Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 22)

ESG LAB VALIDATION
Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault
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ESG Lab’s View
Organizations are struggling to keep up with the challenges associated with protecting growing volumes of digital
information. Faced with a number of seemingly unrelated challenges, disparate software and processes are
often deployed to meet growing backup, archive, disaster recovery, and search challenges. This can result in a
maze of solutions, requiring separate GUI consoles, training, licenses, and maintenance. Adding to the potential
complexity is the growing use of disk-based solutions for faster backup, restore and discovery operations.
The Dell DL2000 Powered by CommVault is a customer-installable, fully integrated appliance that offers reliable
data protection
to meet all of an organization‘s data protection challenges. Combining Dell hardware with a pre-
installed suite of CommVault software with a single management interface, the Dell PowerVault DL2000
Powered by CommVault combines data protection and single step granular recovery with data deduplication and
continuous data replication to create a single solution that redefines the way companies can store, manage, and
recover their mission critical data.
ESG Lab testing has confirmed that the Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault can be deployed,
configured, and performing backups in less than twenty minutes. Single step granular recovery and simple
search capabilities were used to find and recover individual files and application-specific objects (e.g., an
Exchange mailbox), including items located on virtual servers. The capacity savings of CommVault SIS
deduplication were used to change the economics of data protection
—making backups more cost-effective as
more data is stored for longer periods of time on fast and reliable built-in disk. Continuous data replication was
used to demonstrate cost-effective, tape-less recovery of data at a simulated remote site.
Considering the hefty financial commitment required to modify, upgrade, or replace most backup environments,
users now have an affordable, customer-installable disk-based backup appliance to turn to. Leveraging the
reliability of affordable hardware from Dell and a fully integrated suite of software services from CommVault
including disk-based backup and recovery, space-saving data deduplication and cost-efficient remote replication,
ESG Lab believes that the Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault is ideally suited to meet the
challenges of small to medium-size enterprises looking to eliminate costly downtime as they optimize the
protection of precious digital assets.