EMC Avamar

Never back up the same data twice

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 Agenda

 Today’s data protection reality

 The usual answers
 Avamar overview
– How it works
– Flexible deployment
 Avamar solves customer
challenges
 Summary

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 Today’s Data Protection Reality

Pressure to meet the changing

needs of the business
 Data growth is immense
 Companies want more data protected
 Time required for backup is expanding
 Backup hampered by tape’s unreliability
and poor performance
 Virtual machines pose unique backup
challenges
 Increasing volume of data at remote
offices
 More data stored locally on desktops
and laptops

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 The Usual Answers

 Backup to tape, or stage to disk, and

then archive to tape
 Manually move tapes offsite for
disaster recovery

Traditional backup and recovery

 Inefficient and slow, ~200% of primary
data moved across the network weekly
 Tedious, multi-step recovery process
 Risks the loss or theft of unencrypted
tapes in transit
 Data is difficult to recover and leverage

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 Avamar Overview

Avamar Software Backup and recovery software with integrated

Agent-only global, source data deduplication
or deployed
on qualified,
industry-
 Reduces the size of backup data at the source—
standard before it is transferred across the network
servers
 Delivers fast, daily full backups using existing infrastructure
Avamar Data Store
 Reduces network bandwidth for backup by up to 500 times
Fully integrated
software/hardwar
 Deduplicates across sites and servers, reducing total
e offering backup disk storage by up to 50 times
 Cost-effectively stores daily full backups on disk—reducing
or eliminating the need for tape
Avamar Virtual
Edition for VMware  Ideal for protecting VMware environments, remote offices,
Avamar LAN/NAS servers, and desktop/laptop systems
server
deployed as
a virtual
appliance

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 Avamar: How it Works
Global, sub-file data deduplication

 Break data into atom (sub-file,  Send and store each  Avamar
variable-length segments of data) atom only once backup repository

O H H

H H
O
O H
O H H

H H
O
H H

At the source—Deduplication before data is transported across the network

At the target—Assures coordinated deduplication across sites, servers, and over time
Granular—Small, variable-length sub-file segments guarantee most effective deduplication

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 Avamar: How it Works
Simple example of global, sub-file deduplication

Data Remote Remote

 First Instance Center  Duplicate Instance Site 1  Modified Instance Site 2

EMC Avamar

Never Backup the Same Data Twice

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Only unique data A Data already backed up, New data segment
segments are B so only unique IDs stored identified and
backed up (20 byte pointers) E backed up
C
D

A B C D E

Deduplication server
(stored backup data)
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 Avamar: Real-World Results
Avamar daily full backups versus traditional daily full backups

Amount of Primary Amount of Data

Data Type
Data Backed Up Moved Daily

Windows file systems 3,573 GB 6.1 GB

Mix of Windows, Linux, and UNIX file systems 5,097 GB 11.7 GB

Engineering files on NAS (NDMP backups) 3,265 GB 24.2 GB

Mix of 20% databases, 80% file systems

9,583 GB 80.0 GB
(Windows and UNIX)

Mix of Linux file systems and databases 7,831 GB 104.2 GB

Source: EMC

While results will vary by data type and mix, Avamar can
dramatically improve backup performance and efficiency

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 Avamar’s Innovative Architecture

Avamar Server
Verified U.S. Patent No. 6,826,711
checkpoint

 Redundant Array of Independent

Nodes (RAIN) architecture
– Each server node includes CPU, memory,
and internal disk storage
Parity across – Provides high availability and fault tolerance
storage nodes across nodes
 Grid architecture for online scalability
and performance
 Daily Avamar server integrity checks

Utility and
 Data recoverability verified daily
spare node
 RAID protection from disk failures
 Available for Avamar software and
Avamar Data Store

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 Avamar’s Centralized Management

