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Definition
Back up and recover file and application data consistently outside of the data center through a centralized backup process while also allowing local data recovery.
Challenges
- Complying with a growing number of regulations governing the handling and protection of customer data
- Establishing consistent backups and reliable recovery with limited IT resources and network bandwidth
- Dealing with exponential growth in data at remote sites, which makes wide-area network backups impractical
- Minimizing high administrative costs associated with a backup applications and tape media at multiple remote sites
- Reducing or eliminating the off-site transport of backup data on tapes from remote sites to other locations
Symantec Solution: Data Protection
Prepare for and recover from the effects of equipment failure or accidental loss of data with consistent and reliable data protection that improves the efficiency of systems and staff.
- Standardize on a unified data protection platform for the data center and remote offices
- Reduce bandwidth usage significantly with bandwidth-efficient data protection with optional data deduplication
- Simplify recovery from disk at multiple locations with integrated replication
- Recover servers to dissimilar hardware easily with image-based recovery technology
