Managing backup and recovery is an ongoing issue. Data continues to grow by leaps and bounds, yet the window to backup and recover all that information is shrinking just as quickly. In fact, according to InfoStor Magazine, most IT personnel don't "know whether they are backing up everything they should be ... few have tested their restore capabilities ... others can't get their backups done within the allotted window."

• Application availability: lengthy backup windows create lost revenue due to low productivity or customer transactions
• Lengthy recovery times: inability to quickly access data, especially for mission-critical applications
• Questionable backup reliability: there is no assurance backups are complete enough to use for recovery
• Management complexity: using tape as the primary backup target can require significant manual intervention
• Increasing backup and recovery management costs

The Engenio backup and recovery portfolio of solutions solves these backup and recovery problems by using SANtricity® software replication functionality (such as snapshot), and serial ATA (SATA) storage systems (which leverage powerful Engenio controllers with low-cost/MB SATA drives).

• High application availability
• Production application continues during backup processing
• Reduces the backup window to nearly zero
• More consistent, predictable backup cycles
• Rapid information recovery
• Restores data from disk, eliminating time to copy bulk data from tape
• Enables full or incremental rapid recovery by reducing need to apply transaction logs to find consistency level prior to failure
• Significantly faster restores from SATA
• More consistent, predictable restore times
• Better backup reliability
• Enables increased number of fast backups
• Reduces the likelihood that open files will be missed during backup
• Built-in redundancy with RAID protection
• Confident recovery of critical data
• Eliminates mechanical issues of administering tape for primary backup target
• Easier backup operations management
• Reduced complexity and manual administration
• Integrates with existing storage infrastructure
• Uses existing backup software tools and methods
• Lower storage administration costs
• Creates a fast way to take advantage of shared SAN-based storage
• Reduces software licensing for backup clients; application server free
• Delivers easy, proven upgrade to existing environments

Engenio solution kits include hardware and software from leading vendors that have been qualified and have gone through extensive testing by Engenio.

As with all Engenio products, solution components, and implementations are available exclusively through our OEM+ partners.

The information contained in the Engenio Solution Program, and specific solutions and its deliverables, is intended solely as an aid for installing and configuring storage environments with Engenio technology, as provided by an Engenio strategic partner. Engenio does not warrant or guarantee the information.