Data Sheet: S2100-ES2 Enterprise Data Protection Platform
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 SEPATON Outlines Best Practices for Making Enterprise Data Protection PurchasesMARLBOROUGH, MA – August 16, 2011 – Selecting the right data protection platform can be a complex and risk-prone process. Many enterprise IT professionals rely solely on Proof of Concept (POC) or side by side comparisons of systems in their own data center to make this selection. SEPATON’s Dennis Rolland, director of advanced technology, Office of the CTO, recommends that POCs should be just one part of an overall evaluation process. Tweet this: #SEPATON outlines how to make an enterprise data protection purchase http://bit.ly/nVZMNJ “A test environment must emulate as closely as possible the production environment,” said Rolland. “A well-designed POC process ensures the optimal data protection solution is deployed, eliminates the need for costly unplanned upgrades, and optimizes investments by helping to quantitatively determine the best vendor solution for the customer’s specific environment. For large, data intensive enterprises this means testing performance and capacity based on realistic volumes and on real data that has not been scrubbed or modified.” IT managers should go beyond the generic POCs designed to demonstrate a vendors products’ value proposition and consider the following 10 recommendations: · Form both a testing team and an advisory team that represents the requirements of end users. · Conduct an initial discovery of what’s in your environment with each vendor to ensure the POC testing plan is representative of the specific infrastructure. · Test large volumes of data to capture an accurate assessment of how the data protection system will actually handle the high capacity and high performance requirements. · Compare vendors in a way that puts pressure on them to push performance to the full requirements of the enterprise—and then some to ensure it will meet the inevitable growth needs. · Consider the ability to modularly expand the solution as storage and retention needs grow which includes throughput, FC and IP connectivity, and storage. · Ensure the system can accommodate storage pooling so data can be segregated, multiple backup applications can be managed on a single system and new backup technologies can be introduced without disruption to existing operations. · Test the system’s ability to securely erase expired data and recapture capacity automatically according to the user’s policy settings. · Test the reporting and dashboard capabilities to ensure you can monitor the status and efficiency of backup, deduplication, replication, and restore operations. · Make sure the vendors are able to work as an extension of your IT staff with experience, professionalism and responsiveness. · Use a decision matrix to evaluate how each of the systems that will be tested compares when tested against the business priorities. For more details, a white paper titled, “Ten Steps to Right-Size Your Next Data Protection Purchase” is available for download here: http://go.sepaton.com/2011_WP_10StepsPOC.html About SEPATON, Inc. Founded in 2003, SEPATON is the only company in the world that designs and implements data protection solutions specifically for large, data-intensive enterprises. SEPATON’s fourth generation data protection platforms deliver the industry’s highest levels of scalability, performance, and reliability. These powerful, massively scalable, and extensible solutions are deployed in the largest enterprises in the world, enabling them to meet their service level agreements for data backup, restore, and disaster recovery. SEPATON has its headquarters in Marlborough, MA and has international offices in London and Beijing. For additional information call 866-SEPATON or visit http://www.sepaton.com. # # # SEPATON, S2100, DeltaRemote, and DeltaStor are registered trademarks and ContentAware and DeltaScale are trademarks of SEPATON, Inc. All other brand and product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. Contact: |
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