NetApp have announced integration with CommVault, Quest and Mimosa. CommVault, Quest and Mimosa will integrate with NetApp’s data protection and storage efficiency solutions to provide customers with a unified solution for increased performance and affordability.
Archiving important business data is more than making sure that the information is retained and meets strict government compliance regulations.
With customers paying closer attention to their IT bottom lines, it is imperative that their archive solutions operate efficiently and cost-effectively, without sacrificing performance. Archive solutions support the backup and disaster recovery of critical archive data can save data for long periods of time.
By allowing NetApp’s data protection and storage efficiency capabilities to integrate with their respective archive solutions, CommVault, Quest and Mimosa will provide customers with archiving platforms.
These archiving platforms leverage NetApp’s unified storage architecture, enabling joint archive customers to support multiple classes of storage and protocols within a single architecture, driving lower operating costs, higher performance, and less physical storage.
Furthermore, customers can harness components of the NetApp Data ONTAPoperating system, including deduplication, thin provisioning, and FlexVol, gaining storage-efficiency solutions that result in lower power, cooling, and space requirements and creating a more efficient archive environment.
In addition, NetApp deliver cascading Snapshot copies, a data protection approach that provides end-to-end protection for the archive application stack.
To enable cascading Snapshot copies, NetApp’s lineup of data protection solutions, including Snapshot, SnapVault, SnapManager for SQL, and SnapMirror, run in concert to automate and synchronise backups and replication across the archive database, index, and content repositories.
Synchronisation enables data consistency across the multitiered application that is critical to recover the archive environment. As a result, customers can increase application availability, reduce backup downtime, and improve recovery point objectives and recovery times of the archive application and content.
The solutions from CommVault, Quest and Mimosa support archiving for major messaging, collaboration, and unstructured data, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, file data, and Lotus Notes.
Each of the vendors also supports NetApp SnapLock WORM (write once, read many) storage, allowing customers to lock down this data to address compliance, information governance and legal discovery requirements.
According to CommVault, as a result of joint development with NetApp, they will deliver customers data management solutions built on CommVault Simpana software and NetApp storage solutions.
CommVault and NetApp jointly offer customers a more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective way to optimise storage for data protection and archiving, and also improve data access and availability in any storage environment.