of EMC Celerra IP storage systems. The solution continues to update its support with the latest software versions of EMC NetWorker, EMC Avamar, Symantec PureDisk, Symantec BackupExec and storage platforms from Data Domain.
EMC NetWorker
EMC NetWorker (v7.5) continues to improve the centralised management of various backup functions, including virtual environments from VMware and Microsoft, providing a single solution for comprehensive protection.
With new integration with VMware Virtual Centre and new support of VMware VMotion and Distributed Resource Scheduler, NetWorker customers improve control while reducing risk and effort of VMware backups. In addition, the new NetWorker Module for Microsoft Applications provides backup support for Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments.
Finally, the latest version of EMC NetWorker has expanded its centralised management for current EMC storage solutions including EMCRecoverPoint Continuous Remote Replication, EMC Symmetrix TimeFinder and EMC HomeBase.
EMC Avamar
The latest EMC Avamar (v4.1) backup software offers enhanced reporting capabilities that help customers manage and monitor their backup infrastructures. New graphical server capacity trending and capacity extrapolation reports and advanced ‘health check’ and ’email home’ alerts notify administrators of ‘capacity-full’ and other conditions that help mitigate risk.
In addition, Avamar now offers 256-bit AES encryption, vulnerability scanning, and certificate-based authentication to assure that backup data is secure whether at rest or in transit across the network.
Finally, Avamar expands reliability features with power loss management and server auto-restart functionality to assure the smooth continued operation of the backup process.
EMC RecoverPoint
The new capabilities of EMC RecoverPoint (v3.1) replication software lower user costs and reduce risk by enabling advanced replication configurations, non-disruptive upgrades, new support for Microsoft cluster server and EMC CLARiiON network storage systems.
RecoverPoint’s new ‘stretched continuous data protection (CDP)’ capability adds synchronous data replication from the production site to a secondary site at a distance up to 30 kilometers away (more than 18 miles), enabling two-site limited-distance data protection with zero data loss, as well as three-site cascaded configurations by adding a continuous remote replication (CRR) link.
Mark Sorenson, EMC’s senior vice president of Storage Software, said, “Backup is one of the biggest challenges that our customers face and we work every day to help make backups easier to manage, non-disruptive, faster and cost-effective. The new features introduced today represent the state-of-the-art in data protection technology. EMC aims to help customers world over protect their data with the latest solutions.”