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EMC Avamar
Never back up the same data twice
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Agenda
Today’s data protection reality
The usual answers
Avamar overview– How it works– Flexible deployment
Avamar solves customer challenges
Summary
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Today’s Data Protection Reality
Data growth is immense
Companies want more data protected
Time required for backup is expanding
Backup hampered by tape’s unreliability and poor performance
Virtual machines pose unique backup challenges
Increasing volume of data at remote offices
More data stored locally on desktops and laptops
Pressure to meet the changing needs of the business
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The Usual Answers
Backup to tape, or stage to disk, and then archive to tape
Manually move tapes offsite for disaster recovery
Traditional backup and recovery
Inefficient and slow, ~200% of primary data moved across the network weekly
Tedious, multi-step recovery process
Risks the loss or theft of unencrypted tapes in transit
Data is difficult to recover and leverage
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Avamar Overview
Backup and recovery software with integrated global, source data deduplication
Reduces the size of backup data at the source—before it is transferred across the network
Delivers fast, daily full backups using existing infrastructure
Reduces network bandwidth for backup by up to 500 times
Deduplicates across sites and servers, reducing total backup disk storage by up to 50 times
Cost-effectively stores daily full backups on disk—reducing or eliminating the need for tape
Ideal for protecting VMware environments, remote offices, LAN/NAS servers, and desktop/laptop systems
Avamar Software
Avamar Data Store
Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware
Avamar server deployed as a virtual appliance
Agent-only or deployed on qualified, industry- standard servers
Fully integrated software/hardware offering
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Avamar: How it WorksGlobal, sub-file data deduplication
At the source—Deduplication before data is transported across the network
At the target—Assures coordinated deduplication across sites, servers, and over time
Granular—Small, variable-length sub-file segments guarantee most effective deduplication
Send and store each atom only once
Avamar backup repository
Break data into atom (sub-file, variable-length segments of data)
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Remote Site 2 Modified Instance
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EMC Avamar
Never Backup the Same Data Twice
DataCenter
Only unique data segments are backed up
First Instance
New data segment identified and backed up
Avamar: How it WorksSimple example of global, sub-file deduplication
Remote Site 1 Duplicate Instance
Data already backed up, so only unique IDs stored (20 byte pointers)
Deduplication server (stored backup data)
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Avamar: Real-World ResultsAvamar daily full backups versus traditional daily full backups
Data TypeAmount of Primary Data Backed Up
Amount of Data Moved Daily
Windows file systems 3,573 GB 6.1 GB
Mix of Windows, Linux, and UNIX file systems 5,097 GB 11.7 GB
Engineering files on NAS (NDMP backups) 3,265 GB 24.2 GB
Mix of 20% databases, 80% file systems (Windows and UNIX)
9,583 GB 80.0 GB
Mix of Linux file systems and databases 7,831 GB 104.2 GB
Source: EMC
While results will vary by data type and mix, Avamar can dramatically improve backup performance and efficiency
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Avamar’s Innovative Architecture
Redundant Array of Independent Nodes (RAIN) architecture
– Each server node includes CPU, memory, and internal disk storage
– Provides high availability and fault tolerance across nodes
Grid architecture for online scalability and performance
Daily Avamar server integrity checks
Data recoverability verified daily
RAID protection from disk failures
Available for Avamar software and Avamar Data Store
U.S. Patent No. 6,826,711Avamar Server
Verified checkpoint
Utility andspare node
Parity across storage nodes
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Avamar’s Centralized Management
Centralized management of multiple Avamar systems
Intuitive, web-based interface
At-a-glance dashboards
Capacity reporting and alerting
Facilitates “set and forget” deployment in smaller enterprises
Improves efficiencies and streamlines management in remote/branch offices
Specialized management interface for desktop/laptop clients
Policy-based, multi-site management over existing network bandwidth
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Avamar Server Deployment Options
Avamar Software Avamar Data Store Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware
Fully integrated hardware/software solution with single point of support
Single-node Avamar server running as a virtual machine
(virtual appliance)
Software for industry-standard servers
AvamarVM
ResourcePool
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
AvamarVM
AvamarVM
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Avamar’s Flexible Deployment
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Avamar Data Store
Complete EMC backup, recovery, and disaster recovery offering
– Avamar backup and recovery software with integrated source/global data deduplication
