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Integrated Backup And Replication: It's As Much About Stopping The Bleeding As It Is Recovering The Data
February 9, 2009
Click Here To Download:•Guest Column: Integrated Backup And Replication: It's As Much About Stopping The Bleeding As It Is Recovering The Data
By Jerome M Wendt DCIG, LLC
I regularly write about the inner workings of current and new technologies and how they can benefit organizations from a technical and financial perspective. But when talking to individuals out in the field who are actually using these products, it provides me with an entirely different perspective as to what specific benefits they glean from using them. In fact, when I recently chatted with InfoReliance's John Chirhart, a consultant to the US Government, he said that after he completed his recent testing of CommVault's Simpana Replication and Backup/Restore, he had to re-examine what data protection strategy that he should recommend to his clients and how they should manage data protection going forward.
At a high level, the benefits of using both Simpana Replication and Backup/Restore are intuitively obvious. Administrators can select the best data protection option for each application and then use a common console to create and put in effect the appropriate management policies for either product. Further, all of the protected data is then stored and indexed by Simpana.
Click Here To Download:•Guest Column: Integrated Backup And Replication: It's As Much About Stopping The Bleeding As It Is Recovering The Data
