Infrastructure Achievements

Data Security is an essential part of Data Management. Security of data is critical and proper data management helps in ensuring that vital data is never lost and protected inside the organization. Backup and recovery describe the process of creating and storing copies of data that can be used to protect organizations against data loss. The business service level agreements [SLA] can be achieved only through quick restore of the backed up data.

UAE University has implemented Enterprise backup solution at both Data Center [DC] and DR Site having long term viability with the latest technology to secure and protect data. Our current backup infrastructure is designed to support all type of data which includes Operating System, Databases, Applications, Virtual instances, etc. We are using EMC Data Domain [DD] as a primary backup destination then it creates multiple cloned copies with different retention to DR DD and tape library.

Dell-EMC Data protection backup Storage [DD]:

The main goals of DD platforms are adequate protection, recoverability, and restorability. DD provides network-efficient, scalable backup and archiving across a distributed enterprise. Patented high-speed, inline deduplication can reduce backup data, making disk cost-effective for backup and archive storage. DD systems reduce replication bandwidth needs, offer flexible deployment options; ensure fast, reliable restore; enable the fastest time to disaster recovery readiness, and minimize power and cooling requirements. Easily integrated into existing environments and easy to manage. DD can help to increase storage efficiency and reduce costs.

During November 2018, a technology refresh was carried out at DR site by replacing DD 860 with DD 9300, and it was made live on 26th December 2018. The entire backups at DD 860 were migrated successfully to DD 9300 and tested with 100% accuracy.

Following are the betterments gained with the implementation of DD 9300: