The Power of Aligning Backup, Recovery, and Archive

Bob Madaio

Sr. Manager; Backup, Recovery and Archive Marketing

EMC Corporation

Backup and Archive Efficiencies Through ILM

“Although backup, extraction, and archive remain discrete processes, there are strategic advantages to be gained by organizations that align these processes with the value of the business data being stored in conjunction with ILM initiatives.”

– The Sageza Group, March 2005

Common Backup and Archive Pain Points

• Performance of backups• Reliable recovery• Tape infrastructure availability• Management overhead• Cost of tape media/libraries• Risk associated with offsite media

storage• Long-term data retention

Traditional Backup and Archive Process

• Production environment grows

• Backup environment capacity tied to production growth

• Data retention environment expands rapidly and is difficult to manage

RetentionCopies

BackupProcess

ProductionApps

This Design Leaves Customers Struggling

• Cannot finish backups in available windows• Recoveries are slow and unpredictable• The same data is backed up over and over again• Multiple identical copies of information

Typical Answers? • Add more tape, add faster tape• Speed backup and expense of recovery

– Incrementals, mulitplexing, or less frequent backups

New Architecture for Backup/Recovery and Archive

Understand your environment Actively archive valuable information to

tiered storageBack up to disk active production

informationRetrieve from archive or recover from

backup

Archiveprocess

Recoveryprocess Production

Understanding Backup and Archive Differences

Backup• For recovery• Secondary copy• Improves availability

• Short term in nature• Typically overwritten• Not for regulatory

compliance

Archive• For retrieval• Copy of record• Adds operational

efficiencies• Long-term in nature• Data typically

maintained• Useful for compliance

Rapid Customer Adoption

• 71% of IT users surveyed plan to deploy backup to disk in 2005 (Goldman Sachs, Jan 2005)

• 49% of them also plan to reevaluate their software (Goldman Sachs, Jan 2005)

• 80% of CIO’s rank “tape replacement” as a high or medium priority (Citigroup Inv. Research, Aug 2005)

• EMC has led the industry:– 150PB of ATA capacity, over 300TB daily– Over 20,000 Legato NetWorker and 7,500

Xtender family customers

EMC Comprehensive Backup, Recovery and Archive Solutions

Huntington National Bank Deployment

• Assessed and classified data, tiered hardware

• Actively archive E-mail and Content Management systems to EMC Centera

• Backup-to-disk onto CLARiiON Disk Library

• Replication deployed for both EMC Centera and CLARiiON Disk Library

“By archiving images of our loan documents and email files onto online content-addressed storage . . . we reduce the amount of data we need to store on the highly functional Tier 1 systems, which helps reduce our total cost of ownership.” Todd Baumann, VP and Director of Enterprise Business Continuity

Huntington National Bank Outcome

• Reduced tier one capacity by 80% for key applications

• Recovery Time Capability from >24 hours to 30 minutes

• Significant cost reductions

• Helps assure compliance and management

• Reduced risk through avoidance of offsite tape mishaps

“With CLARiiON Disk Library, we’ve been able to eliminate both the hard cost and labor associated with tape.”Scott Vandergriff, Manager of Enterprise Infrastructure

Conclusion

• The time has come to revisit old thinking relative to backup and archiving

• Investigate disk based solutions and integrated backup and archive processes

• EMC has the breadth of services, solutions and partners to assist you today

“Backup and recovery and archiving strategies complement one another. Employed intelligently and effectively, each can leverage the impact or results of the other.” Taneja Group, September 2005