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VCE BACKUP, RECOVERY, AND ARCHIVE

ASSESSMENT SERVICE

Overview

VCE Backup, Recovery, and Archive (BURA) Assessment

Service provides detailed assessment of the backup,

recovery, and archive capabilities for a customer’s data

center. This assessment identifies gaps, recommends a

corresponding strategy, and develops a business case to

move the organization to a future state with known service

levels and predictable costs.

Many enterprise organizations are experiencing drastically

higher data growth rates, putting added pressure on IT

organizations’ ability to back up and restore data. While most

IT organizations employ a backup and recovery strategy,

most do not regularly update their strategy. They fail to

account for changes such as the move from physical to virtual

environments, criticality of production systems, and surging

data growth.

Service Benefits

The combination of an efficient BURA architecture and

effective processes frees up production storage, reduces

backup windows, and ensures more reliable recovery of data.

Customers realize the following measurable benefits:

A system that frees up production storage with active

archiving

Smaller data sets, which translate into smaller backup

windows, increased control, and more reliable recovery

Lower costs, less media use, and reduced reliance on

tape

Near elimination of backup and archive redundancy

through the reallocation of assets as required

Better utilization of resources and staff

Simplified backup and recovery processes and

improved operations

Increased throughput performance

Improved network bandwidth utilization

Accelerated disaster recovery readiness

Service Description

The BURA Assessment Service can be customized to

include these elements:

Determining the technical barriers that prevent meeting

established service level agreements

Establishing a strategy that sets the direction for service

level agreements by defining the business case,

reference architecture, and financial impact

Identifying the organization’s current operational

capabilities, processes, and skills and developing a

baseline using maturity models and best practices

Implementing efficient, repeatable, and cost-effective

processes for backup, recovery, and archive delivery

and management

Assessing advanced storage technologies that support

distributed de-duplication processing, centralized

replication management, end-to-end data integrity, load

balancing, and link failover

Developing a backup and archive service catalog,

reference architecture, and decision logic

Developing a realistic implementation roadmap,

including a high-level, next-steps plan

Service Delivery

The BURA Assessment Service is performed by EMC

Consulting in conjunction with VCE Professional Services.

EMC Consulting provides strategic guidance and technology

expertise to help organizations exploit information to its

maximum potential. EMC Consulting drives execution for its

clients, including more than half of the Fortune Global 500

companies, to transform information into actionable strategies

and tangible business results.

Related Solutions

VCE Data Protection

VCE Data Protection includes a variety of products including

EMC Avamar, Data Domain, VPLEX, and RecoverPoint

products that can be integrated into VblockTM

Systems.

Broad Ecosystem of Partners to Accelerate Customer Success

VCE is dedicated to providing customers with the fastest,

most effective path to pervasive virtualization and cloud

computing. We’ve developed a broad ecosystem of partners

around the world who have been trained to deliver

professional services that are designed to take full advantage

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of Vblock systems. These partners adhere to industry best

practices and proven deployment processes that VCE

Services has developed, so they can facilitate each

customer’s journey and accelerate their success.

For More Information

More information about VCE solutions and services is

available from www.vce.com and from your local VCE

representative.

ABOUT VCE

VCE, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure

and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers.

VCE, through the Vblock systems, delivers the industry's only fully integrated and fully virtualized cloud infrastructure

system. VCE solutions are available through an extensive partner network, and cover horizontal applications, vertical industry

offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of

integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure.

For more information, go to www.vce.com.

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