Recent disk technology improvements have made it possible to develop more efficient and cost effective backup solutions for most environments. EMC has developed proven, tested backup to disk solutions that will enable you to improve backup performance, application availability, and data protection.

EMC's integrated solution includes hardware, software, professional services, training, and documented best practices. With ATA disk technology, you gain faster backup and recovery, better data and application availability, and lower cost. In addition to supporting primary data stored on any storage platform, our solutions support a combination of ATA and fibre channel disk drives.

Since tape – based backup and recovery is one of your biggest challenges, EMC has focused on several key factors in designing a disk – based backup and recovery solution: better performance and reliability, ease of management, integration with various network architectures, addressing IT budget constraints, and a superior return on investment (ROI).

Key Benefits

With EMC, you can gain significant benefits including:

• Faster recovery – Restoring data from disk is not only easier, but up to five times faster than restoring from tape, allowing your business to be back in operation sooner.
• Faster backups – Backup performance is up to three times faster, which means that more predictable and consistent backups let you manage backup instead of backups managing you.
• Improved reliability, lower risk – Our disk – based solution offers built – in hardware redundancy, RAID data protection, and availability features that are not available for tape solutions while allowing you to eliminate the mechanical problems of tape.
• Simpler management – With B2D, you reduce the complexity and manual administration of tape while easily integrating with existing storage management tools.
• Increased application uptime – Faster backups mean smaller backup windows and less impact on application and system availability.
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) – Higher service levels, fewer data copies, and increased availability all help to lower costs while using disk reduces the continuing expenses of tape media and tape drives.
• Easier implementation – Your solution has been fully tested to function in your architecture, accelerating your transition to disk – based backup.