EMC intros data protection advisor s/w for cloud

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Storage vendor EMC Corporation announced new version of its EMC data protection advisor software, Data Protection Advisor 5.7.

The EMC data protection advisor is management software that automatically monitors, analyzes, provides alerts and reports in private cloud.

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The company claims that the new Data Protection Advisor 5.7 provides visibility into EMC and third party deduplication software, back-up applications, virtual tape libraries and applications, including Microsoft Exchange 2010.

A key feature of the data protection advisor is automated replication monitoring, which can quickly spot issues and trigger alerts.

EMC has added monitoring, alerting and reporting for EMC RecoverPoint continuous data protection (CDP), continuous remote replication (CRR) and concurrent local and remote replication (CLR) on EMC Symmetrix, and CLARiiON storage systems. Only Data Protection Advisor provides this level of support.

The new version of EMC Data Protection Advisor (5.7) will be available later this quarter from EMC and authorized partners it will be available as free upgrade to current customers under maintenance.