Short of a world-ending Eschaton epidemic of earthquakes, volcanoes, and floods like that coming in 2012, most data protection is simple: take everything and copy it
somewhere far enough away so that you’ll have it when you need it — in an
emergency. The challenge is how to do this in the most efficient and reliable
way.
Un-optimized wide area network-based approaches to data
backup are naturally limited by the performance of the WAN (wide area network).
Bandwidth limitations and network latency can make backup take much longer than
desired. For large remote offices with significant datastores, this can make
WAN-based backup impossible without significant costly WAN bandwidth upgrades. Deploying
WAN optimization solutions can help you protect more, recover faster, reduce
risk and save money.
Below we provide 10 reasons to deploy WAN optimization for
disaster recovery
10. Eliminate Backup
in Branches. By effectively leveraging the wide area network for backup or
replication of data in branch offices, you can save on the hardware, software,
and administrative costs of local backup, tape duplication, and manual offsite
transportation of tapes.
9. Reduce Costs.
Data streamlining deduplicates WAN traffic, reducing disaster recovery
bandwidth requirements by up to 95%, cutting your network costs significantly.
Also the elimination of branch backup brings massive savings for every office.
8. Reduce
Administrative Overhead. Using the WAN as your data transport mechanism
instead of tapes provides automated, reliable DR operations. No more time
wasted in the shuffling of tapes by IT staff (or non-IT staff for that
matter!).
7. Reduce Security
Risk. Eliminating tape transport and encrypting WAN traffic, coupled with
centralized storage and role-based administration, makes passing industry and
government regulatory audits much, much easier. No headline news about loss of
your confidential information.
6. Protect More Data.
By accelerating replication and backup up to 45x faster across the WAN, you can
now cover not just mission-critical data, but ALL the data across your
enterprise, while easily making your backup windows. This includes mobile
workers laptops too.
5. Protect More
Often. Faster DR on the WAN also translates into great improvements in your
recovery point objective (RPO), reducing the amount of time and data that could
have been lost since your last backup.
4. Recover Faster.
Restore data across the WAN instantly instead of waiting for backup tapes to be
found and delivered for an improved recovery time objective (RTO). Or better
yet, have all your data staged and ready to go in your remote DR site. Even
improve business continuity by having employees working productively from
remote or temporary locations after a site disaster.
3. Centralize Storage
or Move it to the Cloud. Whether you choose public or private cloud
storage, enjoy the resilience and economies of scale for reduced costs and fast
access from anywhere.
2. Make the Most of
Your Storage Investment. Get more from your current storage hardware and
software, and have the confidence of knowing that the solutions have been
qualified and certified for use with Riverbed.
1. Have Your DR
operations Play Nice with Your Business Apps. Use powerful quality of
service (QoS) capabilities to match your priorities, whether you want
replication to take precedence over other WAN traffic or vice versa, never slow
things down.
To find out more about the benefits of how Riverbed WAN
optimization solutions benefits DR, please visit http://www.riverbed.com/results/solutions/centralize_replicate/.