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Automates high-performance backup and recovery with scalable data protection from disk or tape, to enable 24x7 business continuity while providing a compelling price/performance ratio. |
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Overview |
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| HP Data Protector Software automates high performance backup and recovery, from disk or tape, over unlimited distances, to enable 24x7business continuity and improve IT resource utilization. Data Protector Software responds to the pressure for lower IT costs and greater operational efficiency by offering acquisition and deployment costs which are 30 – 70 % less than competition. The license model is very simple and easy to understand, helping to reduce complexity. Extensive scalability and features for continuous backup and recovery operations enable growth with a single product. A superb solution, no other Software can integrate better with the HP market-leading line of StorageWorks disk and tape family of products, as well as with other heterogeneous storage infrastructures. As an integral component of the fast-growing HP Software portfolio, which includes storage resource management, archiving, replication, and device management Software, Data Protector Software also fully integrates with the HP OpenView management solutions, allowing managing data protection as an essential element of an overall IT service. This solution offers the unique advantage of being able to source hardware, Software, and award winning service offerings from a single, trusted source.
Data Protector Software simplifies the use of complex backup and recovery procedures with the fastest installation, automated routine tasks, and easy-to-use features. The centralized multi-site management easily allows implementing multi-site changes, adapting in real time to changing business requirements. Appropriate for medium and large companies in any industry, Data Protector Software is the ideal solution to reduce IT costs and complexity while remaining reliable and scalable to grow from single server environments to the largest distributed enterprise infrastructures.
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What's new |
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- Zero Downtime Backup and Instant Recovery now supporting latest HP StorageWorks XP24000 Disk Array and Command View EVA Software, designed to respond to your needs for 24x7 application availability.
- Extended database support for online backup: HP Data Protector integrates with major databases and applications to enable application aware backups and restores, now also with Exchange 2007 (available September, 2007), Oracle on Windows 2003 (X64), and SAP on Windows (X64).
- HP Data Protector now offers extended platform support for Disaster Recovery: Recover your system with one of the six different Bare Metal Disaster Recovery methods, which are uniquely integrated into Data Protector Software. These methods allow you to boot from either CD, DVD, or tape and can be easily deployed with simple on-screen instructions.
- HP Data Protector's extensive support of all major operating systems, applications, databases, drives, libraries or disk arrays helps you create solutions that meet your unique and changing infrastructure requirements. Please see latest support matrices for further details!
- Support for VMware consolidated backup, providing you with an automated high performance backup and recovery solution for your virtual server environment. It is designed to simplify and centralize backup and recovery operations, including increased availability of critical applications in VMware environments and workload optimization for ESX Servers. Provides a solid and reliable data protection tool for your virtualization solution.
- Online backup and restore of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server for protection of your SharePoint Portal Server environment. Perform the online backup without shutting down the database and take advantage of the performance benefits, allowing for higher frequency of backups and higher data volumes. The easy recovery of data improves your access to information, so you get all the data needed without disruption of productivity.
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Features and Benefits |
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- Robust backup solution: Data Protector Software is designed for the most demanding 24x7 environments and offers automated high performance backup and recovery from disk or tape.
- Lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in enterprise backup: Data Protector Software delivers backup/recovery innovation, performance, and functionality at a much lower cost, up to 30–70% lower than competitive solutions. A simple and flexible license model includes the first year of support.
- No Software can integrate better with your HP environment: Data Protector Software is an integral component of the fast-growing HP StorageWorks Software portfolio, which also includes storage resource management, archiving, replication, and device management Software. HP offers the unique advantage of sourcing hardware, Software, and service from a single, trusted vendor.
- Easy to deploy and use: Data Protector Software is both easy to deploy and use. Installation is simple and has a fully-automated Software distribution of agent Software to all connected clients, including a centralized licensing facility that reduces complexity. Competitive solutions fail to deliver this level of automation.
- Reduced backup windows: Data Protector Software enables you to respond to the needs for 24x7 application availability, by integrating techniques to eliminate backup windows. These include Online Backup, Open File Backup, or Zero Downtime Backup (local and remote replication).
- Recovery of terabytes of data in minutes: Utilizing Instant Recovery, Data Protector Software meets the demands of the most complex enterprises for specific recovery time and recovery point objectives, and enables critical data to be recovered within minutes.
- Central management: Centralized multi-site management capabilities enable customers to automate routine tasks and easily implement changes. Simple wizards and clear navigation makes these management features easy to configure. In addition, role-based user rights can be defined so that responsibilities can be safely distributed.
- Unique virtual full backup: Industry-first virtual full backup reduces the time and resources needed to perform full backup. By using “pointers” rather than duplicating data, HP Data Protector Software improves tape utilization and provides heterogeneous data protection.
- Automated recovery of Microsoft Exchange databases: Instant, automated recovery of Microsoft Exchange databases offers continuous mail service during backup by combining Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array replication technologies, recovering terabytes of e-mail data in minutes, not hours.
- Data encryption: Data encryption using AES 256-bit for protecting sensitive information on tape and disk, enabling customers to comply with industry and governmental regulations. Provides seamless integration into Data Protector Software, offering transparent restore of encrypted data. Key management is simple to use, secure, and flexible.
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