Policy-based, multi-site management

over existing network bandwidth
 Centralized management of multiple
Avamar systems
 Intuitive, web-based interface
 At-a-glance dashboards
 Capacity reporting and alerting
 Facilitates “set and forget” deployment
in smaller enterprises
 Improves efficiencies and streamlines
management in remote/branch offices
 Specialized management interface for
desktop/laptop clients

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 Avamar Server Deployment Options

Avamar Software Avamar Data Store Avamar Virtual Edition

for VMware
Avamar
VM

Avamar Avamar
VM VM

VMware Virtualization Layer

x86 Architecture

Resource
Pool

Software for industry- Fully integrated Single-node Avamar server

standard servers hardware/software solution running as a virtual machine
with single point of support (virtual appliance)
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 Avamar’s Flexible Deployment

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 Avamar Data Store

Fully integrated software/hardware solution

 Complete EMC backup, recovery, and disaster recovery
offering
– Avamar backup and recovery software with integrated source/global
data deduplication
– EMC-certified hardware built to order—fully configured and delivered
 Built-in high availability
– Avamar RAIN technology
– Spare node, RAID
– Redundant power distribution
– Redundant switches, NICs for automatic failover on user’s network
 Simplifies
– Purchase (single vendor, certified hardware)
– Deployment (minimizes onsite setup)
– Service (single vendor support)

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 Avamar Data Store

Flexible deployment options

 Avamar Data Store
– Scalable with up to 52.8 TB of deduplicated disk capacity
– Equivalent of up to several petabytes of cumulative traditional disk
or tape backup storage
– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times
– High availability and reliability with RAIN architecture, RAID, daily
integrity checks, and redundant power, switches, and NICs
 Avamar Data Store single node
– Supports 1 TB, 2 TB, and 3.3 TB licensable deduplicated storage
capacity configurations
– Equivalent of up to 114 TB of cumulative traditional disk or tape
backup storage
– Designed for easy deployment at remote offices
– Offers fast, local recovery without dependence on a WAN

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 Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware

Avamar server deployed as a virtual appliance

Avamar
VM
 Industry’s first deduplication virtual appliance for backup,
recovery, and disaster recovery
 Leverages existing ESX servers and storage
Avamar
VM
Avamar
VM
– Can use existing iSCSI, SAN, or DAS disk storage
 Replication (of applications and storage) eliminates
shipping tapes
VMware Virtualization Layer – Replicate between virtual Avamar servers and physical Avamar
servers
x86 Architecture  Facilitates rapid, cost-effective deployment and return on
Resource investment
Pool
 Supports VMotion for deployment flexibility
 Up to two Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware virtual
appliances per VMware ESX server for scalability

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 Avamar Data Transport

Avamar grid ESX server Existing backup Export deduplicated

server data to tape for long-
NetWorker/ term storage
Transport Transport NetBackup
server/
Node Node
storage  Policy-driven process
node exports and restores
Avamar deduplicated
SAN/LAN data to and from tape
VMware Virtualization Layer
 Searchable file-level
x86 Architecture
Tape catalog eases and
Resource
Pool
vault speeds restoration
Avamar backs up clients Replicates selected Avamar coordinates  Leverages existing
to Avamar server Avamar server data to export of data transport
data transport node replica through tape backup software
residing on ESX servers backup system (e.g., EMC
NetWorker)

Fewer tapes for lower costs—

up to 50 times reduction in long-term storage costs
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 Avamar Supported Operating Systems
and Applications