– EMC-certified hardware built to order—fully configured and delivered
Built-in high availability– Avamar RAIN technology– Spare node, RAID– Redundant power distribution– Redundant switches, NICs for automatic failover on user’s network
Simplifies– Purchase (single vendor, certified hardware)– Deployment (minimizes onsite setup)– Service (single vendor support)
Fully integrated software/hardware solution
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Avamar Data Store
Avamar Data Store– Scalable with up to 52.8 TB of deduplicated disk capacity– Equivalent of up to several petabytes of cumulative traditional disk
or tape backup storage– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times– High availability and reliability with RAIN architecture, RAID, daily
integrity checks, and redundant power, switches, and NICs
Avamar Data Store single node– Supports 1 TB, 2 TB, and 3.3 TB licensable deduplicated storage
capacity configurations– Equivalent of up to 114 TB of cumulative traditional disk or tape
backup storage– Designed for easy deployment at remote offices– Offers fast, local recovery without dependence on a WAN
Flexible deployment options
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Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware
Industry’s first deduplication virtual appliance for backup, recovery, and disaster recovery
Leverages existing ESX servers and storage – Can use existing iSCSI, SAN, or DAS disk storage
Replication (of applications and storage) eliminates shipping tapes
– Replicate between virtual Avamar servers and physical Avamar servers
Facilitates rapid, cost-effective deployment and return on investment
Supports VMotion for deployment flexibility
Up to two Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware virtual appliances per VMware ESX server for scalability
Avamar server deployed as a virtual applianceAvamar
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VMware Virtualization Layer
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Avamar Data Transport
Policy-driven process exports and restores Avamar deduplicated data to and from tape
Searchable file-level catalog eases and speeds restoration
Leverages existing backup software (e.g., EMC NetWorker)
Export deduplicated data to tape for long-term storage
Fewer tapes for lower costs—up to 50 times reduction in long-term storage costs
Replicates selected Avamar server data to
data transport node residing on ESX servers
Avamar backs up clients to Avamar server
Tapevault
Avamar coordinates export of data transport
replica through tape backup system
NetWorker/NetBackup server/storagenode
Avamar grid ESX server Existing backup server
ResourcePool
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
TransportNode
TransportNode
SAN/LAN
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Avamar Supported Operating Systems and Applications
Application modules IBM DB2 9.1, 9.5, 9.7
IBM Lotus Domino 6, 7, 8
Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008
NDMP (EMC Celerra with DART 5.5, 5.6)
NDMP (NetApp Data ONTAP 6.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.1x. 7.2, 7.3.x)
Oracle 9i, 9.2, 10, 10g, 10gR2, 11g, 11gR2
VMware infrastructure ESX 3.0.x, 3.5, 3i
vSphere 4
= ESX client operating system-certified using RHEL 4 client (support within virtual machines depends on VMware support of client operating system)
Client operating systems supportedMicrosoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista and XP
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 on zLinux
Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 9.0
Solaris 8, 9, 10, 10 x86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8, 9, 10, 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10SP3 on zLinux
Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x
CentOS 4.x, 5.x
Debian 4, 5
Free BSD 6.2
HP-UX 11.0, 11iV1, 11iV2, 11iV3
IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
NetWare 6.5
Novell Open Enterprise Server OES SP2
Oracle Enterprise Linux R5
SCO OpenServer 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7
SCO UnixWare 7.1.3
No charge for client agents or application modules
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Avamar Solves Key Backup Challenges
VMware environments
Remote office/branch office (ROBO)
LAN/NAS servers
Desktop/laptop
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Virtualization changes server, application, and information paradigm… backup must evolve to deliver even greater consolidation and value
VMware Backup Challenges
VirtualServer A
Virtual Server B
Virtual Server C
Old ParadigmPhysical environment: Low overall server
utilization and plenty of bandwidth for backup
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Avamar’s Optimized Backup for VMware Infrastructure
Optimal location: Reduces data at the source– Data deduplicated at VM guest or proxy server (source)– Duplicated data never traverses congested shared physical resources– Data moved during backup is reduced from ~200% to ~2% of primary data
weekly– Deduplicates data globally across virtual machines and/or VMDK (virtual
machine disk) format files
Optimal granularity: Sub-file, variable-length segments– VMDK is one large file; any changes cause an incremental/full traditional
backup– Fixed-length segment deduplication solutions fail due to frame offset– Avamar efficiently moves only new, unique variable length data segments
