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Unied

data protectionwith

HP Data Protector

Business white paper

Leverage on-premise, cloud, and hybrid

backup and recovery strategies


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Table of contents

3 Introduction

4 Are legacy approaches meeting current challenges?

4 The deployment approach that ts your data protection strategy

5 Protect your data on premise

5 Protect your data in the cloud

6 Enable unied data protection with HP Data Protector

7 Conclusion
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IntroductionToday, organizations face the challenge of dening a successful

data protection strategy that addresses 100 percent of information.

Doubling in volume every 12 to 18 months, growing stores ofunstructured information such as documents, email, audio and

video les, and structured and semi-structured databases, are

driving IT organizations to determine where to back up data so

it is eectively and eciently protected, and how to recover it in

a timely manner. The task involves not only protecting a set of

highly diverse information, but the requirement to manage the

information for lower risk exposure. Figure 1 illustrates four key

issues organizations are facing as they seek to improve their data

protection strategy, including:

Explosion of data growth form, source and volume

Proliferation of data across multiple locations (servers,

workstations, mobile devices)

Ever-shrinking recovery windows

The increase in regulatory risk and compliance obligations

Each of these key areas present unique challenges, and are causing

IT organizations to reevaluate how to approach data protection,

particularly regarding the optimal location for data backup: on-

premise and/or within the cloud.


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Explosion of

big data

Data

everywhere

Shrinking

recovery

Increased

regulationsData doubling every

12-18 months

New, unstructured data

types to manage

Storage growth is

outpacing IT budget

Mobile, virtual, cloud

joins physical

Mobile endpoints are

exposed

67% of users have three

or more computing

platforms

Always-on applications

and users

Users have high uptime

expectations

Business continuity

moves to forefront

Escalating regulatory

and higher volumes

Find the needle in

haystack

Utilize corporate

information assets

Net-Net: Growing IT burden and risk exposure

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This paper explores a unied data protection approach of both

advanced on-premise and remote osite cloud-based data

protection technology in a single oering. A hybrid strategy with

HP Data Protector enables organizations to take advantage of an

easy-to-use and powerful on-premise data protection solution that

simultaneously leverages the security and scalability of cloud-based

data protection, resulting in a reduced TCO (total cost of ownership)

for critical data protection needs.

Are legacy approaches meeting currentchallenges?Traditional approaches to data protection have been to either

back up all information forever, or protect only some information,

some of the time. Keeping information indenitely, although a

more conservative approach, creates an enormous administrative

burden that is weighed down with cost and complexity. The latter

approach, which does not address 100 percent of information, is one

way to reduce infrastructure costs and operational strain on the IT

departmentbut exposes the business to undue risk.

The aws of these approaches a re only compounded as IT

environments evolve. This evolution may include the growth of

backup-related infrastructure as new data protection solutions are

introduced, and the addition of more complex infrastructure and

media, such as tape. Data centers have also been evolving from

strictly physical to heavily virtualized environments, operating

beyond the standard 9-5 workday to meet a 24/7/365 business

demand.

Organizations are struggling to contend with the massive growth

of information seen in their data centers. T he growth of as much

as 80 percent annually for traditional content types*, including

unstructured data, strains IT resources and bandwidth between

remote sites and data centers. Adding to the burden, the inability

of legacy approaches to scale and continue to meet the SLAs of the

business creates additional roadblocks.

Legacy-based approaches to data protection and t he challenge

of managing new and diverse environments and data t ypes can

encumber IT sta with complex operational requirements. When IT

must focus on never-ending backup schedules, new media types,

and the fulllment of osite storage requirements, there is less time

available to support strategic business initiatives.

*(Source: Gartner, Dataquest, ID # G00208772, November 2010)

The deployment approach that ts yourdata protection strategyFor decades, IT organizations have tried to manage their own backup

operations. But eventually, they turned to external storage facilities

vaulting partners, and other service providers to help them manage

tape-based backup media. With the introduction of disk-based

backup, now a standard for many organizations, new options have

emerged as to where backup data can be stored.

With shrinking IT budgets, limited st a, and the desire to reduce

operational or administrative strain, organizations are also turning

to cloud-based backup as a key component of their IT strategy.

Cloud-based backup can minimize the cost of dedicated backup

infrastructure (such as tape) and improve data protection SLAs.

For organizations with complex needs, local on-premise data

protection may be required to satisfy various requirements, while

cloud-based data protection may be more suitable for other

applications. The combination of robust on-premise data protection

capabilities and the scalability of the cloud deliver exibility and

choice for a constantly evolving IT landscape.

Deciphering which approach is best for your organization and where

you should protect your data should be based on both business and

technology requirements.

Figure 1. On-going issues with data protection


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servers, core operating system platforms, physical and virtual

environments, and mission-critical applications.

