Getting the most from Cloud-based “Farline™” Storage with CommVault® Simpana® software
CommVault Simpana software provides a broad range of data and information management capabilities through a single interface. Packed with security, reliability and ease-of-use features, CommVault cloud-enabled Simpana software helps improve service levels, expand data protection and reduce operational costs inside and outside of the data center.
CommVault Simpana software provides a proven data and information management foundation:
Tiering Data to Cloud Storage Solutions
As data volumes continue to increase, many companies find themselves bumping up against the capacity, cooling or power limitations of their existing data centers. Meanwhile, regulations require many businesses to keep ever-growing amounts of data for compliance purposes. This three-way balancing act between capacity, compliance and cost requires a flexible approach to data management that requires a multi-tier approach that extends to cloud-based storage.
Cloud-based Disaster Recovery
Small and medium enterprises typically grapple with the same data protection requirements as larger enterprises. However, these smaller businesses often lack the personnel, facilities, systems, and budgets needed for disaster recovery.
With Farline storage, small and medium enterprises can now protect mission-critical data by securely storing it offsite, protecting against disruptive man-made and/or natural events. CommVault data management software enables these organizations to configure how frequently they want to copy data to the cloud, and to quickly and easily retrieve it back to any alternate Simpana software-managed location.
Protecting Remote-Office Data
For many businesses, protecting data that resides outside of the Data Center is an imperative, for which cloud-based storage presents a viable option. Storing remote-office data allows the central IT team to control the movement and management of information along with defining the appropriate data retention and recovery policies.
Instead of migrating data to the Data Center first and then the cloud, data from remote offices can be backed up directly to cloud-based storage. As data ages past retention guidelines, it can be automatically deleted in the cloud, thereby creating ongoing savings in capacity utilization charges.
Because the data is managed as if it were stored in the core Data Center, the Simpana software Storage Resource Management (SRM) module can be easily used to monitor, analyze and monitor data across the enterprise regardless of whether it stored in the cloud, in the Data Center or in remote offices.
Archive Stale Data to the Cloud
Stale data can be found throughout the enterprise – from the central data center to the remote offices worldwide. By some estimates, almost 50 percent of unstructured data is stale, meaning it hasn’t been accessed in over a year.
Simpana software enables you to take advantage of Farline storage for storing stale data, unlocking benefits that cross different storage tiers:
- Archiving stale data frees up valuable capacity on your production storage tiers, allowing you to extend the useful life of your existing storage, and minimize the need for incremental purchases
- Reduce the size of your backup datasets and backup windows by eliminating the need to backup infrequently accessed data
Search/eDiscovery
As data management requirements expand beyond the physical infrastructure and into the cloud, your legal and reporting requirements continue to grow as well. Simpana software offers four key benefits for Search/eDiscovery.
- Indices of all data retained can be kept on-premise. This enables you to retain control of the most critical and sensitive aspects of information management, and ensures that content indexes are accessible only to designated personnel within your organization.
- Index metadata is searchable locally, so there is no latency with regards to data that may be retained in the cloud over a number of years or even decades. This reduces the amount of time and data required by your legal and/or IT teams.
- Only the specific data required for eDiscovery requests is restored back from the cloud. This reduces network load, the time needed for data restore and minimizes the data retrieval costs charged by your cloud-storage vendor.
- Global indexing of all relevant data, from the physical Data Center to remote sites, mobile users and cloud-based data. This ensures that you not only have a global view of all your data, but that you also avoid the legal and financial risks associated with incomplete responses to eDiscovery requests.