PROVIDING YOU THE CAPABILITY TO EASILY REWIND DATA BACK TO A SINGLE POINT IN TIME, CA XOSOFT CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION (CDP) SOLO HELPS YOU QUICKLY RECOVER FROM DATA CORRUPTION CAUSED BY VIRUSES, SOFTWARE BUGS AND USER ERRORS.
Overview
Traditionally, recovery from a data corruption required that you restore from the last backup or snapshot, which could result in many hours of lost information. To help alleviate this problem, CA XOsoft CDP Solo offers cost-effective continuous data protection by enabling you to simply rewind back to any point in time to recover your data. This solution provides you greater control and usability by building an additional critical layer of protection to your backup and recovery systems.
Benefits
Because it helps keep data loss to an absolute minimum, CA XOsoft CDP Solo fully supports today’s modern IT strategy. This targeted solution reduces business risk by providing you with additional protection between backups as well as faster recovery times. A centralized management GUI and continuous data capture help you decrease data loss. CDP allows you to quickly roll data back to any point in time — making this solution a good fit for operations known to be high risk.
The CA Advantage
CA pioneered the development of true, continuous CDP as an integrated capability in the CA XOsoft Replication (formerly CA XOsoft WANSync) product. CA XOsoft CDP Solo works with your existing hardware and software to provide fast recovery and minimal data loss. As part of the larger CA Recovery Management solution, this solution exemplifies CA’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision by helping you simplify and unify IT management.
CA XOsoft™ Continuous Data
Protection Solo V4
CA XOsoft CDP Solo: A Complete Data Recovery and Data
Protection Solution
The days when a daily backup provided adequate protection for business critical processes are long gone. Today, the smallest bit of downtime can translate into real and significant costs: productivity decreases because employees are unable to work; business is lost because orders can’t be taken; and customer satisfaction declines as your downtime turns into their downtime. According to various industry analysts, overall downtime costs averaged 3.6 percent of annual revenue. In today’s market, most organizations cannot afford that kind of bite out of
their margins.
Likewise, various reports suggest that well over half of all downtime is unplanned, and of that, 80 percent is the result of software and user errors. This includes unknown and irreproducible bugs, accidental deletion or configuration changes, batch jobs that corrupt important data and user errors from the use of hard-to-understand management tools. More significantly, many of these errors occur at predictable times, such as during database maintenance or batch processing runs.
Address IT Challenges while Mitigating Business Risk
Traditional data protection systems like RAID, tape backups and snapshots provide a critical layer of insurance, but they cannot prevent the loss of hours of potentially valuable data prior to an error. All of these solutions leave significant gaps in protection leading to the loss of critical information.
Reliably protecting your organization's most critical data isn't about finding the single, best solution. It’s about building multiple layers of protection so you can have the capacity to cover a wide range of threats. To that end, CA XOsoft CDP Solo adds an additional layer of defense by filling in data protection gaps between backups. It provides support for the best possible recovery point objective (RPO) —the point just before the corruption occurred.
For business critical applications and data, keeping data loss to a minimum is extremely important, but it is just as imperative to get back up and running fast. CA XOsoft CDP Solo effectively automates the recovery process to dramatically reduce both complexity and time. The solution helps you decrease the time it takes to recover your data from hours, or even days, to minutes and thereby helps alleviate the burden and drain on your IT
administrators' time.
Secure Protection and Quick Recovery
DATA RECOVERY TO ANY POINT IN TIME
Should recovery be required, this continuous data protection and recovery solution simply plays the undo operations backward to any desired point in the past that is recorded in the journal, just like performing a sequence of undo operations. With software agents installed on application servers throughout your data center and a central management GUI console, CA XOsoft CDP Solo allows you to configure, monitor, manage and perform recovery on all of your Exchange, SQL, Oracle, file and other application servers from a single console. When the application data on a server becomes corrupt, CA XOsoft CDP Solo alerts you through the central GUI, by email or through system logs. The CA XOsoft CDP Solo data recovery software then allows you to quickly and easily rewind individual files or databases – or the entire protected dataset – to any point in the past, before the corruption occurred, regardless of the total size of the data. For supported applications (Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle), CA XOsoft CDP Solo also displays backup events and significant application-specific events, such as checkpoints, log rotations or points in time that the database is known to be in a consistent state.
Continuous data protection technology has emerged as one of the leading growth areas of data protection and data recovery software. CDP goes beyond capturing data from previously isolated captured states, such as a daily or weekly backup or snapshot. Instead, it allows you to return to any point in time to recover critical information.
