CA Research Report Sample

Organizations are challenged to keep pace with the volume of data maintained for recovery purposes. The capacity of data to be backed up makes it difficult to complete backup processing within prescribed windows. To accelerate backup and recovery, IT organizations have deployed disk in the backup data path—improving both performance and reliability of backup and recovery processes. Because recovery from disk is more rapid than recovery from physical tape, leveraging disk in backup/recovery improves recovery time objectives (RTOs), which are the time between an interruption in service and the time when the system is again operational. The retention of multiple backup cycles on disk can boost capacity requirements significantly, increasing hardware and management costs.

During this independent validation, ESG Lab confirmed that CA ARCserve Backup with deduplication provides flexible policy-based data deduplication technology, delivering dramatic disk capacity savings while offering data protection options optimized for both the type and value of the data protected. Given the cost-consciousness of IT organizations today, capacity optimization techniques such as data deduplication are very desirable.