Webinar: Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality
Data Backup, Archiving & Disaster Recovery October 2011
1. Managing Backup, Archiving
&
Disaster Recovery
A Complete & Integrated Solution for Data Recovery
Mohammed Zaheer Ahmed
Marketing Manager
Technology and Engineering Services Division
AQESA
October 2011
2. Introduction – About Us
AQESA is part of the Ali Zaid Al Quraishi & Brothers Co. (AZAQ) Group,
which was founded in 1958, and has grown to become one of the
leading commercial groups in Saudi Arabia. It has long-established
associations with major corporations in the U.S., U.K. and Japan, and
distributes their world-recognized brands throughout the Kingdom.
AZAQ average annual sales turnover exceeds $320 Million USD
AQESA is a exclusive distributor for Unitrends in Saudi Arabia.
Unitrends offers a family of affordable integrated all-in-one on-premise
backup appliances that support disaster recovery via disk-based
archiving as well as electronic vaulting to private- and public-clouds.
There are about 2,000 installed units in North America. While
Unitrends have been selected by sophisticated organizations such as
FedEx, NASA, UPS, Lockheed, and the US Postal Service, our mission
is to provide these same enterprise-class Rapid Recovery solutions to
small and medium-size organizations.
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3. Introduction – About Us
Unitrends has the ability to do what is called a bare-metal restore. A bare-
metal restore is taking an operating system and moving it to different
hardware. With most operating systems the drivers become an issues.
Unitrends can substitute the drivers for you, making for a quick restore.
Unitrends does not charge customers according to the number of
machines to be protected, nor do they charge you for protecting different
operating systems. Unitrends’ pricing is based on the amount of data that
you wish to protect and how many of the protection snapshots you wish to
keep
VMware does a superb job of handling high availability. VMware has some
good disaster recovery offerings on its platform, but these suffer unless a
great deal of unused WAN bandwidth is available and is vulnerable to
human error, viruses, and the like. In terms of data protection, VMware has
designed their platform such that third-party data protection tools are
needed. Unitrends offers a suite of appliances that are designed to both
handle disaster recovery in a WAN-optimized fashion taking into account
the constraints of bandwidth found at our customer’s sites and that are
designed to support data protection at both the VCB and the virtual
machine level.
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4. Single Pane of Glass
Managing backup, archiving and disaster
recovery is all about one pane of glass.
.
With an easy to use drag and drop interface, we've
created a revolutionary grid-based tool for managing all
aspects of data protection
No more switching from
window to window to
manage your entire backup.
Our ground-breaking
"iseGrid" technology allows
an unlimited number of
appliances, operating
systems and clients to be
managed behind one pane
of glass.
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5. Single Pane of Glass
No ghosts needed; the past, present and future at your fingertips
Quickly change views to see the past, present and future status of backup jobs. You
can view current jobs on the present tab, scheduled jobs on the future tab and
weekly backup statuses on the past tab.
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6. Single Pane of Glass
Minimize Risk. Archive Now.
Scheduled archiving and immediate archiving enables long-term storage of data
to many different types of removable media, including: tape drives, eSATA, USB
devices and removable disk drives.
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7. Single Pane of Glass
Green means go.
A color-coded, 7 days at-a-glance backup and vaulting statuses help save you
time so you can focus on what really matters.
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8. Flexible Scheduling
Schedules are the foundation of continuous data protection.
It's easy to create a flexible schedule with our drag and drop interface.
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9. Flexible Scheduling
Novice or not, wizards are cool.
Expecto Patronus! Step-by-step a scheduling wizard is here to create on-
the-fly or scheduled backups to help you protect your data.
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10. Flexible Scheduling
It's been months since I have done that!
We understand scheduling isn't something managed day-to-day. We
created a user-friendly interface so creating a new calendar, scheduling
the different types of backups and adding a particular type of client to that
schedule is as easy as riding a bike.
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11. Flexible Scheduling
You can do whatever you like.
Through a top down workflow, our scheduling grants fine grain control to
design the calendar and the schedule any way you can imagine.
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12. Scalability
Grow, Baby, Grow!
Unitrends appliances are monitored and managed through a single,
intuitive, pane of glass, web 2.0-based user interface. This enables you
to buy only the appliance you need and yet grow the amount of space
on your appliance as your business grows.
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13. Scalability
We Don't Need Any Stniking Network Congestion
Trying to do large backups across the entire network of an enterprise
means that you're going to swamp the network. Plus, your backup
window is going to grow as the amount of data you protect grows. With
Unitrends, you simply put one or more backup appliances on each
network segment and voila!
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14. Scalability
No Forklifts Allowed
The problem with most backup solutions is that periodically you have to
"forklift" a bigger system into place and throw away your old system.
Not with Unitrends. Need more backup, archiving or disaster recovery?
Just add another appliance.
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15. Scalability
Is It Going to RAIN?
There are all sorts of fancy
words out there for all of this -
"RAIN" (Redundant Array of
Inexpensive Nodes), "Grid",
and the like. The technology is
great – but the benefits are
insanely awesome – letting
you buy an enterprise-class
data protection solution
without the enterprise-class
price or headaches as your
business grows.
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16. Easy Recovery
You don't need a fourth dimension to go back in time.
No need for a time machine here. We
allow restoring up to the latest possible
time or to a specific point-in-time, making
it possible for you to the be the hero.
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17. Easy Recovery
It's called Rapid Recovery for a reason.
With Incremental Forever, only a single master or full backup is needed
which makes backup windows shorter and improves network efficiency,
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18. Easy Recovery
Let's be exclusive.
Through a drag and drop interface, it is easy to exclude files and folders
from the restore operation. You can also exclude files and folders based
on a file pattern.
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19. Easy Recovery
Finding time is easy.
The restore pane is made up of a recovery point, a recovery point time
table and a graphical representation of a 24-hour day. With this graphical
interface, it's simple to identify the intervals of time from which to restore.
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20. Graphical Reporting
Because reporting doesn't have to be boring.
Available for alerts, backups, devices, failures, license capacity, restores,
SQL Server data and vaulting, our reports are colorful, informative and
easy enough for any luddite to understand! .
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21. Graphical Reporting
Stay shallow or dive deep.
Detailed reports containing all raw data and a summary of that data are at
your fingertips if you choose to dive a little deeper. For your viewing
pleasure, this data can even be sorted by multiple columns!
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22. Graphical Reporting
Get that music off your computer!
With capacity reporting, it's easy to view the space being used, the
licensed capacity associated with a system and the sizable relationship
between appliances, systems and clients.
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23. So much more
The fun doesn't stop there.
In addition to an incredibly easy to use interface, Unitrends provides next-
generation data protection designed from the ground up as a simple, all-in-one
solution for small, medium and enterprise businesses.
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24. So much more
No Limits LicensingTM.
Imagine ultimate backup freedom with Unitrends No Limits Licensing™
that boasts no per client fees, no per agent fees, no per operating system
fees, no per application fees and no new release fees. Pretty cool, huh?
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25. So much more
Adaptive Deduplication™
Adaptive Deduplication™ is a hybrid data reduction technology combining inline
compression with post-processing data deduplication that adapts dynamically to
multiple factors.
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26. So much more
Customer support is dazzling.
We're absolutely committed to dazzling customers with our friendly,
knowledgeable and eager-to-assist support staff. In fact, we've decided to
sit support right beside our developers should any immediate issues
arise.
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27. So much more
Yeah, we protect that, too.
Unitrends uses a common D2D backup and recovery engine for providing
protection for over 100 different versions of operating systems,
hypervisors and applications.
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