TOP 10 REASONS WHY MORE PEOPLE CHOOSE EMC DATA PROTECTION FOR VMWARE COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE 1 Regardless of your SLAs, EMC protects VMware environments with the most complete continuum of data protection and availability in the industry. From backup/recovery and archive to continuous data protection and disaster recovery, to continuous availability and mobility, EMC provides the most comprehensive solution to meet your business requirements. 2 OPTIMIZED BACKUP AND RECOVERY Variable-length deduplication backup software and systems reduce backup storage up to 95%. Purpose-built backup appliances ensure data integrity, high reliability and availability. FASTER BACKUP 3 EMC leverages VMware Changed Block Tracking through the vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP). Along with its innovative multi-threaded proxy and automatic load balancing, backup times are reduced up to 90%. FASTER RECOVERY 4 Only EMC leverages Changed Block Tracking on restore, so image-level backups can be restored in minutes, by recovering only the blocks needed from the last backup. This process is up to 30x faster than full image restores. Plus, with Instant Access, a VM image backup can be booted and run on protection storage, then while running moved by Storage vMotion back to the production environment. CERTIFIED IN CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE 5 VCE Vblock and EMC VSPEX combine VMware vSphere, Cisco servers and networking, EMC storage and data protection into the industry’s leading converged infrastructures that enable companies to setup their private cloud faster than budiling it themselves. Only EMC’s complete data protection and availability solutions are certified, ensuring comperehensive cloud protection. HANDOUT CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION 6 Get heterogeneous array availability and continuous data protection with any point in time operational recovery, to restore applications instantly. EMC provides universal replication for VMware environments. Application-level consistency ensures seamless re-starts between multiple sites, multiple arrays and multiple interdependent applications. 7 UNMATCHED AVAILABILITY AND MOBILITY Balance workloads, migrate applications, virtual machines, and move data in and between data centers with zero disruption. EMC continuous availability solutions extend the capabilities of VMware by stretching cluster vMotion and HA within the data center and over distance with full infrastructure utilization and zero downtime copy. The highest performance will be realized because the solution creates an activeactive infrastructure fully utilizing resources at both sites. AUTOMATIC MECHANISMS TO ENSURE THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF PROTECTION 8 VMware HA and vMotion provide automatic failover and restart between sites with no manual intervention required. MetroPoint topology combines the best of availability and protection solutions to deliver a 3-site continuous availability and protection that can function even in the event of full site failures. 9 INTEGRATED AND CERTIFIED EMC data protection provides the most comprehensive integration to VMware, with connections through vCenter, VADP, vCloud Director and the vSphere Web Client. EMC data protection is certified as VMware Ready. 10 TRUSTED MARKET LEADERSHIP EMC is the largest data protection company in the world serving every size company in every market segment. More people choose – and trust – EMC to protect their VMware environments than anyone else. EMC2, EMC, the EMC logo, Avamar, Data Domain, and NetWorker are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. VMware is a registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc., in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. © Copyright 2014 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Published in the USA. 07/14 Handout H13562 www.EMC.com EMC believes the information in this document is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice.