EMC RecoverPoint Spearheads New Information Protection Software

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Storage Networking World -- EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today introduced EMC RecoverPoint(TM), new enterprise-level continuous data protection software. In addition, EMC announced enhancements to its flagship backup and recovery software -- EMC Legato NetWorker(R) -- and new software for backup reporting and analysis -- EMC Backup Advisor(TM). The continued investments in software and numerous recent announcements in networked storage hardware demonstrate EMC's commitment to delivering new, enterprise-capable technologies for solving today's demanding information protection needs. Now, customers can strengthen and simplify the management of their information protection environment, achieving optimal recovery point and recovery time objectives.

Many traditional approaches to information protection are necessary; providing help but not entirely eliminating complexity, rigidity, performance degradation and cost, leading to challenges in recovery, management and compliance. Today's new and enhanced software offerings bolster EMC's approach to helping customers blend their backup, recovery and archiving technologies. This new approach is driven by advanced software and disk-based technologies and is helping customers achieve faster recovery and retrieval of data and applications. As a result, customers can get back up and run faster in the event recovery is needed from a variety of events, with more flexibility, in a more simple and affordable way.

Mark Sorenson, Senior Vice President, EMC Software, said, "Customers have been looking for better ways to optimize their information and application recovery investments. EMC RecoverPoint enables organizations to better leverage current technologies driving greater flexibility to a customer's information protection strategy. In addition, we continue to make investments in our backup and recovery software, addressing new customer needs like security and backup analysis. Today's announcement further validates how EMC is setting the industry agenda for the evolution of information protection."

Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "EMC has been one of the very few to have the hardware, software, and services necessary to provide customers the full spectrum of data protection requirements -- including disaster recovery, business continuity, and data protection. With the addition of the new CDP offering, EMC enhances its already powerful story."

Additional comments by analysts and customers are provided at the end of the release.

New Continuous Data Protection Offering -- EMC RecoverPoint

Designed for enterprise data centers, EMC RecoverPoint provides immediate recovery to any previous point in time, within a customer-defined window of protection. Unlike many existing continuous data protection solutions, RecoverPoint provides application-aware data protection to key business applications on a variety of operating systems. In addition, RecoverPoint offers coordinated recovery of groups of related applications, enabling organizations to restart applications from the same point in time, providing for simpler and faster return to normal operations.

RecoverPoint captures all writes to production environments as they occur and writes them in parallel to an allocated recovery storage space. Because data is captured whenever a change is made, a possible recovery point is available for every instant in time. Customers are protected from data loss caused by logical corruption and server hardware failures. RecoverPoint supports heterogeneous storage arrays, applications and operating systems, protecting existing storage investments.

German Rodriguez, Infrastructure Manager, for EMC customer H-E-B Mexico, said, "With 15,000 partners and suppliers, we generate a vast amount of data necessary to keep our business running. It is critical that we are able to recover this data when we need to, quickly, without data loss, and without disruption to our overall business. Inventory control and distribution management are the keys to our success. Even a small amount of data loss in this area is unacceptable. We expect that EMC RecoverPoint will save us time and money, and will give us peace of mind -- knowing that we can turn back the clock and recover our applications as they existed at any point in time we choose."

Enhanced Backup-to-Disk, Usability and Security in EMC Legato NetWorker

EMC Legato NetWorker software protects data by simplifying and centralizing backup and recovery operations. The new release of NetWorker -- version 7.3 -- delivers important advances for customers who are concerned about escalating backup and recovery management costs, the speed of recovery and the risk of unauthorized data access. Increased backup flexibility, including enhanced retention policies and target sharing, adds even more value to NetWorker's proven and leading backup-to-disk solution. The software's new graphical user interface enhances usability for easier management. Finally, enhanced security features -- like 256-bit AES encryption, enhanced authentication and network address translation firewall support -- reduce the risk of unauthorized access to critical business data.

New Backup Reporting and Analysis Tool -- EMC Backup Advisor

EMC Backup Advisor is a backup reporting and analysis tool that gathers information from the entire backup infrastructure (backup software, tape drives, backup server operating system, etc.) and presents it in a way that helps customers identify and rectify backup process and operational problems. With Backup Advisor, users can conduct advanced fault diagnosis, predict where problems are developing and see where the business is at risk in relation to meeting service level agreements (SLAs) and external regulatory data retention laws.

Availability

EMC Backup Advisor is immediately available and EMC RecoverPoint and EMC Legato NetWorker -- version 7.3 -- will be available later this quarter.

Through leveraging EMC's market-leading hardware, software and services for backup, recovery and archive, customers can increase performance of their infrastructure, achieve greater availability of data and applications, improve reliability and management of backups, improve speed and accuracy of recovery and provide quicker retrieval of data and applications in support of compliance and retention requirements. EMC has the most complete offering for backup/recovery and archiving. This offering includes tiered service levels for performance and recovery SLAs; software to automate the movement of information to more cost-effective storage media; and a complete service offering that makes it more achievable to assess, implement and manage a backup, recovery and archive environment. All of these capabilities are integrated with the range of databases, file systems and applications that run businesses today.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information management and storage that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.emc.com/.

EMC and Legato NetWorker are registered trademarks and RecoverPoint and Backup Advisor are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Additional Customer and Analyst Statements Customers

Douglas Bovie, Manager Infrastructure Management, Equant, said, "EMC Backup Advisor is an effective, lights out tool to manage and analyze our enterprise backup solutions. With the software's reporting mechanism, we can produce reports in a matter of hours, when it previously used to take us up to a week to produce. In addition, Backup Advisor's key analysis technology alerts us for low tape availability, downed drives, failed backups and backups that extend outside the SLA window. As a result, we have reduced our mean time to recover, allowing our backup experts to only spend time on issues at hand instead of manually checking all sites. Backup Advisor is a perfect addition to EMC Legato NetWorker, is simple to install, and provides a comprehensive overview of our organization's backup environment."

Analysts

Brian Babineau, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "EMC RecoverPoint offers the commercial and enterprise markets support for the broadest set of applications and operating systems enabling customers to increase the frequency of data protection operations. Inherently, this translates into faster data restoration times and mitigates the risk of any data loss. EMC has a tremendous opportunity to offer customers RecoverPoint as a complement to the company's mature and comprehensive data protection offerings."

Arun Taneja, Senior Analyst and Founder, Taneja Group, said, "EMC continues to drive its leadership position in overall backup-to-disk solutions with the release of EMC Legato NetWorker 7.3. The new release adds flexibility in retention periods, support for continuous data protection and enhancements to security features, all wrapped up in a new GUI that significantly enhances the user experience. In a nutshell, EMC is providing a complete solution for customers who are concerned about the effort it takes to manage backup and recovery, the speed of data protection and the risk of unauthorized data access."

John Webster, Founder and Senior Analyst, Data Mobility Group, said, "With the introduction of EMC Backup Advisor, EMC continues to take steps to better equip its customers with tools that help them achieve recovery point and service level objectives. Backup Advisor not only provides customizable reporting and predictive analysis for EMC Legato NetWorker, but also for other backup/recovery software including Veritas and IBM; a key differentiator for EMC."

Contact: Todd Cadley 843-881-3275 cadley_todd@emc.com