Business Challenge
Many business applications save mission critical data in databases such as Sybase®. The protection of such data is crucial for business continuity and the loss or inaccessibility can cause high costs, risks and business disruption. Companies have to develop efficient and effective data management and data protection plans, especially for unplanned events or disasters in order to avoid data loss. A proficient and compelling data management plan includes backup and recovery for short and mid term data management, archiving for long term data protection as well as storage resource management and even data indexing for eDiscovery and information lifecycle management. Many companies have deployed point solutions that are not integrated and therefore lack the overall ease of manageability and the unified data management policy in order to have a coherent timeline to manage data efficiently from backup to archiving. Database administrators are mostly disconnected from data management staff why it is very difficult to find one solution that addresses all tasks and solves all challenges for both groups.
Another aspect of data management is the constantly raising storage need to move, store and manage large amounts of business related, valuable and essential data, why customers considering using cloud computing to outsource the storage appetite of data management strategies and to reduce costs and resources. In addition is the need for data compressing and deduplication technology for back, recovery and archiving, crucial to limit the rapid data expansion.
CommVault® Solution
CommVault® software provides a unified platform with capabilities to manage and protect all data in databases and also provides customers a database-aware iDataAgent to manage and protect business critical data in Sybase databases. The Sybase iDataAgent is part of a unified solution that manages and protects data more efficiently and effectively for business continuity and fast data recovery when a disastrous event occurs. CommVault's solution is also reducing costs with its included deduplication, encryption and compressing capabilities. Sybase software comprises several system databases and user databases that are backed up and restored by the Sybase iDataAgent. From the perspective of the Sybase iDataAgent, each of these database types is backed up and restored in the same manner. Sybase system databases contain information that Sybase needs to operate (e.g., uer database characteristics, file locations). User databases contain your enterprise's data, related administration files and transaction logs.
Data Protection Operations for the following data types are supported by the Sybase iDataAgent:
- Sybase system databases
- Sybase user databases
- Transaction logs