Given the exponential growth of unstructured file data along with limited IT budgets and staff, the ability to efficiently backup and recover critical data residing on NAS systems can be a real hassle, to say the least. All-too-familiar challenges include:
- Full and incremental NDMP backups that exceed backup windows
- Tedious, multi-step recovery methods
- Failure-prone tape devices that can be difficult to manage
- Lengthy backups that hinder NAS consolidation and increase costs.
Fortunately, there are things you can do about these problems. As you evaluate the best way to protect your environment, you’ll want to consider the impact of you existing backup infrastructure on performance, time and cost:
- Performance: Integrated data deduplication can help improve performance, while significantly reducing network and storage costs. Also, single-step data recovery can help eliminate the hassle of restoring the last good full backup along with subsequent incrementals to reach the desired recovery point.
- Time: By deploying a backup and recovery solution that can span physical and virtual environments across the entire enterprise, you can significantly reduce the amount of time and resources spent managing your infrastructure. This can free up staff and funds for other IT initiatives and projects.
- Cost: In addition to reducing the amount of data sent across the network and stored to disk during backup operations, backup data can also be asynchronously replicated offsite daily via existing IP networks for disaster recovery. This eliminates the management, cost, and risk associated with shipping tapes offsite, proving you with peace of mind.
So, if you have room for one more New Year’s resolution (it’s never too late, is it?), promise to learn more about EMC Data Protection Solutions. It’s never been easier to quickly and efficiently protect your NAS environment and everything else across the enterprise!