NetBackup™ Appliances: Tackling Cost and Complexity Through Greater Usability Who should read this paper Who should read this paper • Directors of IT and IT Managers • Backup Administrations and Architects WHITE PAPER: SYMANTEC NETBACKUP™ APPLIANCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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White Paper: NetBackup Appliances: Tackling Cost and Complexity Through Greater Usability
Who should read this paper • Directors of IT and IT Managers • Backup Administrations and Architects
IT organizations are at a crossroads. On one hand, IT organizations are tasked with managing and supporting the current environment; ensuring the day-to-day operation is efficient and cost-effective. In other words, keeping the lights on.
On the other hand, organizations need to prepare and develop new technologies to support the business. What are the new initiatives and applications that will increase sales or offer the business a competitive advantage? IT must invest both staff and resources in these new endeavors and often without increasing their budget.
This dilemma is not new, “Most IT organizations have 70 percent or more of their time, money and mindshare locked into reliability, keeping things going,” said Tina Nunno, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “Yet demands for game changing IT capabilities are growing every year. IT leaders must transform their businesses, products, services, and value proposition to the external customer, and challenge traditional ways of thinking.”
What is new is the pace of change. IT organizations have less time today than ever before, and will have even less time in the future. Organizations need to re-evaluate how they are “keeping the lights on” in order to free up the staff and funds to invest in the new. With up to 70 percent of resources tied up, it is natural to question if staff and resources can be reduced and invested elsewhere.
One solution within IT has been the adoption of appliances. An appliance integrates multiple separate components into a single device to streamline its management, operation, and support. Within backup and recovery, purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) are growing three times faster than software-only–based solutions. As highlighted by IDC, organizations are realizing the value of the appliance form factor.
Experienced IT professionals know how difficult it can be to deploy, manage, and support backup systems. Not only do backup servers and storage require their own care and feeding, but backups interact with nearly every server, storage, and network component in the data center.
NetBackup addresses these burdens and offers a fully integrated, turnkey appliance that combines NetBackup Software with a server and storage. Built on the strength of NetBackup Software, NetBackup enterprise-class appliances continue to lead the integrated PBBA market.
“… demands for game changing IT capabilities are growing every year. IT leaders must transform their businesses, products, services, and value proposition to the external customer, and challenge traditional ways of thinking.”
– Tina Nunno, Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst
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NetBackup™ Appliances: Tackling Costand Complexity Through GreaterUsabilityWho should read this paperWho should read this paper
• Directors of IT and IT Managers• Backup Administrations and Architects
NetBackup™ Appliances: Tackling Cost and Complexity Through Greater Usability
Executive Summary
A challenge for many organizations is performing lights-on activities when more strategic or revenue-generating projects are needed.
Independent research from Enterprise Strategy Group indicates that IT organizations typically spend 64 percent of their budget on maintaining
existing infrastructure, while only 36 percent is spent on new technologies that address operational challenges and provide competitive
advantage.1
Symantec™ realizes companies struggle to balance the day-to-day operations with strategic initiatives with limited staff and financial
resources. With NetBackup™ and NetBackup Appliances, organizations are able to address this need. Within backup and recovery, Symantec
NetBackup Appliances provide greater efficiency to free valuable staff time, reduce capital cost, and minimize risk. These operating and
capital expenditure savings enable organizations to invest in their future.
Learn how NetBackup Appliances are providing greater usability and support to reduce cost and complexity.
Introduction
IT organizations are at a crossroads. On one hand, IT organizations are tasked with managing and supporting the current environment;
ensuring the day-to-day operation is efficient and cost-effective. In other words, keeping the lights on.
On the other hand, organizations need to prepare and develop new technologies to support the business. What are the new initiatives and
applications that will increase sales or offer the business a competitive advantage? IT must invest both staff and resources in these new
endeavors and often without increasing their budget.
“… demands for game changing IT
capabilities are growing every year. IT
leaders must transform their
businesses, products, services, and
value proposition to the external
customer, and challenge traditional
ways of thinking.”
