Data is pouring into the enterprise at an ever-increasing pace, and the threat landscape is expanding just as rapidly. Meanwhile, IT faces a monumental challenge: protect a growing body of data in an increasingly complex environment while controlling the budget and IT staff engagement. IT organizations need a data protection strategy that addresses each of these issues head-on—a strategy with a foundation in powerful simplicity. Consider the following top three requirements for backup and recovery that’s simple, cost-effective and modern. As data grows at a rapid rate, it’s primarily coming from applications, and more specifically cloud applications, which are proliferating across an increasingly diverse infrastructure.
In 15 months, 80% of all IT budgets will be committed to cloud solutions. 1 It’s also been reported that a quarter (25%) of total application workloads will be running in the cloud by year’s end, and by 2021 it will increase to 44%. 2 The traditional approach to backing up and managing data has been to purchase point products for specific use cases—physical servers, virtual machines, archiving, deduplication, disaster recovery, and so on. Each point product comes with its own user interface, set of policies, unique capabilities, index, and set of copies to manage, which further contributes to data’s explosive growth and prevents data from being shared across solutions for better usage and compliance. In fact, as many as 60% of IT executives and personnel believe they have access to less than half of their organizations’ data.
3 Meanwhile, cyberattacks have become the norm and one of the leading causes of outages. And yet, 31% of CIOs and IT professionals admit to not being prepared for an attack. 4 To make matters worse, business users have zero tolerance for downtime. As a result, IT organizations struggle to meet aggressive Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), never mind protecting data from falling into the wrong hands should an attack occur. As IT is faced with balancing the data protection budget against exponential data growth, an increasing number of business requests for that data, and addressing a growing number of security concerns, you’re probably wondering: is it even possible to satisfy these seemingly competing demands, maintain the IT team’s sanity, and prevent the CIO’s budget from imploding? It is—if you take a step back and consider what it really takes to address backup, recovery and data management challenges efficiently and cost effectively. Requirement No.
All data stored with Azure Backup is billed per the backup storage rates listed above, for the duration that the data is kept with Azure Backup. However, increasing retention does not impact the software price for protected instances that you pay. Note that you must have the latest Azure Backup agent installed on the machine to ensure this.
1: Simplify data protection To start, you must forget the old way of deploying multiple point solutions to address specific use cases. You need to eliminate complexity by simplifying the purchase, deployment, management and support of your backup environment. That means being able to use your preferred hardware vendor. And you should have options when it comes to deployment. The solution should be available as a certified reference design or as an all-in-one appliance that simplifies installation and configuration. Adding to the simplicity delivered by a scale-out backup and recovery solution is one that supports your data management needs in a single console for your entire environment – from an on-premises data center to the edge, to the cloud, and even to SaaS environments. The architecture should cover the entire spectrum of data copy use cases—backup, replication, disaster recovery, dev/test, snapshot management, archive, compliance, eDiscovery, and migration— ideally using a single solution that simplifies management and enables policy-based automation across all of the use cases.
Finally, when it comes to simplicity, your backup and recovery solution should save IT resources, not add to them. Here, policy-based automation, including the ability to automatically schedule jobs based on service levels or defined thresholds, in addition to points in time, will be of immense value.
Also, adding to backup and recovery simplicity should be the native support to manage and migrate data to, from and within the cloud, as well as between clouds. This will eliminate the complexity, and potential lock in, of cloud gateways and third-party migration products and truly free your business to make the infrastructure choices it needs to without limitations.
Requirement No. 2: Lower costs without sacrificing backup and restore performance As you optimize your primary and secondary storage infrastructure, deploying a backup and recovery solution that supports a scale-out infrastructure will reduce both hardware and staff expenses.
A scale-out infrastructure eliminates the need to purchase three to five years of compute and storage up front, instead enabling you to purchase only what you need today. In addition, a scale-out infrastructure puts an end to costly and complex forklift upgrades whenever you refresh the hardware. Another consideration is a solution that offers both source-side and target-based deduplication to eliminate backing up and retaining redundant data. This will lower storage costs while minimizing data management time. It’s also important to seek a data protection solution that supports the simplified movement of data across storage tiers – including tape and the cloud – based on policies that will align the value of the data with the cost of storage.
