Double-Take® Software was featured on the cover of Storage Magazine…
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Grows Up
By Jacob Gsoedl
October 27, 2008
WHEN CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION (CDP) emerged a few years ago, it was positioned as a product that would replace traditional backup software. CDP vendors predicted IT managers would abandon their age-old weekly full and daily incremental backups and adopt CDP, which captures every data change and can restore data and applications to any granular point in the past.
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/27480-Continuous-Data-Protection-grows-up
…We track events like file-save operations, or Exchange and SQL Server start or shutdown events to determine consistent states and mark these events within the change journal,” explains Bob Roudebush, Double-Take Software’s director of solutions engineering. Heuristic consistency appears to be favored by products with file-level filter drivers, mostly because the file system provides the information required to determine consistent application states.
Despite its ominous start, CDP has been incorporated into data protection products and its role is likely to expand. Rapid data growth, highly distributed firms with branch offices lacking IT resources, the need for better RTOs and RPOs, shrinking backup windows and the need for 24/7 app availability are all trends that support the increased adoption of CDP.
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