Rapid data growth and application uptime requirements are impacting and shrinking backup windows. Combined with aggressive recovery objectives, users are facing an increasingly difficult choice between maintaining more recovery points and frequent and extended disruption of production systems for backup.

To avoid making this choice, users are increasingly turning to storage array-based snapshot technologies to provide a balance between frequent recovery points for rapid recovery and limited production disruption. Such approaches however, are often disjointed, vary with the storage platform and require too much customization and maintenance for each application type. The resulting backup copies are difficult to track, manage and move off to secondary tiers for long term retention or Disaster Recovery.

CommVault® software leverages native snapshot capabilities built into storage systems to create and manage application consistent, validated, point-in-time recovery copies for rapid recovery. The result is near-instant backup copies with minimal impact on the production systems.

CommVault® software's Singular Information Management® approach, allows use of a consistent method to create and manage snapshot backups as standard recovery copies. SnapBackup can be used across a wide variety of storage arrays, without any customization or scripting. This uniform and seamless approach extends to the creation of multiple tiers of backup data on different snapshot-based disk backup targets or even tape-based backups and archives.

Data in all of the tiers is application-consistent and can be recovered directly to the production system from any tier easily and quickly with minimal administrator intervention.

CommVault Simpana® SnapBackup delivers the following capabilities to simplify and protect your environments:

• Near instant, consistent, application-aware backups to eliminate the backup window
• Transparent integration with native storage array-based snapshot backups, managed from a single GUI using a consistent set of policies.
• Application consistent and validated recovery copies allow rapid and reliable recovery thus reducing reduce end-user impact in case of downtime or disaster
• Built-in multi-tier approach (including tape) for near-instant backup, and fast granular recovery direct from any tier, with minimal impact on production system.
• Automated, policy-based aging of data across successive storage tiers

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