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Intelligent Data Management
December 08 Page 6
or corporate records-retention policies or to support litigation. Traditional approaches to
compliance and eDiscovery often are reactive, manually intensive, and, ultimately,
ineffective efforts to locate data across disparate systems and media types. Even large
enterprises often outsource eDiscovery requests to consulting companies that specialize in
performing such tasks.
• Optimize: Many technologies are available that help in optimizing IT resources. Deduplication
helps in reducing the data footprint by maintaining single copies of redundant data. Customers
can tier their storage, thus moving infrequently accessed data from high-performance storage
arrays to cheaper, lower-performance arrays. Power-efficient solutions and arrays allow
customers to save on their power requirements. Server virtualization allows consolidating
multiple workloads onto a single physical server.
Today, many organizations are struggling to manage a fragmented solution with multiple
management consoles and minimal integration between applications (e.g., backup and archive
are often separate operations). Customers shouldn’t have to buy an over-configured solution
today — they should be able to scale their solutions as their data grows. Existing technologies
may help in controlling the growth of the resources required to maintain exponentially growing
data, but they should be well integrated with the solutions performing the other functions.
Dell’s vision of IDM is that the components that perform these individual functions will work
together seamlessly, with no silos of data that would make data migration a complicated task
involving manual intervention. Dell is laying out a roadmap for a set of Intelligent Data
Management solutions under its TierDisk family of products, which will help SMBs solve the
data management problems by integrating all the above components.
Solutions
Dell is partnering with industry leaders to deliver fully integrated and automated TierDisk
products to simplify information management. The first of these solutions are available now:
Dell's PowerVault™ DL2000 integrated disk-based backup solutions.
PowerVault DL2000
PowerVault DL2000 solutions are the first fully integrated, automated, disk-to-disk-to-tape
solutions with our industry leading partners CommVault® and Symantec® Backup Exec™.
These solutions are designed to manage and protect information at multiple points in its
lifecycle, enabling retention and recovery according to an organization's unique business
requirements.
The PowerVault DL2000 solutions come factory installed with Symantec Backup Exec or
CommVault Simpana® software, plus ease-of-use wizards that allow them to be set up in less
than 30 minutes. These solutions fulfill the goals of IDM by reducing the cost and complexity of
data management. They come with automated dynamic disk provisioning that configures the
disks without user intervention. They provide integrated support for tape libraries, which allows
for easy off-site storage for disaster recovery. And they are available with Dell Storage
Assessment Services, which help in planning the overall data management strategy and the