EMC has announced significant new enhancements to EMC Data Manager (EDM), a fast and scalable backup and restore solution for open systems.
This announcement delivers two critical new EDM capabilities that address customers` need for high-performance and cost-effective information backup and restore within today`s large, complex network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) environments.
The enhancements include the ability to perform simultaneous NFS (Unix) and CIFS (Windows NT) backups, while maintaining all of EDM`s rich backup and restore functionality, and the ability to choose the highest-performance path - either NAS or SAN - for specific file backups. This advanced feature is achieved through EDM support for EMC Celerra HighRoad software.
"More than 80% of information storage will be networked within a few years, spelling major opportunity for vendors that deliver rich, high performance backup and restore for all information types," says Graham Prime, product marketing manager at EMC SA.
"Through enhancements to EDM, new backup and recovery applications and integration with key backup enablers, EMC will continue to deliver comprehensive solutions to address the complete spectrum of our customers` recovery time objectives.
"With wide-scale implementation of multiple host types within today`s NAS and SAN environments, bilingual backup and restore for Unix and Windows NT files and file systems has become essential. EDM bilingual support will enable customers to backup and restore both NFS (Unix) and CIFS (Windows) files as a single operation, preserving the specific file attributes associated with the various data types on today`s files servers," he adds.
EDM support for EMC Celerra HighRoad software enables EDM to determine the optimal route for data delivery - either NAS or SAN. This advanced feature bypasses the LAN to move large NFS and CIFS files directly from NAS-attached EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems over a high-speed Fibre Channel SAN to an EDM-managed tape device. EDM with HighRoad support offloads both file server CPU and network demands, offering increased performance for backup and recovery for large Celerra-based files when compared with local or network backup options.
"This channel-based backup method also allows multiple EMC Celerra systems to perform high-speed backup to a shared centralised tape library, therefore eliminating the need for dedicated backup resources for each NAS device and lowering the cost of backup and restore in large environments," Prime says.
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