When it comes to disaster recovery, be sure to choose options that will reduce downtime costs and increase your availability. Having instant access to your applications and data by leveraging snapshot technology will improve business productivity and minimize the cost of an outage, especially if you take advantage of automated workflows. Providing self-service access to extended teams also helps you to lower your total cost of ownership as well as the burden on IT resources. Look for capabilities that allow you to set-and-forget your service levels using automated policies, so you can realize the data management efficiency your environment needs. Requirement No.
3: Realize value from modern backup and recovery A modern IT environment demands modern backup and recovery capabilities. These capabilities are developed to enable easier protection as your environment grows, simplify recovery procedures and minimize downtime in hybrid IT environments.
Nothing says modern more than today’s cloud architectures, which require a new approach. Scale-out infrastructures provide a modern way to ensure availability and predictable performance while simplifying your ability to dynamically scale with efficiency and choice. Modern backup and recovery solutions can also help you meet demanding recovery service level agreements (SLAs) for recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). These can be achieved using automated and orchestrated snapshots.
Finally, an index that spans your backup environment can enable you to quickly find and identify your data for more efficient recovery, discovery and compliance purposes. Knowing where your data resides, whether it is on an endpoint, in a remote office, in your data center(s), or in the cloud, will also help to future-proof your environment for quick access and recovery as your infrastructure evolves over time.
Bottom line: You need powerful simplicity Today’s hybrid IT environment requires a modern backup and recovery solution that will enable you to backup your data everywhere it lives and recover it to anywhere it’s needed. To achieve this, legacy backup tools and processes and point products with disparate policies and multiple copies must be replaced with a simpler, more powerful approach. Powerful simplicity is an approach to solving complex data problems in a comprehensive, but easier way. A platform that puts this approach into practice can enable you to implement a data protection strategy that simplifies IT operations, keeps the budget under control, and satisfies business demands, now and into the future—enabling you to have it all!
. eLearning Courses eLearning Courses Commvault Education Services offers a wide selection of individual courses as self-paced eLearning. These eLearning courses often include similar content to that of our classroom and virtual ILT courses, while others focus on a commonly used feature.
These courses are also available (via download) with a site license, enabling access for an unlimited number of users located at a single geographic location. Yet another cost-effective option that saves time and money by eliminating employee travel! Commvault Professional eLearning Package Description Commvault Professional eLearning Package provides you with access to the following 10 eLearning courses. CommCell Deployment and Configuration. Disk, Cloud and Deduplication. Tape Library and Media Management.
Storage Policy Management. Managing Servers and Server Groups. File Server Solution. Virtualization Solution. Security. Job Management. Monitoring Maintenance and Tuning Includes 12 hours of Commvault Virtual Lab (CVLab) time and includes Commvault Certified Professional V11 2018 Exam.
(No substitutions) Single User - 90 Day Access Registration by Region. CommCell Deployment and Configuration - eLearning Description Gain valuable knowledge about Commvault's Next Generation Platform and learn key steps for deploying a new CommCell® environment. This self-paced eLearning course presents the simple-to-use Admin console interface, its core setup, and navigation. This course reviews CommCell deployment requirements and uses the CommCell® console interface to install and configure the CommServe® server, MediaAgent, and index directories.
Registration by Region. Disk, Cloud and Deduplication - eLearning Description Acquire the skills to successfully store and protect your enterprise data using the Commvault® Disk, Cloud and Deduplication management process. This self-paced e-Learning course uses the CommCell® console to illustrate storage concepts and well-rounded initiatives for protecting data. With media animation, step-by-step procedures, and instructor-led demonstrations, you will learn how to:. Configure storage resource components to manage protected data within a CommCell environment.
Design a comprehensive Deduplication solution for both disk and cloud storage. Configure storage pools with Commvault's simple-to-use Admin console Registration by Region. Commvault V11 Passport eLearning Package Description Get all of these eLearning courses for one low price!
