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HP adds new information availability features to its StorageWorks portfolio

HP has expanded its StorageWorks portfolio with new and enhanced storage systems, software, solutions and tools that increase application uptime and data recovery speeds.

New features in HP OpenView Storage Data Protector benefit small and medium sized businesses as well as large enterprises seeking to improve the availability of their data and their ability to recover from outages. The modular, single data protection solution is compatible with multi-vendor platforms, applications, operating systems, topologies, disks and libraries.

Highlights include:
* Single backup and restore for all Microsoft Exchange Mailbox users or individual mailboxes;

* Full integration with Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service to streamline backup of open files, databases and applications incorporating support for Microsoft Automated System Recovery and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 backup features;

* New "group by devices" and "group by hosts" views in the storage area network (SAN) auto-configuration wizard for optimised shared device access;

* Elimination of backup windows for HP StorageWorks EVA Array customers with a completely integrated, out-of-the-box ‘Zero Downtime Backup’ (ZDB) solution;

* Extended protection to emerging IA-64 platforms, including Windows Server 2003, HP-UX and Linux, as well as DB2 online backup for IBM AIX and HP-UX; Open VMS backup; Windows Server 2003 online backup of Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000; ZDB Backup on Windows Server 2003 for Oracle, Exchange, SQL and SAP.

The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) enables businesses to consolidate their data protection schemes across heterogeneous environments with a multi-tier strategy based on different quality of service levels.

www.hp.com/storage/infrastructure

Date: 18th June 2003 •Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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