In 2002, CA pioneered the development of true, continuous CDP as an integrated capability in the CA XOsoft Replication data replication product. CA XOsoft CDP Solo provides this same capability in the form of host-based software agents managed from a central console - data recovery software that works with your existing hardware and software to provide fast recovery and minimal data loss.
FIGURE A
CENTRALIZED GUI MANAGEMENT
CA XOsoft Solo is a simple, cost-effective and flexible solution that provides continuous data protection and recovery. As such, its key features include:
• Host-based software agents that monitor all application data changes and record the information required to rewind the data to any point in the past
• Tailored application support for Exchange, Oracle and SQL Server
• File support for file servers and other applications
• Automatic monitoring of production applications and the state of application services, which allows for immediate notification of problems through email, GUI console and system logs
• A centralized GUI management console to configure, monitor, manage and recover servers across the enterprise
• Administrator-defined bookmarks to mark known states, which allows for rapid back-out of failed software installations and configuration changes
• Easy integration with existing hardware and software
• Non-disruptive installation that provides immediate protection with no downtime
FIGURE B
COMPLETE DATA RECOVERY AND PROTECTION FOR CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
CA XOsoft CDP Solo includes a comprehensive suite of data recovery solutions, each precisely tailored to industry standard application and database servers. These suites include:
• CA XOsoft CDP Solo Option for Exchange, which provides complete and rapid recovery from data corruption for Microsoft Exchange servers
• CA XOsoft CDP Solo Option for SQL, which offers fast and comprehensive data recovery software solution for Microsoft SQL
• CA XOsoft CDP Solo Option for Oracle, a data protection solution that provides comprehensive protection against corruptions on Oracle database servers
• CA XOsoft CDP Solo Option for File Server, which offers a data protection solution for quick and effortless recovery data corruption for file servers and other application
• Integrated Solutions utilize the same CA XOsoft's Rewind™ technology which allows for the capture of backup start and stop events and generates the appropriate internal notifications and script-based actions
Build an Extra Layer of Protection into Your Backup
and Recovery Systems
CA XOsoft CDP Solo provides greater control, usability and cost effectiveness by building a critical additional layer of protection into your backup and recovery systems. In doing so, the software offers dramatically faster time to recovery and keeps data loss to an absolute minimum – allowing you to get the business up and running quickly.
Covering Gaps in Your Current Data Protection Solution
Providing the capability to recover data to the time just prior to a corruption keeps data loss to an absolute minimum, CA XOsoft CDP Solo identifies and records significant application-specific events, such as checkpoints and log file rotations, allowing the administrator to rewind corrupted databases precisely to the consistent state.
As a result, the solution helps you cover the times between backups and snapshots – helping minimize damaging data loss from corruptions. Plus, rewinding individual files ensures that you recover only corrupted data without losing other changes. CA XOsoft CDP Solo also integrates easily with industry standard backup or snapshot-based solutions.
Ensuring Speedy Time to Recovery
Increasing Productivity with a Cost-Effective CDP Solution
CA XOsoft CDP Solo provides a centralized, but flexible, GUI console that allows all scenarios throughout the enterprise to be managed by a single administrator or to be distributed to other administrators. Plus, application-aware data recovery software for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Oracle supports recovery to a well-defined state for the application.
IT administrators are able to configure CA XOsoft CDP Solo journal files to cover a specific amount of time or pre-set journal size, thereby ensuring the optimal use of resources. Additionally, this software solution does not require a new infrastructure investment and easily integrates with standard backup solutions. By helping you leverage your current IT investments, CA XOsoft CDP solo allows you to make full use of existing hardware and software, including MSCS clusters.
And because this solution is a “soft” install, it does not require a system reboot or application service restart – so you can install and enable full protection without any downtime.
CA Advantage
CA XOsoft CDP Solo offers industry-leading data protection for supporting critical business applications against a wide range of threats. Another important advantage of this innovative solution is that it is supported by CA, a long-time market leader in IT-enabled business solutions.
Next Steps
You know how critical your IT resources are to your business, and how important it is to keep these resources available and up to date. In support of this, CA XOsoft CDP Solo offers consolidated, flexible, integrated and powerful continuous data protection that can help keep your business running.
This protection translates directly into greater agility and productivity for your company, your customers, employees and partners. Learn how quickly and easily CA XOsoft CDP Solo can help you meet your enterprise’s specific availability and continuous data protection needs. Take the CA XOsoft CDP Solo for a free test drive. Visit ca.com/trials.
Take Recovery Management to the Next Level
Continuous data protection (CDP) also is available as part of our CA XOsoft Replication and CA XOsoft High Availability solutions. Contact us for more information related to your specific continuous data protection needs.
