EMC Updates Data Protection Portfolio

November 25 2008: EMC has rolled out new versions of its data protection offerings, saying it can help customers meet new data protection requirements, reduce costs and mitigate risk.

The company says that with its new analysis and reporting, backup for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual environments and data de-duplication capabilities it can simplify the management of expanding environments while slowing data growth.

EMC has updated and expanded the capabilities of its Data Protection Advisor, Networker backup and recovery software, Avamar backup and recovery software for source-based data de-duplication and RecoverPoint and its continuous data protection capabilities for EMC and non-EMC storage arrays.

The company has also announced the addition of a new Data Protection Advisor. Formerly EMC Backup Advisor, the company says that the re-branded Data Protection Advisor (v5.0) enables backup reporting, alerting, monitoring, and analysis of heterogeneous storage infrastructures.

In enables consolidation of the collection, analysis and presentation of information across data protection environments, including backup components, domains and locations. Coverage has been expanded, enabling faster decision making and improved cost reduction, and using Virtual Center API's, EMC says that data can be collected from VMware servers and hosted images, enabling tracking of performance, resource consumption, and data protection information, as well as movement of host images between systems.

“No one has as broad a data protection portfolio as EMC does. This year alone we've introduced more new products and more new features that reduce cost and risk than all of our competitors combined,” said Mark Sorenson, EMC's Senior Vice President of Storage Software.

“Backup is one of the biggest challenges that our customers face and we work every day to help make backups easier to manage, non-disruptive, faster and more cost-effective. The new features introduced today, combined with a range of new products introduced at EMC World, represent the state-of-the-art in data protection technology. From management of traditional tape environments to the latest in data de-duplication of disk-based backup environments, EMC has the platforms, software and services that are helping thousands customers around the world protect their data.”

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