The face of data protection has forever changed-and that new face is disk. Today, more and more organizations prefer disk as the nightly backup target. For an increasing number of these organizations, it is the only solution. Corporate and regulatory requirements, eDiscovery/litigation events and voluminous data pools all demand quick, easy recovery-and you get this only from backing up to disk.

EMC offers a comprehensive portfolio of products that span the data protection continuum, and with the introduction of data de-duplication for its Disk Library family, EMC further extends de-duplication support across its backup portfolio. This breadth of disk and data de-duplication capabilities allows users to pick-and-choose solutions to match the data protection requirements of different data types. For mission-critical data, that may mean taking frequent snapshots of data via EMC NetWorker or doing continuous capture via EMC RecoverPoint. For data that is a little less mission-critical, backing up to an EMC Disk Library (via EMC NetWorker) with or without data de-duplication may be appropriate. For remote offices and data in VMware environments, EMC Avamar is appropriate. With Avamar, backup data is de-duplicated (globally) at the source (i.e., on the client) before it is moved across the network and written to disk.