Ideal for the protection of VMware environments– Delivers fast, daily full backups over existing virtual and physical infrastructure– Enables greater server consolidation by eliminating backup bottlenecks– Maximizes value from VMware
Avamar deduplicates at the optimal location and level of granularity
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Avamar Solutions for VMware InfrastructureFlexible, fast, efficient, and reliable backup and recovery
Universal support for all vSphere 4 backup options– Daily full guest- and image-level backups
vStorage API integration – Greater backup and restore flexibility
VMware vCenter Server integration – Single point of management within Avamar for all VMware backup
options
Avamar and VMware vSphere 4 integration
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Avamar’s Optimized Backup for VMware InfrastructureAvamar efficiently protects virtual machines
Up to…
95% reduction in data moved
90% reduction in backup times
50% reduction in disk impact
95% reduction in NIC usage
80% reduction in CPU usage
50% reduction in memory usage
All backups are stored as “virtual full backups,” ready for immediate restore
Enables greater server consolidation ratios without overtaxing CPU utilization
Avamar moves ~2% weekly
Traditional moves ~200% weekly
ResourcePool
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
ResourcePool
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
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Avamar Backup for VMware Guests
Avamar agent resides inside each virtual machine
Fast, daily full backups
Deduplicates data within the virtual machine, as if they were physical servers
Moves minimal backup data– Reduces resource contention and
accelerates backups
Provides file-level restore for Windows, Linux, and Solaris
ResourcePool
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
= Avamar Software Agent
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Avamar Image-Level Backups through Storage APIs
Avamar agent resides on the proxy server
Fast, daily full backups
Deduplicates within and across VMDK files
Supports both file-level (Windows only) and image-level recovery
Avamar replication provides disaster recovery for VMDKs
vStorage API virtual proxy server with Avamar agent
ResourcePool
VMware Virtualization Layer
x86 Architecture
Physical server
Virtual Machines
Avamar client software runs on the proxy server
SANstorage
Avamarserver
Mount
= Avamar Software Agent
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Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) Backup challenges and Avamar solution
The “Achilles’ heel” of data protection– More than 4 million remote offices in the U.S.– Remote office data growing at more than 50% per year* – Most back up to tape and move unencrypted tapes offsite– Often unskilled, untrained IT staff at remote sites
Avamar remote office/branch office backup is simple, safe, and manageable
– Extend data center protection to the edge– Fast, daily full backups and one-step recovery through
existing WAN/LAN links– Avamar agent-only deployment for smaller offices (no extra
local hardware)– Eliminate distributed tape management/infrastructure– Mitigate risk involved with manually shipping tapes– Data encrypted in-flight and at-rest for security
*Source: Gartner
“Avamar enabled us to reduce administrative support requirements by 80%, reduce backup windows by 90%, and recover lost files and servers in minutes rather than hours.”
— Mike DePhillip, Backup Administrator,
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
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NAS Filer Backup and Recovery Challenges
Limited backup windows– Daily full backups desired, but not feasible
Limited backup and recovery performance– Single filer controllers have limited resources and can
become a bottleneck – Incomplete backups leave data at risk
Limited network links and disk storage– Redundant data limits performance of network/
infrastructure and requires more disk storage
Impact on end users– When backups exceed allotted window, end users compete
for the NAS resources (poor response, lower productivity)
NDMP licenses– Traditional NAS filers require expensive NDMP licenses to
support backup and recovery
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Avamar NAS/NDMP Backup Accelerator
How it works– Avamar Accelerator uses NDMP to communicate to source NAS device– Accelerator requests only modified data daily– Accelerator performs source-based deduplication on modified data
Only new modified segments are sent to Avamar Data Store – Source and global deduplication occur at Accelerator
Avamar’s NDMP backups are ready for immediate recovery– Avoids time-consuming task of restoring weekly full, plus daily incremental, backups
Fast, efficient daily full backups for EMC Celerra and NetApp Filers
NAS device(EMC or NetApp)
LAN LAN/WAN
Avamar NDMPAccelerator
AvamarData Store
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Before Avamar
After Avamar
DailyIncre-mental
Avamar Optimized Backup for NAS Filers
Eliminates time-consuming, traditional full NDMP backups
– Daily deduplicated full backups– Up to 10-times faster than traditional
NDMP backups
Fast recovery from full backup image– Eliminates hassle of recovering from last
good full and subsequent incremental backups
Flexible recovery– Restore full file system or single file to
