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BackupReportT enables any enterprise, regardless of the size and complexity of its storage network, to increase reliability while reducing data protection costs. It is the only storage intelligence solution to provide a consolidated view of backup activity across multiple servers, backup products, operating systems, and storage technologies.
As a result, BackupReport enables IT groups to:
- Ensure Recoverability - by effectively managing the exposure inherent in complex data protection infrastructures.
- Minimize Costs - by reducing the costs of configuring, staffing, operating, and supporting complex storage infrastructures.
- Audit Compliance - by documenting performance against enterprise storage policies, service level agreements, and legal requirements.
A modular approach to enterprise-wide reporting
Analysis and reporting capabilities are concentrated in three interrelated modules and delivered in standard and fully customizable reports. Administrators can initiate and view reports online or export information to HTML for automatic email delivery, and to Word, Excel, PDF, and other formats for easy access. |
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Benefits
For Back-up Administrators
- Saves having to comb through nightly logs of backup activity and error messages
- Helps prioritize daily activities around solving, rather than finding problems
- Maximizes what can be accomplished with existing backup resources
- Supports clear communication of performance, risk, and resource requirements
- Shifts focus to improving the backup environment and developing sound practices and service level objectives
For IT and Storage Managers
- Provides a consistent, system-wide view of backup activity
- Enables performance tracking against service level agreements and other requirements
- Uses a consistent methodology for evaluating performance over time
- Substantially lowers data protection costs by reducing staffing needs and optimizing the performance of existing resources
- Identifies the consumption of backup resources by user groups and allocates costs accordingly
- Adapts to infrastructure additions and deletions to improve efficiency and minimize risk to data
- Enables forecasting of resource requirements for accurate plans and justifiable budgets
- Helps develop and refine realistic best practices
- Reduces the training burden for backup staff
For Senior Management
- Enables performance tracking against internal policies
- Provides a consistent, enterprise-wide view of backup activity
- Supports public disclosure regarding the security of corporate assets to shareholders and external regulators
- Documents resource use and future requirements for enterprise-level planning
For Compliance Officers and Auditors
- Provides an auditable record of all backup activity
- Delivers objective data on the performance of the company's data protection efforts, regardless of platforms, products, or architecture
- Substantially reduces the costs of overseeing and measuring policy compliance
For Data Owners
- Confirms that data has been backed up according to service level agreement criteria
- Reveals how changes in behavior can improve the protection of data
- Objectively documents consumption of data protection services and their corresponding costs
- Identifies potential exposure from lost data
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Modules
Backup Reliablity and Diagnostics
Provides a consolidated view of backup activity and error sources by scanning a matrix of backup servers, clients, and targets across the enterprise. As it aggregates information from different backup products, BackupReport retains the source data and organizes the 1000s of error codes into standardized categories for easy review. All information is presented in a simple, color-coded visual interface to help administrators quickly assess problem areas.
Backup Resource ManagementT
Provides a consolidated view of the volume, impact, and source of data backed up over a specific time period. To improve performance, IT personnel can drill down on data volumes and transfer rates to identify throughput and load imbalances. BackupReport also analyzes and reports on downtime, failures, and throughput for tape libraries, drives, and tapes, while tracking underutilized tapes, the volume of current and expired data by tape, and tapes required for restores.
Backup Audit and Charge-Back
Maintains an auditable record of all backup activity for automatic charge-back to data owners. It also allows IT groups to comply with service level agreements, enterprise backup policies, and the guidelines of lawyers, accountants, and other policy overseers. IT staff can immediately see which departments consume the most backup resources, what the fixed and variable costs of resource consumption are, and how consumption and costs are changing over time. |
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