Client operating systems supported Application modules

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate  IBM DB2 9.1, 9.5, 9.7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise  IBM Lotus Domino 6, 7, 8
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2  Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010
Microsoft Windows Vista and XP  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0, 4.0, 5.0  Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005, 2008
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 on zLinux  NDMP (EMC Celerra with DART 5.5, 5.6)
Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 9.0  NDMP (NetApp Data ONTAP 6.5, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.1x.
7.2, 7.3.x)
Solaris 8, 9, 10, 10 x86
 Oracle 9i, 9.2, 10, 10g, 10gR2, 11g, 11gR2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8, 9, 10, 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10SP3 on zLinux
 Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x VMware infrastructure
 CentOS 4.x, 5.x  ESX 3.0.x, 3.5, 3i
 Debian 4, 5  vSphere 4
 Free BSD 6.2
 HP-UX 11.0, 11iV1, 11iV2, 11iV3
 IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 = ESX client operating system-certified using RHEL 4 client
 NetWare 6.5 (support within virtual machines depends on VMware support of
client operating system)
 Novell Open Enterprise Server OES SP2
 Oracle Enterprise Linux R5 No charge for client agents or
 SCO OpenServer 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7

application modules
SCO UnixWare 7.1.3

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 Avamar Solves Key Backup
Challenges

 VMware environments
 Remote office/branch office (ROBO)
 LAN/NAS servers
 Desktop/laptop

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 VMware Backup Challenges

Virtualization changes server, application, and information paradigm…

backup must evolve to deliver even greater consolidation and value

Old Paradigm New Paradigm

Physical environment: Low overall server Virtual environment: High overall server
utilization and plenty of bandwidth for backup utilization and little bandwidth for backup

100% 100%
CPU Utilization

CPU Utilization
80 80
% %
60% 60%
ESX server
40% 40%
Hardware
20% 20%
0% 0%
Shared physical resources
Server A Server B Server C Virtual Virtual Virtual
Server A Server B Server C

20% resource utilization 80% resource utilization

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 Avamar’s Optimized Backup for
VMware Infrastructure

Avamar deduplicates at the optimal location and level

of granularity
 Optimal location: Reduces data at the source
– Data deduplicated at VM guest or proxy server (source)
– Duplicated data never traverses congested shared physical resources
– Data moved during backup is reduced from ~200% to ~2% of primary data
weekly
– Deduplicates data globally across virtual machines and/or VMDK (virtual
machine disk) format files
 Optimal granularity: Sub-file, variable-length segments
– VMDK is one large file; any changes cause an incremental/full traditional
backup
– Fixed-length segment deduplication solutions fail due to frame offset
– Avamar efficiently moves only new, unique variable length data segments
 Ideal for the protection of VMware environments
– Delivers fast, daily full backups over existing virtual and physical infrastructure
– Enables greater server consolidation by eliminating backup bottlenecks
– Maximizes value from VMware
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 Avamar Solutions for VMware Infrastructure
Flexible, fast, efficient, and reliable backup and recovery

Avamar and VMware vSphere 4 integration

 Universal support for all vSphere 4 backup options
– Daily full guest- and image-level backups
 vStorage API integration
– Greater backup and restore flexibility
 VMware vCenter Server integration
– Single point of management within Avamar for all VMware backup
options

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 Avamar’s Optimized Backup for VMware
Infrastructure
Avamar efficiently protects virtual machines

Traditional moves ~200% weekly

Up to…
 95% reduction in data moved
VMware Virtualization Layer  90% reduction in backup times
x86 Architecture  50% reduction in disk impact
Resource
Pool  95% reduction in NIC usage

Avamar moves ~2% weekly

 80% reduction in CPU usage
 50% reduction in memory usage

All backups are stored as “virtual full

backups,” ready for immediate restore
VMware Virtualization Layer
Enables greater server consolidation
x86 Architecture
ratios without overtaxing CPU utilization
Resource
Pool

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 Avamar Backup for VMware Guests

 Avamar agent resides inside each

virtual machine
 Fast, daily full backups
 Deduplicates data within the virtual
VMware Virtualization Layer
machine, as if they were physical
servers
x86 Architecture  Moves minimal backup data
– Reduces resource contention and
Resource accelerates backups
Pool
 Provides file-level restore for
Windows, Linux, and Solaris
= Avamar Software Agent

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 Avamar Image-Level Backups through
Storage APIs

