Data Growth Outpacing Backup Capacity

The explosive growth in the amount of data that enterprises need to back-up has left many IT organizations without sufficient server capacity and scrambling to add more on an ad hoc basis.

Kanatek has been implementing very large distributed enterprise backup solutions for customers for several years. It has watched these solutions evolve to meet expanding needs and, as a result, has established the practice of periodically evaluating the continuing effectiveness of a Symantec NetBackup solution and recommending improvements to the backup configurations when required.

Key points

• Many backup implementations are not keeping pace with growth in corporate data
• Organisations are fire fighting to increase backup capacity and ensure valuable data is being backed up
• Kanatek has the experience to review backup systems and help organisations decide what they need to do

Kanatek solutions:

• Conduct a detailed analysis of the existing environment
• Measure the potential impact of future planned changes
• Substantiate the findings through exhaustive measurement of backup system performance and utilization through an internal Web interface
  

Expert Capacity Planning

As specialists in backup systems including NetBackup from our partners at Symantec, Kanatek is increasingly called upon to assess the performance of existing backup implementations and processes and to deliver a systematic plan for meeting backup requirements a full year into the future.

Kanatek Capacity Planning begins with a complete audit and report on your existing backup facilities' performance and utilization detailing:

• CPU utilization and processes
• Filesystem and I/O device reports
• Memory utilization - Overall performance
• Data volumes and throughput
• Detailed System Recommendations

Based on the findings of the utilization analysis, Kanatek then recommends a complete server solution, including an item-by-item list of system components, all designed to accelerate your current backup process while providing enough backup capacity for up to one year into the future.

Kanatek monitors the running backups using a combination of commercial and custom-built tools to determine how well the backup system is performing. A capacity planning exercise determines any new backup requirements and sets any new backup processing requirements.

The process produces two deliverables:

• The Performance Monitoring Report which details the state of the existing backup configuration
• The Capacity Plan that sets out the expansion requirements, if any, for the next twelve months

Talk to your Kanatek Account Manager to find out more or contact Kanatek sales at websales@kanatek.com.

Kanatek has the experience to help organizations cut down on the proliferation of servers that seems endemic in some organizations. Sometimes the rush to launch new products or applications means the IT infrastructure needed to run it becomes an afterthought and an IT group is left having to manage hundreds of servers, spread throughout an organization. Kanatek can help organizations review their infrastructure and cut down their costs, with no degradation in service quality. Kanatek can demonstrate application isolation and service level assurance using Sun's Solaris Resource Manager (SRM). SRM also provides resource management allocation on the shared server and is included in Solaris 9 or add-on to Solaris 8, 7 or 2.6.