Backup and Archive Solutions
Reducing the pain of data protection
Three key issues today cause the majority of data protection difficulties and related customer headaches. These issues are compliance, complexity and cost.
In the face of frequent new government regulations, changing industry standards, and more stringent corporate requirements, data protection environments are being stretched to meet compliance regulations. More and more data needs to be retained for longer periods, using multiple copies, on specific media types - such as WORM - and must be retrievable and recoverable in defined intervals. To make sure that these objectives are met, some corporations are mandating service level agreements. All of this adds another layer of complexity to the already complicated requirements of data protection. Further, as Information Lifecycle Management and tiered storage moves into the realm of practice, additional hardware and software from a variety of manufacturers increases data center management. This complex environment frequently demands costly solutions that stretch and quickly outgrow the data protection budget.
Strategic Data Management understands the navigation of these complex requirements that surround your data backup and archive needs. Our approach first classifies your data and aligns the classifications with the various regulatory and business requirements appropriate for your environment. We then work with our partners to design a system that meets your needs at an ideal balance of cost and performance. Strategic Data Management then manages the integration and installation of your backup/archive solution into your business environment.
Two of our exciting partners are CommVault and Spectra Logic. CommVault provides the industry's premier backup, recovery, archive, and eDiscovery management solutions. Spectra Logic provides the hardware solutions to bring these management applications to their fullest potential. Strategic Data Management provides the expertise and strategy to seamlessly integrate these solutions, and the know-how to turn information into knowledge and knowledge action. By leveraging our data management solutions organizations can reduce the clutter of information and deliver the right information to the right people at the right time to make better business decisions.
CommVault's Simpana software's single code base and common platform deliver the industry's only truly holistic data management solution. This revolutionary architecture enables companies to immediately reclaim space on primary storage, reduce offsite storage by up to 90 percent, and eliminate up to half their tape drives (not to mention deduplicate data across all tiers as well as archive, preserve, and search information for eDiscovery). The result? Data management cost savings of up to 40 percent, in under one year.
Unlike competitive data management software solutions, Simpana software's unique "singular" approach employs modules for Backup, Archive, Replication, Resource Management, and Search, built from the ground up on a single unifying code base and common platform.
Modules effortlessly “talk” to one another -- performing all data management functions quickly, easily, and reliably from a single console with an integrated view of all managed data across all applications, platforms, devices, and locations.
Because modules are individually licensable, choose whichever ones meet current needs and activate additional modules as new needs emerge. And the platform is installed only once, providing built-in scalability and flexibility to address future needs.
The economics, flexibility, and scalability of Simpana 8 are clear. This "singular" architecture eliminates the need for a myriad of disparate, point-level products, each with its own interface, hardware infrastructure, training, support requirements, and cost.
Spectra Logic custom builds innovative tape backup and disk backup and archive solutions for secondary storage, to protect data after it migrates from primary disk. More than 20,000 companies worldwide have implemented Spectra Logic solutions to address tiered storage needs. With Spectra Logic solutions, no single technology is advocated at any customer site. Instead, Spectra architects a customized blend of software and hardware to create the right solution to meet each customers needs. Spectra Logic solutions provide features that are built in, not bolted on, so customers can easily add capacity, encryption, deduplication, energy monitoring, media health reporting, and much more.in the field, when needs change. Spectra Logic is available 24x7 to provide the best in support, worldwide. Spectra Logic's corporate headquarters and US-based manufacturing has been located in Boulder, Colorado since the company's founding in 1979.
Tape Libraries
Tape libraries from Spectra Logic will lower management costs, reduce risk, and protect your investment. Whether entry level, workgroup, or enterprise level backup and archive is needed, we have tape libraries to meet our customers' needs. Click here for an overview of Spectra Logic's tape libraries.
nTier Archive Solutions
Spectra Logic's disk based products allow rapid backup times, with the added ability to move data off-site. These products are ideal for a comprehensive storage and archive solution. Click here for an overview of Spectra Logic's nTier archive solutions.