 Avamar agent resides on the proxy

vStorage API
virtual proxy server
Virtual Machines server with
Avamar agent  Fast, daily full backups
 Deduplicates within and across
VMware Virtualization Layer
VMDK files
Mount
x86 Architecture  Supports both file-level (Windows
Resource only) and image-level recovery
Pool

Avamar  Avamar replication provides

server
Physical server SAN disaster recovery for VMDKs
storage
= Avamar Software Agent

Avamar client software runs

on the proxy server

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 Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
Backup challenges and Avamar solution

 The “Achilles’ heel” of data protection

– More than 4 million remote offices in the U.S.
– Remote office data growing at more than 50% per year*
– Most back up to tape and move unencrypted tapes offsite
– Often unskilled, untrained IT staff at remote sites
 Avamar remote office/branch office backup is
simple, safe, and manageable
“Avamar enabled us to – Extend data center protection to the edge
reduce administrative
– Fast, daily full backups and one-step recovery through
support requirements by
80%, reduce backup
existing WAN/LAN links
windows by 90%, and – Avamar agent-only deployment for smaller offices (no extra
recover lost files and local hardware)
servers in minutes – Eliminate distributed tape management/infrastructure
rather than hours.”
– Mitigate risk involved with manually shipping tapes
— Mike DePhillip,
Backup Administrator, – Data encrypted in-flight and at-rest for security
Virginia Department
of Motor Vehicles
*Source: Gartner

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 NAS Filer Backup and Recovery Challenges

 Limited backup windows

– Daily full backups desired, but not feasible
 Limited backup and recovery performance
– Single filer controllers have limited resources and can
become a bottleneck
– Incomplete backups leave data at risk
 Limited network links and disk storage
– Redundant data limits performance of network/
infrastructure and requires more disk storage
 Impact on end users
– When backups exceed allotted window, end users compete
for the NAS resources (poor response, lower productivity)
 NDMP licenses
– Traditional NAS filers require expensive NDMP licenses to
support backup and recovery

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 Avamar NAS/NDMP Backup Accelerator

 How it works
– Avamar Accelerator uses NDMP to communicate to source NAS device
– Accelerator requests only modified data daily
– Accelerator performs source-based deduplication on modified data
 Only new modified segments are sent to Avamar Data Store
– Source and global deduplication occur at Accelerator
 Avamar’s NDMP backups are ready for immediate recovery
– Avoids time-consuming task of restoring weekly full, plus daily incremental, backups
 Fast, efficient daily full backups for EMC Celerra and NetApp Filers

NAS device LAN LAN/WAN Avamar

(EMC or NetApp) Data Store
Avamar NDMP
Accelerator

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 Avamar Optimized Backup for NAS Filers

Before Avamar  Eliminates time-consuming, traditional

full NDMP backups
Weekend Weekend
– Daily deduplicated full backups
Full Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Full – Up to 10-times faster than traditional
Incre- Incre- Incre- Incre- Incre- NDMP backups
mental mental mental mental mental
 Fast recovery from full backup image
– Eliminates hassle of recovering from last
After Avamar good full and subsequent incremental
backups
 Flexible recovery
Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily
Full Full Full Full Full Full Full – Restore full file system or single file to
Avamar client or NAS device
– Allows flexible disaster recovery solutions
 Cost-effective disaster recovery
– Backup data is encrypted
– Easily replicated offsite through existing
WAN bandwidth

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 Desktop/Laptop Backup Challenges
and Avamar Solution

Avamar Desktop/Laptop
 Puts power in end-users hands
– Eliminates Help Desk for restoring
data to desktop or laptop
– End users restore their data anytime,
End-user initiated anywhere
restore – Self-managed restores
– Document-level search engine
– Multiple language support
 All the benefits of Avamar backup
– Data deduplicated at the source
– Daily full backups—up to 10-times
Windows or Mac OS X
faster
– Minimal impact on PC and network
Avamar Data Store resources during backup

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 Avamar’s Unique Value

 Deduplicates data at the client (source)

