EMC extends Avamar dedupe to desktops, laptops

HOPKINTON, USA: EMC Corporation announced enhanced enterprise back-up capabilities for desktop and laptop computers, as part of the latest version of EMC Avamar software.

Businesses and organizations of all sizes can now leverage the same innovative Avamar deduplication technology that protects data centres and remote offices to efficiently back-up the information stored on corporate desktops and laptops.

Data Dedupe: So much with so little!

The addition of new lightweight clients for Microsoft Windows and Mac, an intuitive end user interface for backups and restores, and powerful tools for administrators, Avamar extends Avamar's enterprise data protection to desktops and laptops.

Using Avamar means backups are non-disruptive, and a self-service recovery model makes it easy for end users to restore data. Avamar users never have to back-up the same data twice, reducing daily network impact by up to 99 percent.

Jim O'Dorisio, vice president, Engineering, EMC's Backup Recovery Systems Division, said, "The backup and protection of critical corporate data on desktops and laptops is often overlooked. Also, as the number of mobile users grows and the amount and importance of the data stored by these users' increases, organizations can face critical corporate data protection exposures. Until now, the solution for many customers has been to deploy costly point solutions that focus only on desktops and laptops. EMC Avamar provides customers with a single solution that can protect all corporate assets, simplify operations and reduce costs by leveraging one operational skill set for all categories of data."

High cost tape dependency restrict dedupe

In addition, EMC extends its Avamar capabilities through new virtualization support of VMware vSphere 4 through vCenter and vStorage integration giving customers more flexible backup and restore options. Avamar is now fully integrated with the new vStorage API that comes as part of vSphere 4 and provides a more robust solution for VMware backups. vCenter has been integrated into the Avamar management console providing a single point of management for all backup options available.

Chuck Hollis, vice president and global marketing CTO, EMC, said, "What we're seeing in EMC Avamar is an important component of the private cloud; ultimately, information must be protected wherever it goes. Between leveraging the new vSphere API architecture and improved support for VMware View 4, we can deliver the enterprise scale, as well as the client support customers and service providers need for next generation backup."

Finally, EMC has increased Avamar backup capacity by more than 60 percent and added new deduplicated export to tape functionality.

EMC Avamar, version 5.0, is available immediately from EMC and its Velocity2 and authorized partners.