EMC Corporation, the world`s leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, has added Windows NT support to its EMC Data Manager (EDM) Symmetrix Connect product - delivering an extremely high-speed, flexible solution for backup and restoration of NT-based enterprise data.
According to Graham Prime, programs manager at the local EMC subsidiary, EDM Symmetrix Connect can now be used to backup centralised Windows NT data with no impact to server CPU cycles ("Server-less") or network bandwidth ("LAN-less"). "This enables applications and databases such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SAP R3 and Oracle to continue processing and servicing users across the network," he explains.
EDM Symmetrix Connect offers high-speed, consolidated backup and restore for Windows NT data, providing users with faster recovery time. Because it is consolidated in one location, users can locate and restore their data more quickly than with traditional stand-alone tape drive solutions.
"The rapid consolidation of widespread Windows NT data is having a sweeping effect on business. It provides ease of management and enables reductions in both administrative resources and capital costs."
Prime says many companies have already taken advantage of this trend, quickly building the infrastructure to exploit it, and use it to their benefit. "Now that the functionality is available for the Windows NT platform, we expect to see a rapid increase in demand locally."
According to an October 1998 study published by Dataquest, storage functions previously associated only with traditional data centre operating systems - data integrity, disaster recovery and backups while applications remain online - are now the top three criteria being demanded to support Windows NT environments.
"In many instances, the lack of advanced high-performance backup solutions has restricted the amount of storage that could be connected to NT servers. Through this announcement, EMC now provides very high-speed EDM Symmetrix Connect backup and recovery for consolidated Windows NT data," comments Prime.
EDM Symmetrix Connect enables customers with large volumes of data stored on EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems to overcome the performance restriction imposed by traditional backup methods. It provides backup for terabytes of information on multiple Symmetrix systems at hundreds of gigabytes per hour, exponentially faster than possible over the IP network.
Through tight integration with EMC business continuity software such as TimeFinder and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility, EDM Symmetrix Connect can perform backups operations with absolutely no impact to the production environment.
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EDM is a centralised, high-speed, high-capacity open systems backup and restore solution comprising unique EMC software, hardware and professional services. EDM configurations include: 1) EDM Symmetrix Connect, providing "server-less" and "LAN-less" (direct disk-to-tape) backup and recovery of Symmetrix-resident Windows NT data and very large UNIX databases at hundreds of gigabytes per hour; 2) EDM Symmetrix Path, providing open, "LAN-less" backup and recovery of large UNIX and Windows NT databases at server-channel speeds, including Symmetrix- and non-Symmetrix-resident data (host-resident data can reside on the host or in non-EMC storage devices and be backed up by EDM Symmetrix Path); and 3) EDM Enterprise Network, an online network-based EDM solution for simultaneous backup and restore across the network for all major UNIX operating systems as well as Windows NT, Novell NetWare, IBM OS/2 and others.
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world`s technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software and services. The company`s products store, retrieve, manage, protect and share information from all major computing environments, including UNIX, Windows NT and mainframe platforms. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. For further information about EMC and its storage solutions, EMC`s corporate web site can be accessed at http://www.EMC.com.