– Fast, daily full backups through existing infrastructure
 Deduplicates data globally
– Reduces required backup disk storage by up to 50 times
 Fast, single-step recovery
– Eliminates hassle of recovering last good full and subsequent
incrementals to reach desired recovery point
 Recoverability verified daily
– Daily server integrity checks; data recoverability verified daily
 High availability
– RAIN architecture and replication—no single points of failure
 Centralized management
– Streamlines administration and management of remote backups
 Flexible deployment options
 Complete solution from EMC
– Backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and data deduplication
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 Avamar Transforms Backup and Recovery

 Global data deduplication defuses

the explosion of backup data
– Fast, daily full backups through
existing networks
– Backup disk storage reduced by up to
50 times
 Alters the fundamental economics
of disk versus tape
– Accelerate shift to disk as primary
medium for backup
 Key element of EMC’s next-
generation backup portfolio

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 EMC Services for Avamar
Derive maximum value

Consulting Services
 Align service levels and Reference Architectures with business requirements

Implementation Services
 Minimize risk, accelerate implementation, and speed time to value of new
technologies

Operational Assurance Services

 Post-implementation operational best-practice knowledge transfer
 Performance optimization and tuning
 Process recommendations for improvement
 Training recommendations

Residency Services
 Fill missing skill gaps with Avamar services professionals—typical contract
three or more months
 Tailor best-practice recommendations, knowledge transfer based on in-depth
understanding of your environment

Designated Support Engineer

 Senior support resource resolves product support issues quickly

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 NetWorker and Avamar Integration

How it works
NetWorker
 Integrated client is a standard feature of NetWorker
 NetWorker represents the Avamar Data Store as a
deduplication node
 Deduplication is enabled through NetWorker
Data Clients Metadata
Management Console
 Save process gathers metadata and sends it to the
NetWorker server and data to the deduplication node NetWorker
 On recovery, required deduplication data is requested,
and full dataset is restored at client Metadata
Management Server
Console

NetWorker
Avamar NetWorker
Storage
Data node
Deduplication
Data Store
node

Disk, VTL,
Tape

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 Data Protection Advisor
Unified monitoring, analysis, and reporting

Unify—See—Act
 Automatically collect data from across data
protection infrastructure
 Transform disparate data into new insights,
actionable information, and service-level
agreement statistics
 Make better, faster decisions to meet service
level agreements, correct issues, and drive
efficiency

Payback typically 12 months or less

 Reduces costs with automation and new
insight that drives efficient use of people and
infrastructure
 Improves compliance, lowers risk with
Single view for data protection greater visibility into service-level agreement
management, including backup recoverability statistics
applications, replication, and  Minimizes complexity with a single,
continuous data protection (CDP) integrated view across the environment

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 EMC Data Domain and Avamar
Retain, replicate, recover

Deduplicate everything Never back up the

without changing anything same data twice
Simplify backup, archiving, and disaster Revolutionize your backup by moving less
recovery with easy integration across workloads, data to solve your toughest VMware, NAS,
infrastructures, and backup software and remote-office backup challenges

Data Domain deduplication Avamar deduplication

storage systems backup software

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 USE CASE

Mecklenburg County
Backing up NAS Filers through the Avamar NDMP Accelerator

“The Avamar system

has been absolutely
bulletproof since it was
fully implemented, it’s
part of our strategy to
reduce overall costs
and provide more
efficient public services
—advantages that can’t
be over-emphasized in
today’s economy.
— Jason Girad,
Storage Engineer

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 USE CASE

St. Peter’s Health Care Services

Backing up a VMware infrastructure

Before Avamar
 Data center redesign focused on server consolidation
and virtualization
 Concern about traditional, tape-based backup in
VMware environment
 Backup windows strained; physical resources
overburdened
“Avamar provides a huge
time and cost savings
for backup of multiple With Avamar
virtual machines.”
 Deployed agents within virtual machines
With Avamar, we can
centrally manage all of  95% reduction in data moved
our backups, and we
also gain the ability to  90% reduction in backup times
rapidly restore data
down to the file level.”  Major reductions in NIC, CPU, and memory usage
— Curtis Damhof,
Network Manager,  Centralized management and control
St. Peter’s Health Care Services