– Tina Nunno, Gartner Vice President
and Distinguished Analyst
This dilemma is not new, “Most IT organizations have 70 percent or more of their time, money and
mindshare locked into reliability, keeping things going,” said Tina Nunno, vice president and
distinguished analyst at Gartner. “Yet demands for game changing IT capabilities are growing
every year. IT leaders must transform their businesses, products, services, and value proposition
to the external customer, and challenge traditional ways of thinking.”2
What is new is the pace of change. IT organizations have less time today than ever before, and
will have even less time in the future. Organizations need to re-evaluate how they are “keeping
the lights on” in order to free up the staff and funds to invest in the new. With up to 70 percent of
resources tied up, it is natural to question if staff and resources can be reduced and invested
elsewhere.
One solution within IT has been the adoption of appliances. An appliance integrates multiple separate components into a single device to
streamline its management, operation, and support. Within backup and recovery, purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) are growing three
times faster than software-only–based solutions. As highlighted by IDC, organizations are realizing the value of the appliance form factor.3
Experienced IT professionals know how difficult it can be to deploy, manage, and support backup systems. Not only do backup servers and
storage require their own care and feeding, but backups interact with nearly every server, storage, and network component in the data center.
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1. 2013 IT Spending Intentions Survey, by Bill Lundell and John McKnight with Jennifer Gahm, Enterprise Strategy Group, January 2013.Gartner Says Now More Than Ever is the Time to Re-Imagine the Role of IT, October 17, 2011.IDC White Paper: The Evolution and Value of Purpose-Built Backup Appliances, Sponsored by Symantec, by Robert Amatruda, March 2013, #239730.
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NetBackup addresses these burdens and offers a fully integrated, turnkey appliance that combines NetBackup Software with a server and
storage. Built on the strength of NetBackup Software, NetBackup enterprise-class appliances continue to lead the integrated PBBA market.4
NetBackup Appliance Benefits
Symantec NetBackup Appliances provide significant benefits over traditional build-your-own (BYO) media servers. Organizations are able to:
• Implement faster deployments
• Reduce risk, minimize planned and unplanned downtime
• Improve staff efficiencies and enhance service levels
These benefits can be quantified and translated into financial savings—in operating expenditures (OpEx) and/or capital expenditures
(CapEx). Symantec provides an integrated and purpose-built backup and recovery appliance to address the financial challenges organizations
face.
Five Areas of OpEx Savings
For many organizations, using an all-in-one NetBackup Appliance for backup and recovery is a better solution for simplifying IT tasks,
increasing productivity, and providing significant cost savings. NetBackup Appliances deliver OpEx savings in five key areas:
• Acquisition—Eliminate ordering, approvals, scheduling, and delivery of separate media server components, such as server, storage, OS,
and backup software.
• Installation and integration—Eliminate the hassle of installing, integrating, testing, and performance tuning.
• Administration—Streamline administration with a single management console to control all functions of your media server.
• Patching and firmware updates—Reduce compatibility issues of managing all media servers’ components separately for revision level,
firmware, etc.
• Support—Eliminate finger pointing among the different products and component OEMs of a build-your-own backup server, and
automating many support functions with Symantec AutoSupport.
Tackling Cost and Complexity
Symantec has made tremendous investments in supporting the NetBackup Appliance customer experience in order to reduce cost and
complexity. This focus is highlighted in NetBackup Software release 7.6 and NetBackup Appliance release 2.6. These releases provide greater
usability and support for existing NetBackup environments, or organizations considering implementing a new NetBackup solution as an
appliance. (Refer to Table 1.)
Areas of OpEx SaAreas of OpEx Savingsvings NetBackup Appliance 2.6 FNetBackup Appliance 2.6 Featureeature
Acquisition • NetBackup 5230 – 14TB configuration
Installation and Integration • Redesigned web console with initial configuration wizards