Executive Summary - HP StoreOnce B6000 Use Manual

Executive Summary

Protecting data across all corporate locations is critical for business, legal and regulatory compliance
purposes in today's information age. Too often, business critical data at remote locations is
inadequately protected, exposing the business to the risk of lost data and lost productivity. A study
conducted by industry analyst Enterprise Strategy Group found that the top three IT priorities for
remote office / branch office (ROBO) locations were driven by business priorities: Improve
information security, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve disaster recovery
Some of the biggest challenges in remote office data protection cited by organizations are:
Limited IT staff and limited backup & recovery skill set
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High capital and operating costs of remote office backup & recovery
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Inability to complete backup jobs within scheduled backup window
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Improving the time it takes to recover data
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Centralizing the control, management and policies of remote location backup and recovery
Enterprise Strategy Group Research Report: Branch Office Optimization, 2007
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This whitepaper shows how recent developments in the HP data protection portfolio can overcome
these obstacles through the use of centralized management with HP Data Protector software and the
use of Deduplication and Low bandwidth replication on HP's virtual tape library products. The
whitepaper examines three scenarios which cover a wide range of possible implementations.
Figure 1: Enterprise deployment with small and large ROBOs
Figure 1 shows the HP Vision for "Protecting data anywhere" using these technologies.
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