Avamar client or NAS device – Allows flexible disaster recovery solutions
Cost-effective disaster recovery– Backup data is encrypted– Easily replicated offsite through existing
WAN bandwidth
Weekend Full
WeekendFull
DailyFull
DailyFull
DailyFull
DailyFull
DailyFull
DailyFull
DailyFull
DailyIncre-mental
DailyIncre-mental
DailyIncre-mental
DailyIncre-mental
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Avamar Desktop/Laptop
End-user initiated restore
Windows or Mac OS X
Desktop/Laptop Backup Challenges and Avamar Solution
Puts power in end-users hands– Eliminates Help Desk for restoring
data to desktop or laptop– End users restore their data anytime,
anywhere– Self-managed restores– Document-level search engine– Multiple language support
All the benefits of Avamar backup– Data deduplicated at the source– Daily full backups—up to 10-times
faster– Minimal impact on PC and network
resources during backupAvamar Data Store
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Avamar’s Unique Value
Deduplicates data at the client (source)– Fast, daily full backups through existing infrastructure
Deduplicates data globally– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times
Fast, single-step recovery– Eliminates hassle of recovering last good full and subsequent
incrementals to reach desired recovery point
Recoverability verified daily– Daily server integrity checks; data recoverability verified daily
High availability– RAIN architecture and replication—no single points of failure
Centralized management– Streamlines administration and management of remote backups
Flexible deployment options
Complete solution from EMC– Backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and data deduplication
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Global data deduplication defuses the explosion of backup data
– Fast, daily full backups through existing networks
– Backup disk storage reduced by up to 50 times
Alters the fundamental economics of disk versus tape
– Accelerate shift to disk as primary medium for backup
Key element of EMC’s next-generation backup portfolio
Avamar Transforms Backup and Recovery
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EMC Services for Avamar Derive maximum value
Consulting Services Align service levels and Reference Architectures with business requirements
Implementation Services Minimize risk, accelerate implementation, and speed time to value of new
technologies
Operational Assurance Services Post-implementation operational best-practice knowledge transfer Performance optimization and tuning Process recommendations for improvement Training recommendations
Residency Services Fill missing skill gaps with Avamar services professionals—typical contract
three or more months Tailor best-practice recommendations, knowledge transfer based on in-depth
understanding of your environment
Designated Support Engineer Senior support resource resolves product support issues quickly
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Avamar
Data Store
NetWorker and Avamar Integration
How it works Integrated client is a standard feature of NetWorker
NetWorker represents the Avamar Data Store as a deduplication node
Deduplication is enabled through NetWorker Management Console
Save process gathers metadata and sends it to the NetWorker server and data to the deduplication node
On recovery, required deduplication data is requested, and full dataset is restored at client
Clients
NetWorker
NetWorkerStorage
node
Disk, VTL, Tape
ServerManagementConsole
NetWorker
Metadata Data
Metadata
NetWorker
Deduplicationnode
Data
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Unify—See—Act Automatically collect data from across data
protection infrastructure Transform disparate data into new insights,
actionable information, and service-level agreement statistics
Make better, faster decisions to meet service level agreements, correct issues, and drive efficiency
Payback typically 12 months or less Reduces costs with automation and new
insight that drives efficient use of people and infrastructure
Improves compliance, lowers risk with greater visibility into service-level agreement recoverability statistics
Minimizes complexity with a single, integrated view across the environment
Single view for data protection management, including backup
applications, replication, and continuous data protection (CDP)
Single view for data protection management, including backup
applications, replication, and continuous data protection (CDP)
Data Protection AdvisorUnified monitoring, analysis, and reporting
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EMC Data Domain and AvamarRetain, replicate, recover
Deduplicate everything without changing anything
Never back up the same data twice
Simplify backup, archiving, and disaster recovery with easy integration across workloads,
infrastructures, and backup software
Revolutionize your backup by moving less data to solve your toughest VMware, NAS,
and remote-office backup challenges
Avamar deduplication backup software
Data Domain deduplication storage systems
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USE CASE
Mecklenburg CountyBacking up NAS Filers through the Avamar NDMP Accelerator
“The Avamar system has been absolutely bulletproof since it was fully implemented, it’s part of our strategy to reduce overall costs and provide more efficient public services —advantages that can’t be over-emphasized in today’s economy.
