Building a better data protection strategy means software and people (page 1 of 2)

Being well prepared for contingencies, that could happen at any time makes sound business sense. But why is it, that backup, disaster recovery, and high availability are invariably treated as three separate problems, each requiring a different set of solutions from numerous sources and vendors? Especially when you already have the foundation in position for a sound business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.

Approaching each of these issues individually does not solve the larger business problem, which is the requirement for continuous operations, 24x7. Building on your existing strategy is easier than you would think. With scalable options, such as the virtualisation platform, adding to your protection infrastructure is much more manageable than it was a few years ago.

Building a business continuity infrastructure includes the three elements of data protection, high availability and disaster recovery. Each element is an extension of the previous one - but each is as important as the next.

Without adequate backing up of corporate data, there is no way to recover from disaster and get the business up and running again. Building on the data protection solution companies can build their solution and scale the explosion of data and the necessity to operate 24x7.

Although backup has been around for a long time - fundamentally it has not changed much. However, everything else about the way a business operates has changed. Information is not just text-based, but increasingly includes voice, image, and video components as well. File sizes are much larger. More data is being kept online. And with the advent of the Internet and global networks, most data centres must operate 24x7. So a solution that was acceptable 5 years ago just doesn't work any more, and certainly will not work in the future. So how are companies dealing with the problem?

VERITAS is the number one vendor of data protection, high availability and disaster recovery software for UNIX, Windows, and Linux operating systems, and is continually improving and expanding support for many other operating system platforms. VERITAS also offers cross-platform support required by the trend toward heterogeneous platforms and server consolidation.

With more efficient network backup solutions, creating higher bandwidth together with application solutions that only backup altered data, this means you do not have to take the application offline for routine storage management tasks, like backup.

VERITAS offers organisations the industry's most comprehensive, hardware-neutral solutions for data protection and accessibility. Applications are best managed and protected with solutions that understand the complex structure for storing and retrieving data.
VERITAS has teamed up with leading enterprise application vendors like Oracle, Sybase, Informix, HP, IBM and Microsoft to integrate VERITAS solutions with their applications.

Our solutions actually capitalise on your application's inherent design to bring you database-aware solutions backed by the vendors themselves.

VERITAS Software's built-in and add-on solutions for environments are powerful, seamless, and vendor certified. VERITAS solutions deliver complete data integrity and manageability, and lower costs, in the UNIX, Linux, AIX, Windows 2000 and NT environments.

Since every enterprise has a unique business process, the backup and disaster recovery tools must be flexible enough to adapt to your business model. It does not matter what systems you are currently running, VERITAS is able to meet your growing requirements.