Tape Library and Media Management - eLearning Description Learn to successfully store and protect your enterprise data using the Commvault® tape library and media management process. This self-paced eLearning course dives into media management from a physical and logical perspective. Engaging lessons present comprehensive tasks to configure tape storage, manage media by groups, move media in and out of the library, and manage content on media.
Best Practices are on hand to offer insight on how to manage your tape library and media efficiently. Registration by Region. Storage Policy Management - eLearning Description Explore the concepts and design of Commvault® Storage Policies and learn about the lifecycle management rules for protecting all data in your environment. This self-paced course uses engaging multimedia tools that support diverse learning styles. It begins with media animation that highlights the key methods for how a storage policy works, where data is stored, and for how long.
This course then delves into Storage Policy configuration settings and provides an in-depth look at Storage Policy configuration including retention, deduplication, streams, data paths, secondary copies, and GridStor® Technology. Registration by Region. Managing Servers and Server Groups - eLearning Description Examine the methods to configure and protect client servers and the applications that reside on them. This self-paced eLearning course provides a conceptual overview of the Client tree structure within the CommCell® console.
Each lesson provides steps that are essential for configuring the client, agent, subclient settings, and client computer groups in your CommCell® environment. An instructor-led demo is also available to learn how to manage servers and server groups using the Admin console. Registration by Region.
Job Management - eLearning Description Develop a broad understanding of data protection, recovery, and scheduling, and review the advanced technologies used by Commvault® software. This self-paced eLearning course covers essential concepts regarding configuration and execution of data protection and recovery functions, including job types such as backup, auxiliary copies, synthetic and DASH Full, as well as job priorities.
Each lesson builds on previous topics so you gain a strong understanding of why and how to protect and recover your data. Registration by Region. Virtualization Solution - eLearning Description Discover in-depth concepts, design considerations, and various strategies for configuring both VMware® and Microsoft® virtual environments.
This self-paced course uses engaging multimedia tools that support diverse learning styles. With conceptual overviews, concise step-by-step procedures, and informative instructor-led demonstrations, you will learn how to:. Use Commvault's Virtual Server Agent (VSA) for both VMware and Hyper-V environments. Configure instances, backup sets, and subclients.
Back up and recover entire virtual machines, volumes, and individual files and folders To accommodate your learning experience, the Virtualization Solution course features advanced configuration using the CommCell® console and demonstrates daily operations with Commvault's simple-to-use Admin console. Registration by Region. Security - eLearning Description Learn valuable information on how to design and configure network typology settings and manage Commvault® data movement over production and backup networks. Acquire the knowledge to successfully secure your data and network environment with Commvault® technologies, encryption, and network control.
This self-paced eLearning course focuses on user and group security, the Commvault network and security design, and CommCell® configurations for firewall. Registration by Region.
Monitoring Maintenance and Tuning - eLearning Description Monitor all activity within your CommCell® environment with Commvault® software's built-in tracking and performance tuning capabilities. This self-paced eLearning course focuses on how to monitor the CommCell® environment using native monitoring tools and how to develop a strategy for improving data movement performance. With conceptual overviews, step-by-step procedures, and instructor-led demonstrations, you will learn how to:. Configure alerts and various reports to view relevant information. Use monitoring tools for both the CommCell console and Admin console. Implement techniques to measure performance tuning for efficient data. protection and recovery operations.
Configure stream management for backup to protected storage Registration by Region. EDiscovery Compliance Search - eLearning Description Master the concepts of Commvault's integrated Web-based Compliance Search tool and discover pertinent information for your investigation. This self-paced eLearning course presents an explanation of how to navigate through the Case Manager interface, how to build review sets, legal holds, and export sets, and how to use basic and advanced search techniques. Search teams will explore real world examples for e-mail and file search to strengthen their learning experience. This course also includes an eDiscovery Compliance Search Guide to supplement the educational experience.
This guide is in PDF form and can be downloaded from the Resources menu within the eLearning module. Registration by Region.