— Jason Girad, Storage Engineer
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USE CASE
St. Peter’s Health Care Services Backing up a VMware infrastructure
Before Avamar
Data center redesign focused on server consolidation and virtualization
Concern about traditional, tape-based backup in VMware environment
Backup windows strained; physical resources overburdened
With Avamar
Deployed agents within virtual machines
95% reduction in data moved
90% reduction in backup times
Major reductions in NIC, CPU, and memory usage
Centralized management and control
“Avamar provides a huge time and cost savings for backup of multiple virtual machines.”
With Avamar, we can centrally manage all of our backups, and we also gain the ability to rapidly restore data down to the file level.”
— Curtis Damhof, Network Manager,
St. Peter’s Health Care Services
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USE CASE
Global Industrial Manufacturer Backing up a VMware infrastructure
“Avamar was much less expensive than our other backup and recovery options. But it also provides us faster data restores, more backup capacity, and scalability to meet future data protection needs.”
— Company spokesman, global industrial manufacturer
Before Avamar
Struggling to meet backup, recovery, and reliability goals across extended enterprise
Lengthy backup windows caused by increasing data volumes, threatening network performance
Expanding existing backup solution would require second master server, two additional tape silos, 16 new LTO tape drives
With Avamar
Backup for VMware (24 ESX servers, 332 virtual clients)
Avamar agents installed in VM guests
Eliminated physical tape management
Reduced backup and recovery administrative burden
Backup performance increased ten-fold
Backup network traffic reduced by 95%
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USE CASE
Fortune 20 Healthcare SupplierBacking up a VMware infrastructure
Before Avamar
Growing VMware environment struggles to meet backup window
Daily tape backup and offsite tape shipments—risky slow recovery
Unable to quickly replicate data through WAN for disaster recovery
With Avamar
Global deduplication effective within and across VMDK files
More than 70% reduction in first backup and average of 99.7% thereafter
Compared to traditional alternatives, testing showed: – Avamar moved 20% of the data that Symantec PureDisk moved– Avamar moved 190% less data than traditional tape backup software
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USE CASE
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles Remote-office/branch-office backup
Before Avamar
73 remote offices, backup to local, direct-attached tape drives
No local IT staff
Daily backup required five hours per site; six hours to restore entire server
With Avamar
Four hours to back up all 73 offices through existing WAN (56k-T1) to central Avamar server
45 minutes to restore entire servers; files restored in seconds
Centralized management and control
“Avamar enabled us to reduce administrative support requirements by 80%, reduce backup windows by 90%, and recover lost files and servers in minutes rather than hours.”
— Mike DePhillip, Backup Administrator,
Virginia DMV
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USE CASE
Corporate ExpressRemote office/branch office backup
Before Avamar
Storage demands were rapidly increasing
Tape library was reaching slot capacity and upgrading was not ideal due to age and maintenance costs
Needed to control costs and simplify data management
Backup and disaster recovery was time consuming
With Avamar
Reduced stored data by more than 50 percent—from 92 TB to 44 TB
Achieved significant financial savings
Enabled disk-based backups to be completed in 30 minutes, compare to six hours in the past for tape
Reduced restoration times for business-critical data from 24 hours to minutes
“We were blown away by the simplicity of the management interface and the comprehensive capabilities offered by Avamar. After carrying out a proof of concept, we clearly understood the benefits Avamar would bring to our business.”
— Mark Jones, Technology Infrastructure Manager
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USE CASE
A Global Pharmaceutical CompanyRemote-office/branch-office backup
Before Avamar
Strain developing and deploying a coherent IT strategy for more than 250 sites, 100,000 employees
– Lacked consistent IT infrastructure– Cumbersome tape backup solution was overextending staff and overtaxing
virtual machines
Escalating capital and operation costs
With Avamar
Deployed from templates within a virtual application pack
Reduced backup time by more than 75%; slashed cycle time for offsite data replication
Minimized impact on network bandwidth
Reduced storage costs by eliminating tape backup and slashing storage requirements
“When we compared the total cost of ownership of EMC Avamar to that of traditional backup, we found that Avamar cost less yet provides exponentially better data protection and service levels.”
— Head of Storage ServicesGlobal pharmceutical
company