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 USE CASE

Global Industrial Manufacturer

Backing up a VMware infrastructure

Before Avamar
 Struggling to meet backup, recovery, and reliability goals
across extended enterprise
 Lengthy backup windows caused by increasing data volumes,
threatening network performance
 Expanding existing backup solution would require second
master server, two additional tape silos, 16 new LTO tape
drives
“Avamar was much less
expensive than our
other backup and
With Avamar
recovery options. But it  Backup for VMware (24 ESX servers, 332 virtual clients)
also provides us faster
data restores, more  Avamar agents installed in VM guests
backup capacity, and  Eliminated physical tape management
scalability to meet future
data protection needs.”  Reduced backup and recovery administrative burden
— Company spokesman,
global industrial manufacturer  Backup performance increased ten-fold
 Backup network traffic reduced by 95%
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 USE CASE

Fortune 20 Healthcare Supplier

Backing up a VMware infrastructure

Before Avamar
 Growing VMware environment struggles to meet backup
window
 Daily tape backup and offsite tape shipments—risky slow
recovery
 Unable to quickly replicate data through WAN for disaster
recovery

With Avamar
 Global deduplication effective within and across VMDK files
 More than 70% reduction in first backup and average of 99.7%
thereafter
 Compared to traditional alternatives, testing showed:
– Avamar moved 20% of the data that Symantec PureDisk moved
– Avamar moved 190% less data than traditional tape backup software

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 USE CASE

Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

Remote-office/branch-office backup

Before Avamar
 73 remote offices, backup to local, direct-attached tape
drives
 No local IT staff
 Daily backup required five hours per site; six hours to
restore entire server
“Avamar enabled us to
reduce administrative With Avamar
support requirements
by 80%, reduce backup  Four hours to back up all 73 offices through existing
windows by 90%, and WAN (56k-T1) to central Avamar server
recover lost files and
servers in minutes  45 minutes to restore entire servers; files restored in
rather than hours.” seconds
— Mike DePhillip,
Backup Administrator,  Centralized management and control
Virginia DMV

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 USE CASE

Corporate Express
Remote office/branch office backup

Before Avamar
 Storage demands were rapidly increasing
 Tape library was reaching slot capacity and upgrading was not
ideal due to age and maintenance costs
 Needed to control costs and simplify data management
 Backup and disaster recovery was time consuming

“We were blown away With Avamar

by the simplicity of the
management interface  Reduced stored data by more than 50 percent—from 92 TB to
and the comprehensive 44 TB
capabilities offered by  Achieved significant financial savings
Avamar. After carrying
out a proof of concept,  Enabled disk-based backups to be completed in 30 minutes,
we clearly understood compare to six hours in the past for tape
the benefits Avamar
would bring to our
 Reduced restoration times for business-critical data from
business.” 24 hours to minutes
— Mark Jones, Technology
Infrastructure Manager

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 USE CASE

A Global Pharmaceutical Company

Remote-office/branch-office backup

Before Avamar
 Strain developing and deploying a coherent IT strategy for
more than 250 sites, 100,000 employees
– Lacked consistent IT infrastructure
– Cumbersome tape backup solution was overextending staff and overtaxing
virtual machines

 Escalating capital and operation costs

“When we compared the With Avamar

total cost of ownership  Deployed from templates within a virtual application pack
of EMC Avamar to that
of traditional backup,  Reduced backup time by more than 75%; slashed cycle time
we found that Avamar for offsite data replication
cost less yet provides  Minimized impact on network bandwidth
exponentially better
data protection and  Reduced storage costs by eliminating tape backup and
service levels.” slashing storage requirements
— Head of Storage Services
Global pharmceutical
company

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