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Data Domain Implementation for Backup/Restore Performance
Enhancements
Information protection is critical to a company's day-to-day operations. In the digital age, information is one of the most
important assets a company owns, and having an efficient and manageable backup and recovery strategy has become
an IT imperative.
Backup and Recovery is the process of creating copies of data (backups) so that it can be restored or recovered to a
previous state if the original data is lost or corrupted, in addition to that, Organizations take backup to comply with
regulatory requirements. For many years, tape media was the only choice for backup due to its cost advantage.
With growing business and regulatory demands for data storage, retention, and availability, organizations are faced
with the task of backing up an ever increasing amount of data. Moreover, organizations need a quick restore of backed
up data to meet business service level agreements (SLAs).
Traditional backup solutions do not provide any inherent capability to prevent duplicate data from being backed
up. With the growth of information and 24x7 application availability requirements, backup windows are shrinking.
Traditional backup processes back up a lot of duplicate data. Backing up duplicate data significantly increases the
backup window size requirements and results in unnecessary consumption of resources, such as storage space and
network bandwidth.
Data deduplication is the process of identifying and eliminating redundant data. When duplicate data is detected
during backup, the data is discarded and only the pointer is created to refer the copy of the data that is already backed
up. Data deduplication helps to reduce the storage requirement for backup, shorten the backup window, and remove the
network burden. It also helps to store more backups on the disk and retain the data on the disk for a longer time.
Hence, Tape backup is giving way to disk as a backup target.
The EMC Data Domain deduplication storage system is a target based data deduplication solution. Using high speed,
online deduplication technology, the Data Domain system provides a storage footprint that is significantly smaller on an
average, than that of the original data set. Data Domain systems can scale from smaller remote office appliances to large
data centre systems. These systems are available as integrated appliances or as gateways that use external storage.
High Availability Internet and Research Network
To achieve high availability internet and increase the reliability, visibility, and load-balancing of internet connection,
UAEU network is connected and served by more than one connections to different service providers. UAEU effectively
has 1Gbps connectivity to the national research network Ankabut-Internet2 and 2Gbps connectivity to the commodity
Internet through Etisalat and Du.
Wireless Infrastructure Expansion
The UAEU has recently witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of its Wireless Network. To meet the University
community expectations for immediate access to online library resources, research networks and collaborative learning
platforms, UITS has upgraded the wireless network and its underlying infrastructure. This will provide high performance
and more coverage throughout the new campus seamlessly while moving in the campus and hostels.
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