EMC move in on data protection turf
EMC move in on data protection turf
Oct 27, 2005: EMC have this week announced that they are moving into data protection with a new piece of software called RecoverPoint.
RecoverPoint gives continuous data protection when working with enterprise Unix and Windows environments. It saves changes to data on the fly, allowing immediate recovery to any previous point in time, within a customer-defined window of protection. Because data is captured whenever a change is made, a possible recovery point is available for every instant in time. RecoverPoint also offers coordinated recovery of groups of related applications, enabling organizations to restart applications from the same point in time, providing for simpler and faster return to normal operations.
EMC have also announced enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery software - EMC Legato NetWorker, and the release of Backup Advisor, marking the company's entry into the storage resource management space. Backup Advisor is a backup reporting and analysis tool that gathers information from the entire backup infrastructure (backup software, tape drives, backup server operating system, etc.) and presents it in a way that helps customers identify and rectify backup process and operational problems. It allows users to monitor all of the components related to data backups, and then analyse backup problems and predict backup issues.
"Customers have been looking for better ways to optimise their information and application recovery investments. EMC RecoverPoint enables organizations to better leverage current technologies driving greater flexibility to a customer's information protection strategy." said Mark Sorenson, Senior Vice President, EMC Software. "In addition, we continue to make investments in our backup and recovery software, addressing new customer needs like security and backup analysis."
The data protection market is quite crowded, and these new releases from EMC will no doubt put it into direct competition with the likes of rivals such as Symantec and IBM.
Backup Advisor is immediately available and EMC RecoverPoint and EMC Legato NetWorker version 7.3 will be available later this quarter.
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