Automate data protection using a policy-based approach

On-premise data protection solutions simplify an organizations

ability to apply data protection policies in dynamically changingIT environments. These solutions can detect changes in the

environment and apply policies, which are congured to protect

existing systems, to new applications and systems. This proactive

approach eliminates the IT pain of discovering protection gaps after

a disaster.

Protect your data in the cloudMany CIOs today are considering the use of cloud services as a

top priority and key to their IT strategy*, to help with the costs

associated with managing and extending the capabilities of their IT

environment. Cloud-based data protection solutions oer access

to remote, highly scalable, managed service-based operations.Leveraging the cloud for backup and recovery helps reduce costs

related to a dedicated backup infrastructure, oers budget exibility

with a pay-as-you-protect cost model, improves the operational

impact of your IT sta, assists with compliance initiatives, and

enables a form of disaster recovery. In some cases, for smaller IT

environments, cloud-based backup helps avoid additional backup-

related capital ex penses altogether.

The type of data organizations typically back up to the cloud can

be a combination of business-critical application data (databases,

email) and most commonly, le-based data.

*(Source: CIO Magazine, March 2010, Article: CIOs Must Fit the Cloud Into IT

Strategy).

Reduce backup and recovery costs

Economies of scale within the provider environment often make

cloud-based data protection a more cost-eective solution, when

compared to traditional on-premise backup solutions. This is

principally true because it removes many of the capital expenditures

related to dedicated infrastructure and allows a pay-as-you-protect

nancing/budgeting cost model.

With a cloud-based data protection ser vice in place, organizations

can avoid the unpredictableand often hiddencosts of managing

the growth of backup-related storage resources. For this reason,

choosing a cloud service provider who oers a predictable rate cansimplify IT budgeting.

Protect remote oces

The use of a cloud-based managed service can alleviate the need

for dedicated IT sta or dedicated backup-related infrastructure in

organizations struggling with the management of remote oce data

protection. Organizations can limit the use of their internal WAN

(wide area network) bandwidth, and enable any remote oce or

remote server to interact securely and directly in the cloud, without

straining corporate network resources.

Protect your data on premiseSeveral factors inuence an IT organizations decision for a data

protection solution, with the most important factor being its

business objectives for recovery. Many organizations choose to

manage their own data protection environment on-premise simply

because their business requirements for recovery are immediateand stringent. For instance, they may need to know that they can

recover data in a timely and predictable manner to meet a desired

recovery objective.

Ensure business continuity

In todays highly competitive, always-on and instant-on world,

business disruptions can be costly and risk-laden. In many

situations, the speed of application recovery denes the

survivability of a business. As a result, IT is facing more stringent

recovery SLAs. On-premise solutions can provide high-speed

application recovery in seconds or minutes at worst, and down to the

exact point in time.

On-premise data protection solutions oer advanced functionality

for both backup and recovery. IT can retain control over their backup

operations and leverage advanced technology options, such as

disk-based backup, storage array integration (with snapshots), and

advanced storage eciency through deduplication. For example, an

on-premise data protection solution that is deeply integrated with

storage arrays enables an administrator to recover at any point in

timedown to the second in some cases. This keeps mission-critical

data, such as transactional databases, email, and highly sensitive

information protected and available at all times.

On-premise data protection solutions often provide tight integration

with mission critical applications, such as databases and enterprise

messaging platforms to enable application-aware backup andrecovery. The organization can also protect critical applications,

such as transactional databases, from the initial protection

process (and when the application changes, addition of new tables,

instances, etc.) through the recovery process (down to the second

and with a ne level of granularity), to meet stringent business SLAs

and ensure business continuity.

Protect large, global and remote oces

Organizations with complex, heterogeneous, and distri buted

environments may have requirements that drive them to use an

on-premise enterprise data protection solution. For instance, a

large global organization may have thousands of remote oces

that need to be protected centrally and reliably. On-premise data

protection solutions can provide exible options to eectively

meet varying protection needs of dierent remote and branch

oce environments. In many cases, existing infrastructure can be

leveraged for rapid cost-eective protection for very small remote

oces that were not protected due to lack of IT expertise. The data

from the remote oces can be consolidated into the central data

center for disaster recovery and other business purposes, such as

eDiscovery and compliance events.

Centralized management of the entire backup and recovery

infrastructure provides IT the complete protection, control, and

visibility over the total distributed environment, including le


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Business need:

Remote, economical data protection for organizations

with constrained IT sta and budget

Traditional shortcomings:

Osite tape storage is slow and costly

Remote data protection deployment and management

requires dedicated IT sta

Business impact:

Data unavailable while osite tapes are retrieved

Inscreased overhead requires $$ to be diverted frommore important projects

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Meet compliance obligations

Many IT organizations struggle with existing and emerging

compliance requirements. However, leveraging an IT service

provider that ensures the highest levels of physical/logical security

possible provides peace of mind that data can be protected in

a remote facility. The right provider can help a business meet

traditional disaster recovery osite requirements and adhere topotential compliance-related regulations. In addition, by protecting

data osite, organizations can improve long-term retention

capabilities.

