EMC Delivers Simultaneous UNIX & NT Backups with "NAS" Or "SAN" Path Selection
Announcement posted by EMC 02 Aug 2001
Boosts Backup and Restore Performance for Integrated NAS and SAN Environments
EMC Corporation today added a new dimension to its networked information storage leadership with announcement of significant new enhancements to EMC Data Manager (EDM(tm)), the industry's fastest and most scalable backup and restore solution for open systems.
Today's announcements deliver 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(tm) HighRoad(tm) software, InfoWorld Magazine's Storage Product of the Year.
"More than 70% 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," said Paul Frith, Managing Director, EMC Corporation, Australia and New Zealand. "Through enhancements to EDM, new backup and recovery applications and integration with key backup enablers, EMC will continue to deliver the most comprehensive solutions to address the complete spectrum of our customers' recovery time objectives."
Bi-lingual NAS Backups
With wide-scale implementation of multiple host types within today's NAS and SAN environments, bi-lingual backup and restore for UNIX and Windows NT files and file systems has become essential. EMC today announced EDM bi-lingual support, enabling 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.
Celerra HighRoad Support
EMC also announced EDM support for EMC Celerra HighRoad software, enabling EDM to determine the optimal route for data delivery - either NAS or SAN. This advanced feature bypasses the local-area network 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.
Known as the technology that effectively ended the debate between NAS and SAN by combining the best of both environments, EMC Celerra HighRoad fuses the industry-standard file sharing of NAS with the high-performance
information delivery of a SAN, creating one unified storage network.
About EDM
EDM is a centralised, high-speed, high-capacity open system backup and restore solution comprising unique EMC software, hardware and professional services. EDM configurations include:
* 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;
* 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
* 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.
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About EMC
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.EMC.com <http://www.emc.com/>.
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EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Celerra, EMC Data Manager (EDM) and EMC Celerra HighRoad are trademarks of EMC Corporation.Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Today's announcements deliver 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(tm) HighRoad(tm) software, InfoWorld Magazine's Storage Product of the Year.
"More than 70% 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," said Paul Frith, Managing Director, EMC Corporation, Australia and New Zealand. "Through enhancements to EDM, new backup and recovery applications and integration with key backup enablers, EMC will continue to deliver the most comprehensive solutions to address the complete spectrum of our customers' recovery time objectives."
Bi-lingual NAS Backups
With wide-scale implementation of multiple host types within today's NAS and SAN environments, bi-lingual backup and restore for UNIX and Windows NT files and file systems has become essential. EMC today announced EDM bi-lingual support, enabling 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.
Celerra HighRoad Support
EMC also announced EDM support for EMC Celerra HighRoad software, enabling EDM to determine the optimal route for data delivery - either NAS or SAN. This advanced feature bypasses the local-area network 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.
Known as the technology that effectively ended the debate between NAS and SAN by combining the best of both environments, EMC Celerra HighRoad fuses the industry-standard file sharing of NAS with the high-performance
information delivery of a SAN, creating one unified storage network.
About EDM
EDM is a centralised, high-speed, high-capacity open system backup and restore solution comprising unique EMC software, hardware and professional services. EDM configurations include:
* 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;
* 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
* 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.
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About EMC
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.EMC.com <http://www.emc.com/>.
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EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Celerra, EMC Data Manager (EDM) and EMC Celerra HighRoad are trademarks of EMC Corporation.Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.