How does ECX reduce stress for IT teams?

In this day and age, every business generates and harvests data. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Nvidia, and Tesla are the kind of companies that are leaders of the data economy. They are harvesting data to its full extent and continue to find ways of growing their business via data. Worldwide data expected to hit 175 zettabytes by 2025, representing a 61 percent compound annual growth rate according to IDC

People often forget that a lot of this data is simply made up of copies of existing data. Why do copies of data exist? For multiple reasons, the most common reasons include: 

• Backup and Compliance
• Disaster Recovery
• Reporting
• Analytics
• Test & Development
• DevOps &
• Training

To put the scope of how much data is copy data in context, IDC has found that 60 percent of storage is dedicated to managing copies of data--at $55 billion per year collectively.

The most easily observable problem with copy data is there is too much of it. Data reduction capabilities, such as compression and deduplication, are helping reduce the burden of copies, copy data still causes many organizations unwanted stress and costs - the core reasons for these being:

• Storage growth
• Security vulnerabilities
• Compliance risks and 
• Shadow IT

So, what can companies do to manage and harvest data better to reduce the stress and costs associated with Copy Data? 

Free Data Protection and Recovery Review

Can you trust in your current data protection and recovery solution?

We appreciate, especially in the current climate, that all organizations want to ensure they have fully functional and cost-effective data protection and recovery solutions that when required can quickly and efficiently recover vital data. 

The data protection and recovery review from Catalogic provides a simple set of 12 questions that can be quickly answered to gauge the current state of your data protection environment.

From the questionnaire we will provide a defined output via a PDF report that can be utilized within the business to identify prioritized recommendations to determine the steps necessary to get your data protection environment fit for the future. 

Here at Catalogic we are different to the usual data protection players in the market. 

We offer a fully software-defined solution that enables us to support any block storage behind our backup repository, ‘vStor’, which has data reduction included as standard. 

vStor can also offload to tape and Cloud based S3 storage to ensure more cost-effective targets are available for longer term retention. 

We take a fully consultative approach and ensure customers’ needs are understood and solutions are built around those needs, because out of the box doesn’t fit everyone. 

Our team has been making exciting progress with DPX including the addition of backup and recovery support for SAP HANA databases in DPX 4.6.1. We are also in the process of fully re-defining the user experience within DPX, moving to a more modernized HTML user interface. It’s exciting times here as DPX continues to evolve. 

If you want to learn more about our Data Protection and Recovery Review, take the questionnaire and have us generate the free report or discuss more about Catalogic DPX feel free to get in touch via wbush@catalogicsoftware.com
Thanks for reading and take care. 

vStor – The beating heart of our data protection solution

At the heart of every data protection solution is the repository where the data the data protection solution is protecting resides. The beating heart of Catalogic's data protection solution DPX is the vStor.

Our vStor backup repository is a flexible and scalable backup target that frees you from expensive backup appliances and vendor lock-in, unlike many of the current market players. 

Built on open source components, vStor can use any block based storage without restrictions. It supports data reduction in the form of both deduplication and compression for efficiency and provides point-to-point replication for DR or remote office support. 
vStor can be architected to meet your needs. We support physical severs and virtual servers and any form of block storage. 
If you are interested in a dedicated appliance we also offer 3 pre-built vStor appliances – 24TB, 48TB and 100TB. See more details on those here