Leveraging the cloud can alleviate the need for additional tape-

based infrastructure within a data center. Many organizations

still require the ability to send data osite, to satisfy regulatory

compliance. With cloud-based data protection as an option,

organizations can leverage ecient replication technology and

cloud services to provide that same type of osite retention with

lower costs and administrative burden.

Manage risk with cloud-based servicesAs protection service levels become more stringent, CIOs are now

tasked to protect more with less a nd be able to recover faster.

This is causing many organizations to seek solutions that limit

the liability of unpredictable Service Level Agreements (SLAs). In

contrast, others are looking to managed backup service providers

who are accountable for service-level deliverablesincluding

recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO),

and up time. Additionally, many organizations are seeking

improvements in monitoring and management. With a cloud-based

data protection solution, an organization can potentially gain access

to proactive monitoring and around-the-clock operational support

to manage potential vulnerabilities and detect all possible threats.

Storing data remotely with a trusted cloud-storage service

provider automatically provides an osite copy of your data.

This immediately helps organizations meet disaster recovery

requirements, at a fraction of the cost.

Enable unied data protection with HPData ProtectorThe latest release of HP Data Protector extends backup to the cloud,

bringing on-premise and secure hosted backup into a single exible

oering. It enables organizations to take advantage of the reliabilit y

performance, and security supported by premise-based backup

with the scalability, cost eciency, and access of cloud-based data

protection.

HP Data Protector provides centralized management for 100 percent

of your data protection needs: on-premise, in the cloud, as a hybriddeployment that leverages the strength of each option.

With more than 44,000 customers around the world, and nearly

half of the Global 500, HP Data Protector on-premise backup

continues to provide the most advanced and extensive support for

operating systems (OS), hypervisors (server virt ualization), critical

applications, and storage-related infrastructure.

The new cloud backup capability of HP Data Protector leverages the

14 global cloud data centers operated by Autonomy, an HP Company.

The data centers currently manage over 50 petabytes of customer

information worldwide in a highly scalable solution operated 24x7

by dedicated operations sta. The most secure private cloud in

existence, its global data and eDiscovery processing centers are SafeHarbor-certied, and audited to Statement of Accounting Standard

number 70 (SAS 70 Type II). All protected data is mirrored across

multiple data center locations and information resides in a secure

multi-tenant scalable data protection cloud service.

With Cloud Backup, organizations get the freedom and exibility

through one-click protection managed directly within the HP Data

Protector Console, removing the challenges of a traditional tape-

based approach for osite backup. In addition, administrators

can manage restores from anywhere, leveraging a simple to use

web management interface that allows self-service restores to be

initiated for both physical and virtual system data.

With HP Data Protector, organizations gain access to a remote

pool of scalable data protection resources, powerful self-service

recovery, and the assurance of a fully managed, secure data

protection service. These capabilities ultimately enable a reduced

TCO (total cost of ownership) while providing instant and exible

remote cloud-based recovery.

Figure 2. Typical approach to osite data protection


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Restore

Backup

Multi-server deployment

Autonomy cloud

mirrored data centers

DP cell manager

TCP/IP

Agent

Agent

Agent

Standardizedprotection policy

limited

ConclusionHelping organizations more eectively address the challenges of

protecting their information, HP Data Protector oers the industrys

rst truly unied data protection solution. Whether it is on-premise,

in the cloud, or a hybrid strategy, HP Data Protector enables

organizations to leverage advanced data protection capabilities

within, and securely beyond, the boundaries of their enterprisedata center. HP Data Protector delivers more exibility to make

the decision as to how and where to protect data, and the ability to

rene recovery point and time objectives, based on the criticality of

the information being protected.

About AutonomyAutonomy, an HP Company, is a global leader in software that

processes human information, or unstructured data, including social

media, email, video, audio, text and web pages, etc. Autonomys

powerful management and analytic tools for structured information

together with its ability to extract meaning in real time from all

forms of information, regardless of format, is a powerful tool forcompanies seeking to get the most out of their data. Autonomys

product portfolio helps power companies through enterprise search

analytics, business process management and OEM operations.

Autonomy also oers information governance solutions in areas

such as eDiscovery, content management and compliance, as well as

marketing solutions that help companies grow revenue, such as web

content management, online marketing optimization and rich media

management.

Please visit autonomy.com to nd out more.

About HPHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful

impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The worlds

largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that

spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT

infrastructure to solve customer problems.

More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at hp.com.

Figure 3. Leveraging cloud-based backup for osite data protection


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