NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB)

The relentless explosion of data volumes has made information assets more valuable than ever before, but it has also escalated storage costs and increased corporate exposure to data loss. Server virtualization drives IT flexibility but makes data protection more complex and error prone.  While de-duplication has helped to reduce backup storage volumes, it leaves unanswered many data protection and recovery challenges.   Users must move beyond de-duplication to technology that solves multiple backup and recovery issues.  As defined by Gartner and ESG, key data protection challenges fall into three areas:

 

Backup Challenges                                               Recovery Challenges

• Reducing backup time                                     • Recovery takes too long

• Reducing impact on VM backups                   • Application recovery is too complex

• Limiting secondary storage utilization          • Recovery points are too far apart

• Improving backup reliability                           • Multiple tools needed

 

Management Challenges 

• Too many tools needed

• Single purpose devices

• Tiered management (disk/tape)

• Troubleshooting failed backups

 

Fundamentally Different

NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup revolutionizes backup for the new, virtualized world of IT.  It uses snapshots and block replication to make backups 95% faster, 99% more reliable, and 90% smaller on disk - for any primary storage environment.  NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup ties Syncsort and NetApp software with NetApp high performance disk storage offering customers revolutionary change in data protection. It combines "zero impact backup", data deduplication, instant restore, data replication and support for disk, tape, and physical and virtual servers.  It's flexible enough to work in heterogeneous storage environments while consolidating backup processing to a single user interface.

 

The Service We Provide

Integral Specialist Services work in partnership with Syncsort to provide a solution which combines the very latest software tools and professional expertise to deliver an answer to the challenges shown above, which is second to none.   Syncsort is a global software company that helps the world's most successful organizations rethink the economics of data.  Syncsort provides extreme data performance and rapid time to value through easy to use data integration and data protection solutions. With over 12,000 deployments, Syncsort has transformed decision making and delivered more profitable results to thousands of customers worldwide.  NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB) goes beyond de-duplication to resolve all critical data protection needs. NSB is the fastest, easiest to use and most resource efficient data protection solution for physical and virtual servers running in heterogeneous environments.

 

NSB is Simple, Integrated and Proven and available for the first time at a competitively priced bundled solution.

Simple - Easy to use.  Easy to deploy.  Simple to maintain.  Simple to order and deliver.  Simple to expand when needed.

Integrated - A seamless combination of storage and software for both local and remote data

protection.  Includes integrated data de-duplication, replication, application awareness, and VMware

integration for recovery.

Proven - Proven, field-tested results in hundreds of customer sites.  Syncsort leverages and adds value to core NetApp technologies.

 

Our Experience

Most of the customers we work with are at differing stages of transition from a physical environment to a virtual environment.  They quickly realise that a traditional approach to backup and recovery of data is simply not adequate enough for the demands and challenges of a virtualised environment.  This has therefore led to the requirement of a more flexible solution with enhanced (all encompassing) services to ensure the rapid recovery of data from virtual machines, without the negative overhead to processor, network bandwidth and throughput issues.  

NSB virtualisation rapidly recovers, migrates, clones or provisions a full server to a virtual machine significantly less time when compared to more conventional methods of back up.

Having listened to our customers about the challenges they face on a daily basis, and having looked at the services and solutions that are available in the market today, we strongly believe that the NSB solution is the most integrated and comprehensive solution available that address all of those challenges and more besides.

 

Benefits

A Revolution in Data Protection for the Virtual Age

 

Backup Benefits

Eliminates Backup Windows - NSB shrinks backup times by 90%, effectively eliminating the backup window.

The Lowest Impact VM Backup - NSB reduces backup impact by 90% or more through a block-based incremental backup model, maximizing VM density and the ROI of virtualization projects.

Data Reduction and Deduplication - Provides up to a 95% reduction in storage footprint.

99.9% Backup Success Rates - NSB drives operational costs down while providing far better protection.

 

Multi-tiered Recovery

Four Levels of Recovery - File restore (via catalog); Application recovery; Server recovery (via BMR and Instant Virtualization); Full site recovery with NetApp SnapMirror (included)

Instant Data Access - NSB can recover any size data volume in five minutes.

Instant Virtualization - Server virtualization can be used for rapid recovery of entire applications.

Multiple Recovery Points - NSB can backup systems as often as every 15 minutes

 

Ease of Use/Management Benefits

Single Pane of Glass - One interface for backup and recovery operations minimizes operational overhead.

Complete End-to-End Data Protection - NSB provides a single, central catalog and tracks snap shots across all tiers of storage including Tape.

Standard Hardware Infrastructure - The NSB storage platform can be used as both secondary and primary storage, unlike competitive offerings whose storage platforms are proprietary and can only be used as secondary storage.

 

•1.     Maximize Your Virtualization investment

• Increase virtual machine density - NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup eliminates backup windows, network bottlenecks, and virtual machine contention. With backup impact eliminated, more virtual machines can coexist on a virtualization host, increasing return on investment.
• Accelerate migration - through rapid virtual machine creation from any physical machine.

 

•2.     Save Hardware Costs with Host and Target Data Reduction

• Achieve excellent secondary storage data reduction without impacting resources or applications - by combining efficient Syncsort BEX data reducing backups with target-side NetApp FAS deduplication.
• Lower your costs for disk acquisition, power, cooling and data center floor space - by maximizing data reduction.

 

•3.     Superior Data Protection

• Achieve backup success rates of 99% - as the result of "Zero-Impact Backups". Backups can be run multiple times a day, improving Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Achieve transparent Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) - with operations integrated into a single backup job, reducing management overhead. Facilitates long-term archiving and additional data protection.

 

•4.     Rapid Recovery without Compromise

• Meet the most stringent Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) - because snapshots can be quickly mounted as read/writable volumes for rapid business continuity, and data recovery (including application data).
• Gain numerous additional recovery options - including:
• - BEX virtualisation which rapidly recovers, migrates, clones or provisions a full server to a virtual machine
• - BEX bare metal recovery
• - Site to site recovery with NetApp Snap Mirror
• - Multi-faceted integration application recovery
• - Searchable file and folder level recovery

 

•5.     Easy Administration

• Manager your backup and recovery enterprise from a single pane of glass -with a single sophisticated catalog that controls all data protection tasks and policies.
• Consolidate to a single data protection platform - while still offering the benefits of disk-based snap-shots and replication.
• Keep your existing primary storage infrastructure - and have complete buying flexibility as you expand it.
• Gain integrated reporting and resource management across the board - for back up to disk, tape, multiple recovery options and for physical, virtual and mixed environments.
• Backup agents send data directly to NetApp Storage - without the need for an additional server in front of disk targets, removing an entire layer of architectural cost and complexity.

Case Studies

 "The combination of NetApp and Syncsort is an optimum match for our requirements.  Not only did we solve the backup time issue, but also achieved a very high level of backup data security."

CiV (Partner of Citibank).

 

Costs

NSB is Simple, integrated and proven and is available for the first time at a competitively priced bundled solution.

For all estimates, please contact us for a copy of our NSB qualification assessment form (we will require only a small amount of information) in order to provide you with an indicative price.

 

Our Guarantee

We guarantee that NSB is the most comprehensive integrated extreme data protection and storage solution on the market today.  In order to assess your suitability for NSB, we would be happy to demonstrate this claim and the core benefits to you via either a webinar or 'closed' workshop session.  Please contact one of our team for further information.