CommVault Powers HDPS 8.0 in Ways Seen and Unseen to Deliver a Comprehensive Enterprise Solution
Last Friday, May 8, 2009, the latest unemployment figures were released by the US Bureau of Labor and it was not a pretty sight with US unemployment rates reaching 8.9% in April 2009. But that number fails to tell the whole story. Granted, a lot of individuals are now looking for work but I also speak to a lot of IT staff who are still employed that now need to get their job done plus do the jobs of the individuals who were let go. These individuals need more integrated solutions that require less time to manage, not more. In that vein, the announcement that the Hitachi Data Protection Suite (HDPS) 8.0 will continue to be powered by CommVault (now in more ways than one) should be welcomed by enterprise organizations that need a robust and integrated data management and protection solution that extends across both hardware and software platforms.
Hitachi Data Systems' (HDS) decision to continue using CommVault® Simpana® to power HDPS 8.0 probably comes as no surprise to anyone. The relationship between HDS and CommVault goes back to 2004 when Hitachi first began to use CommVault Simpana to power HDPS. Further, this relationship has, by all accounts, worked out well for both of these organizations and the clients that they collectively serve.
The release of HDPS 8.0 is therefore noteworthy in that HDS can now deliver a much more robust solution stack to their customers for the management of data on both their primary and secondary storage systems. HDPS already supported archiving as a means to reduce data stores on primary storage by moving aging or select file types (JPEGs, MPEGs, etc) to lower cost secondary storage like the HDS AMS storage systems. Using this feature, organizations can archive data to lower HDS storage systems from production NetApp NAS filers that are near or at capacity.
The inclusion of block-based deduplication in HDPS 8.0 takes this existing functionality a step further. First, deduplication can dramatically lower the costs associated with the HDS AMS storage systems by enabling organizations to increase the amount of data that they can store on them by up to 15-fold.
However enterprises with remote and branch offices (ROBOs) that are looking to consolidate this data can leverage the full benefits that HDS brings to the table on an even larger scale. The combination of HDPS 8.0's deduplication and HDS's storage systems coupled with another feature of HDPS 8.0, its Data Replication feature, should enable organizations to cost-effectively introduce disk into these sites as a primary backup and recovery target that serves as the foundation for centralizing data protection.
By jointly deploying HDPS 8.0 and HDS AMS storage systems at these ROBOs, organizations receive an integrated hardware and software solution that is tested, validated and supported that increases backup and recovery success rates, reduces backup windows and takes tape management out of the equation at these sites. By adding the HDPS 8.0 Data Replication feature into the picture, organizations can now replicate this data back to the home office, possibly using existing network links since only net new deduplicated data at these is replicated back to the main office. Deduplication minimizes the amount of data that is both sent and stored in the enterprise and, because the deduplication is handled by HDPS, organizations can use the most appropriate HDS storage system at the ROBO or main office.
Today's news is around HDS's release of HDPS 8.0 and how it leverages CommVault to better protect virtualized environments, embedded deduplication and remote office protection. However of equal importance is the behind-the-scenes story that CommVault and HDS are working more closely together. In so doing, they are providing a more comprehensive solution that better leverages the expertise and strengths of both of their companies to solve the problems that enterprises are experiencing in both their data centers and remote offices. These new features and increases in collaboration combine to deliver an integrated, enterprise "Can't miss" solution that now overshadows many competitive offerings and should give enterprise organizations a renewed perspective on the total value proposition that HDS can deliver for enterprise data protection and management.
Hitachi Data Systems' (HDS) decision to continue using CommVault® Simpana® to power HDPS 8.0 probably comes as no surprise to anyone. The relationship between HDS and CommVault goes back to 2004 when Hitachi first began to use CommVault Simpana to power HDPS. Further, this relationship has, by all accounts, worked out well for both of these organizations and the clients that they collectively serve.
The release of HDPS 8.0 is therefore noteworthy in that HDS can now deliver a much more robust solution stack to their customers for the management of data on both their primary and secondary storage systems. HDPS already supported archiving as a means to reduce data stores on primary storage by moving aging or select file types (JPEGs, MPEGs, etc) to lower cost secondary storage like the HDS AMS storage systems. Using this feature, organizations can archive data to lower HDS storage systems from production NetApp NAS filers that are near or at capacity.
The inclusion of block-based deduplication in HDPS 8.0 takes this existing functionality a step further. First, deduplication can dramatically lower the costs associated with the HDS AMS storage systems by enabling organizations to increase the amount of data that they can store on them by up to 15-fold.
However enterprises with remote and branch offices (ROBOs) that are looking to consolidate this data can leverage the full benefits that HDS brings to the table on an even larger scale. The combination of HDPS 8.0's deduplication and HDS's storage systems coupled with another feature of HDPS 8.0, its Data Replication feature, should enable organizations to cost-effectively introduce disk into these sites as a primary backup and recovery target that serves as the foundation for centralizing data protection.
By jointly deploying HDPS 8.0 and HDS AMS storage systems at these ROBOs, organizations receive an integrated hardware and software solution that is tested, validated and supported that increases backup and recovery success rates, reduces backup windows and takes tape management out of the equation at these sites. By adding the HDPS 8.0 Data Replication feature into the picture, organizations can now replicate this data back to the home office, possibly using existing network links since only net new deduplicated data at these is replicated back to the main office. Deduplication minimizes the amount of data that is both sent and stored in the enterprise and, because the deduplication is handled by HDPS, organizations can use the most appropriate HDS storage system at the ROBO or main office.
Today's news is around HDS's release of HDPS 8.0 and how it leverages CommVault to better protect virtualized environments, embedded deduplication and remote office protection. However of equal importance is the behind-the-scenes story that CommVault and HDS are working more closely together. In so doing, they are providing a more comprehensive solution that better leverages the expertise and strengths of both of their companies to solve the problems that enterprises are experiencing in both their data centers and remote offices. These new features and increases in collaboration combine to deliver an integrated, enterprise "Can't miss" solution that now overshadows many competitive offerings and should give enterprise organizations a renewed perspective on the total value proposition that HDS can deliver for enterprise data protection and management.
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