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COST SAVINGS OF DATA CENTRALIZATION  INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICE LEVELS 
Remove and retire backup equipment from remote 
sites, saving in maintenance and upgrades 
Remote and branch office systems run faster and with no 
backup impact, supporting higher productivity levels for 
business workers 
Repurposes backup server systems to other 
workloads 
Efficient use of networks through combined effect of data 
reduction from compression, encryption and deduplication 
Eliminate the cost of tape cartridges from remote sites Ability to enforce common policies for data management across 
all data, including data created in remote sites 
Eliminate service contracts requiring tape collection 
from each remote site 
Ability to report on management of all data, including centralized 
data, for executive oversight and validation 
Eliminate or reduce human error in data management  Higher levels of reliability for preservation of data for disaster 
recovery and legal discovery purposes 
Remove the burden of tape rotation and oversight of 
backup/recovery from remote sites 
Higher levels of data reliability and reduced cost of remote office 
data protection 
However,untilnow,thistypeofapproachhasbeentoocomplexformany
organizationstodeploy.Inparticular,ITteamswithlimitedresourceshavebeen
reluctanttochangewhattheyhavedonetoprotectremotesitedatabecauseof
concernswithnetworkcostsandsecurityofthedata,andbecauseadding
replicationsoftwarerequiredtocentralizedatafromremo
tesiteshasnotbeen
simpleenough.
The
DellDL2
100 powere
dbyCommVaultSimpanareplicationsoftwaresolvesthe
complexityissue
foralltypesoforganizations,largeandsmall,andoffersa
methodforcentralizingdatafromremotesitesthatissimple,network‐efficient,
andsecure.Dellhassolvedth
ecom
plexityproblembyofferingadrop‐instorage
devicewithallofthecapabilitiesrequiredtoreplicatedataoverWANforanyend‐
userfile,emailorapplicationdatastoredonthestoragesystem.Dellalso
preservestheflexibilitytodeployasoftwareagentforreplicationfroms
m
aller
sites,whereaddingstoragemaynotbedesirable.Thissolutionalsoensures
networkefficiencyanddatasecurityovernetworks,withtheuseofCommVault
Simpanareplicationwhichcombinesdatacompression,encryptionand
deduplication.
Forvirtuallythefirsttime,datacentralizationcanbesimple,efficientandsecure
forallorga
nizationsandrem
otesites,largeandsmall.TheDellDL2100powered 
byCommVaultSimpanareplicationwillhelptoacceleratecompanyinitiativesto
capture,protectandpreservealldatathroughtheadoptionofdisk‐based
initiativesandtape‐eliminationstrategies–evenfordataontheedgeoftheir
organizations. 
BRANCH OFFICE CONSOLIDATION WITH THE DELL POWERVAULT DL2100 –
POWERED BY C
OMMVAULT SIMPANA REPLICATION










