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Archive Step One
When you hear the word “archive” you may think it has to be complicated. Maybe you have experience trying to use archive products from other vendors. Maybe it added more management overhead than it was worth.
A Better Way
When built as a single solution with your backup and recovery software, file system archive offers big benefits with virtually no added complexity to manage. CommVault Simpana archive takes stale data out of your primary file systems, and stores it on secondary storage. This not only effectively extends the life of your primary storage, it also reduces the time that it takes to perform your backup and the size of the tapes or disks that you need to store the backup copies. Archive can also improve the performance of your file systems and applications.
As your first step into archive, we would encourage you to consider adding archive for file systems. You’ll see immediate benefits while getting to know how easy it can be to manage archive in your Simpana suite. Next, consider adding archive for Exchange mailboxes. You’ll reduce the size of your Exchange Information Stores while dramatically speeding Exchange performance. Finally, you may consider adding archive to the Exchange journal, to similarly reduce its size.
CommVault Simpana archive is different from other archive technologies because it is built into the same backup product that you are already using, with: A single Unified Console interface for managing everything A common method for managing policies One set of systems, disks, and tape infrastructure to maintain Dramatically reduced training time
Lower your costs and complexity. Take a look for yourself at how CommVault Simpana makes archive a seamless part of data management.