Veritas Backup Reporter Advanced Backup Reporting for the Enterprise

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1 Veritas Backup Reporter Advanced Backup Reporting for the Enterprise

2 Market Situation Backup administration and reporting continue to be top pain points Lack of visibility into Backup/Recovery operations Government regulations and corporate governance are forcing companies to look at reporting to confirm backup/recovery compliance Using shell and batch scripts for reporting purposes is a manual, costly and ineffective process that is prone to error According to the Taneja Group: the data protection management market will grow to $200m by 2008 Enterprise Data Protection 2

3 NetBackup Operational Management & Advanced Backup Reporting: Different, Yet Complementary Backup Management Backup Reporting Advanced Operational Management NetBackup Operations Manager Expected core data protection product functionality Advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics Real-time monitoring and alerting Root-cause analysis Monitoring speeds and feeds Operations-level reporting Advanced Backup Reporting Veritas Backup Reporter Complement to data protection products Assess risks and exposures Business-context reporting Analyze trends and forecast growth Compliance verification and SLA management Cost analysis and chargeback Enterprise Data Protection 3

4 NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) Advanced Operational Management Centralized management across NetBackup domains Server drill-down with job, services and device control Web-based interface for efficient remote administration Available with core NetBackup No extra charge Alert Troubleshoot Report Policy-based thresholds Alerting via and SNMP Job-context log viewing, search and filter Real-time device monitoring and control Policy change history Pre-defined report set designed for operators and administrators Enterprise Data Protection 4

5 Veritas Backup Reporter Compliance Reporting Manage Service Level Agreements Report-out to Legal Department & Auditors Verify Compliance with SOX, HIPAA, ETC. Analyze Risk and Quantify Exposures Assess Recoverability of Clients and Applications Business Planning Identify Growth Trends and Resource Needs Deliver Backup as a Service Chargeback to Business Units and Customers Efficiently Manage a Multi-Product Environment Measure Cost of Data Protection Management Enterprise Data Protection 5

6 Compliance Reporting Compliance verification and Service Level Agreement (SLA) management Verify compliance with SOX, HIPAA, etc. Assess risks and exposures before they impact critical backup operations Business-context reporting for easy chargeback and outbound reporting Assess recoverability of business-critical clients or applications Repeatable process for generating and distributing reports Enterprise Data Protection 6

7 Backup Window Compliance Track backup job completion This display shows the hour of day that jobs complete against a backdrop that shows the backup window in which they are expected to complete for a data center. Enterprise Data Protection 7

8 Service Level Compliance Track recovery point exposure by application Enterprise Data Protection 8

9 Business Planning Align IT operations with the business Cost analysis and chargeback to business units or customers Identify growth trends and resource needs Deliver backup as a service Hierarchical and drill-down reporting Enterprise Data Protection 9

10 Data Growth Forecast Aggregate historical data for forecast analysis Enterprise Data Protection 10

11 Business-level Views View reports and data protection data in context of the business and intended audience: by Geography by Application by Operating System by Data Center Location by Service Tier by Data Protection Product by Customer by Business Unit by Backup Domain, etc. Leverage output from CMDB or other asset management tool to define and manage Views Define hierarchical views for summary overviews with drill-down capabilities Enterprise Data Protection 11

12 Report on your data protection environment By Service Level Who are my Platinum customers? Service Level Silver : Gold : Platinum Which client is using the most tape resources? Customer Finance : Engineering : Human Resources : Manufacturing Can we recover their Oracle environment to 24 hours ago? Application Oracle : Exchange Which server has the longest backup time? Host Server1: Server2: Server3: Enterprise Data Protection 12

13 Report on your data protection environment By Customer How much do we need to invoice Finance for this month? Service Level Silver : Gold : Platinum What % of their data is protected in each tier? Customer Finance : Engineering : Human Resources : Manufacturing At was rate is their Exchange data growing? Application Oracle : Exchange Which of their servers is taking longest to backup? Host Server1: Server2: Server3: Enterprise Data Protection 13

14 What is Success? Success means different things to different people: Operations Architect IT Director End-User/Customer Service Provider Auditor Success calculation must consider several variables: Jobs/Attempts/Streams Exit Status Codes Policies Backup Window Success types Raw job Client Application Enterprise Data Protection 14

15 Success Rate Trends Proactively identify and correct emerging problems before they impact SLAs Tracking job success against targets over time gives managers a powerful tool to identify and correct emerging problems before they reach the threshold of end-user awareness, and well before they compromise service-level agreements. Enterprise Data Protection 15

16 Backup Reporter Flexibility and Ease of Use All reports can automatically be ed or easily extracted Reports can be customized to intended audience Hundreds of out-of-the-box reports available Report Wizard available for easy customization of reports Enterprise Data Protection 16

17 Heterogeneous and Scalable Support Core support for Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec Options for: CommVault Galaxy EMC/Legato NetWorker IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Scalable to the largest and most complex data centers One Backup Reporter customer reports on 20,000 clients and runs 800 reports per day! Enterprise Data Protection 17

18 Summary Help align backup and recovery operations with company business level goals Confirm backup service level compliance, e.g., RPO, RTO, etc. Analyze risk and quantify exposure Heterogeneous platform and backup application support and enterprise scalability Go to for more information Enterprise Data Protection 18