How Archiving reduces Backup Windows
Extend Backup Windows through Active Archiving
The exponential growth in information is set to continue and organisations need to look at new strategies for protect this information in the future. Shoden Data Systems believes that as backup window availability reduces, moving static data to an active archive can reduce backup requirements by more than 50%.
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Today’s world demands a more intelligent approach to securing data and companies recognise that the data explosion will cause backup requirements to grow exponentially. Empirical data suggests that over 50% of a company’s data is inactive within three months of creation. By defining criteria regarding management of older data, the moving of older data to an “Active Archive” can reduce backup time frames and slim down the amount of data backed up - thus speeding up search and recovery times and saving money.
An online, disk based “Active Archive” can improve client service responsiveness by making infrequently needed data available faster, but also improve online relational database performance by taking the infrequently needed data “out” of the relational database, enhancing performance, Storage utilisation and availability. Through the replication and retention capabilities of an “Active Archive” clients are able to protect their inactive data at the local as well as disaster recovery site. When used in conjunction with their backup methodology, an organisations data is secured in an efficient and effective manner when compared to backup alone.
Some key benefits are:
- No proprietary API’s.
- Standards Based Interfaces –Including NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, https, WebDAV, SMTP, NDMP
- Streamline Backup policies and procedures
- Improve database performance by removing redundant/idle data
- Ensure availability of business critical data for years to come.
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