Productive Corporation

Productive has released its newest P-Guide entitled CDP: A Closer Look.  Continuous Data Protection as an answer to mid-market data-protection needs.  This month's P-Guide focuses on CDP and the mid-market IT department. 

P-Guide: CDP: A Closer Look. 
Continuous Data Protection as an answer to mid-market data-protection needs.
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Date Published: July 28, 2008
Format: PDF
Length: 4 pages
Excerpt:
In the last few years, an answer has emerged in the form of a new generation of disk-based backup technologies. Generally lumped together under the term "Continuous Data Protection" (CDP), these systems allow for faster backups and nearly instantaneous data recovery.

What exactly is CDP? There are numerous definitions floating around. For instance, the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) defines it as a "a methodology that continuously captures or tracks data modifications and stores changes independent of the primary data, enabling recovery points from any point in the past." IDC has defined it like this: "Continuous data protection, also referred to as continuous backup, pertains to products that track and save data to disk so that information can be recovered from any point in time, even minutes ago."

In other words, CDP protects and captures data as it is written to disk and automatically saves every change made to any item of data on a company's system. By doing so, it can restore data to their condition before a loss or interruption occurred-and often in a matter of minutes or even seconds. The result: less data loss, potentially less business downtime, and an effective to find a balance between RTO and RPO.

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The P-guide discusses pertinent issues in IT for mid-market companies.  These articles are designed to educate IT professionals about software as it relates to security, storage, infrastructure, volume licensing and other relevant topics.