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Situational Analysis
Enterprise Backup Solution

This document was prepared to analyze the backup infrastructure, and prepare an action plan, for the Ridgefield location.  

Content
1 Situation Analysis 3
2 Objective 3
3 Situation Fact 3
4 Options 4
4.1 Option # 1:   Veritas Netbackup 4
4.2 Option # 2:   Legato Networker 5
4.3 Option #3:   Commvault Galaxy 7
4.4 Enterprise Backup Solution – Evaluation Analysis 8
4.5 Summary of options available 11
4.6 Updated analysis of Legato Networker subsequent to inclusion of Visual Storage Resource                   Migrator and Alphastor 11
5 Recommendation 17


1 Situation Analysis
This document was prepared to analyze the current backup environment and prepare an action plan, for the Ridgefield location regarding the incorporation an Enterprise Backup Solution.
2 Objective
Our objective is to determine the best course of action regarding the selection and implementation of an Enterprise Backup Solution.
3 Situation Fact
The current network environment has been outgrown the ability of Veritas BackupExec, the backup software platform used by BI Ridgefield- Production Services, in terms of amount of data being backed up, functionality, and reliability.   At the time of its initial purchase approximately six years ago (with BackupExec 7.x), the server infrastructure consisted of approximately 80 clients with one TB of data captured on a weekly full backup.   This small-business level backup solution provided a good fit for the environment and served the company's data protection needs well.   Accordingly, we continued to leverage BackupExec 8.x – 9.x in our organization as the network infrastructure expanded though out the years.
The server environment has now grown to the point where there are 370 servers with approximately 16 Terabytes of data captured on a weekly full backup.   In light of this, meeting the established backup/restore service agreement is becoming increasingly challenging. Some of the...