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Catalogic Software’s ECX™ platform provides organizations the ability to manage, orchestrate and analyze copy data across your NetApp® and VMware® environment, providing full lifecycle management of your copy data. ECX allows IT to search, report, and analyze your copy data as well as provide automated workflows that allow you to streamline the creation and use of data copies for multiple business solutions.

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Contents

Introduction 3

Catalogic Software – ECX Overview 3The Copy Data Challenge 3

ECX – Intelligent Copy Data Management 5

Copy Data Lifecycle 5Manage 5Orchestrate 5Analyze 5

ECX for VMware and NetApp Storage 6

How ECX Works 6Installation / Implementation 7Registration / Configuration 7Creating ECX Workflows 7

ECX Automation and Orchestration 9Copy Data Workflow 10Use Data Workflow 10NetApp Storage Use Data Workflow 11VMware Use Data Workflow 12Test Mode 13Recovery Mode 13Clone Mode 13Integration with ECX – RESTful APIs 13

Financial Impact 13

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IntroductionData is the new currency of business. Storage technologies that process your data are always evolving. Disk platforms have evolved; arrays have evolved; storage software has evolved and with each turn of the crank, storage solutions become more efficient and flexible. Each advancement in the underlying storage technologies has enabled a wave of new business solutions that had previously been impossible. Business intelligence, enhanced disaster recovery, and more recently, Big Data, are now critical business use cases that have required an evolution in technology. If history is any measure, this rapid progression will not slow down, and IT’s value to the business will grow with it, as long as IT is able to extract the value that the technology delivers.

Given all of the advancements, one theme still remains constant: primary data still continues to grow at a clip of 35% to 50% annually. New business solutions, that are implemented to utilize the data, depend on access to and use of copies of the primary data, so as not to interfere with production operations. Given how many key business operations now require the use of copy data, it becomes clear that in the modern IT environment, copies of production data can be more vital to the business than the production data itself. But with exponential copy data growth, and a hodgepodge of existing tools and scripts to manage these copies, IT is often unable to meet the commitments to the business that depend on this data. Catalogic’s ECX dramatically improves IT’s ability to deliver on all of the demands of the business that depend on rapidly discovering, deploying, accessing and leveraging data copies across the enterprise, including the Cloud.

This document is intended to provide a detailed understanding of Catalogic Software’s ECX platform. ECX provides the IT organization with the ability to manage, orchestrate, and analyze its copy data across the enterprise and cloud, delivering the right copy to the right business function at the right time, all within a single, simplified and automated platform. With ECX, IT organizations are able to dramatically simplify the complexity of the physical infrastructure, software and business processes that make up the historically complex copy data management function, while delivering superior value to the business that has an ever-growing demand for access to and use of copy data.

Catalogic Software – ECX OverviewAn effective copy data solution begins with a comprehensive view of your data across physical, virtual, and cloud-based environments. ECX is a storage management application that delivers automation, orchestration and analytical tools for the data in your IT environment.

ECX catalogs all of the primary data and copy data (Snapshots®, SnapVaults®, SnapMirrors®) in your NetApp® and VMware® environments, in one centralized management console. This allows you to orchestrate, analyze, search, and report on all your data, allowing you to take full advantage of your data assets. By cataloging all tiers of NetApp Snapshots® and VMware objects, search tasks are completed in seconds, enabling you to identify stale or unwanted data, ensure protection compliance, and much more.

Additionally, with an intuitive point-and-click interface, clients can automate and orchestrate copy data and use data workflows. ECX’s automated workflows allow clients to streamline copy data management operations for a number of business operations such as DR, forensics, test/dev, DevOps and analytics.

The Copy Data ChallengeIT is faced with a number of challenges every day that require business solutions such as recovery, disaster recovery, DevOps, analytics, and archive, to name a few. IT deploys a myriad of technologies to try to address these business solutions, such as backup software, backup & archive appliances, replication software and much more. In many instances, these technologies provide similar storage service functions; they make a copy of primary data, and make it available for other use cases, if and when needed. Not only do these extra copies cost money in storage capacity, they also add to cost in terms of additional infrastructure and personnel to create and manage them throughout their lifecycle.


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Figure 1 shows, IDC’s most recent study, it is estimated “that in 2012, more than 60% of enterprise disk storage systems (DSS) capacity may have been made of copy data. Similarly, in 2012, copy data made up nearly 85% of hardware purchases and 65% of storage infrastructure software revenue.”1 Their study also claims that unnecessary copies of data costs all enterprises an aggregate of $44B a year. That’s more than the GDP of over 100 countries. While enterprise data growth has been steady at around 35% YoY, copy data growth has been geometric. The relative decline in storage costs has encouraged a lack of discipline in managing data copies. Also, since the downside risks of not adequately having data copies far outweigh the upside rewards for efficient storage management, copies have changed from being an insurance policy to paranoia.

Drowning in a Deluge of Copy Data

Fig. 1 — IDC, The Copy Data Problem: An Order of Magnitude Analysis, doc #239875

Considering the massive data sprawl occurring today, any comprehensive copy data solution must provide better data management, not only data for copies created into the future, but also for copies that have been created already, irrespective of the tool used to create them. Such a solution requires the ability to assess and address the problem with the capability to Manage, Orchestrate and Analyze copy data.


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ECX – Intelligent Copy Data ManagementECX is the storage industry’s first software-only copy data management platform that allows you to leverage your existing storage infrastructure. ECX installs as a virtual machine and catalogs your NetApp and VMware environments without the need to deploy agents. After you download ECX from the Catalogic Software web site (http://catalogicsoftware.com/en/products/demo-and-trial) and install it, the solution runs out-of-band to create an actionable catalog of your NetApp and VMware environment. The ECX catalog provides administrators the ability to manage, orchestrate and analyze their data in order to meet the objectives of the business.

Copy Data Lifecycle

ManageOperationally efficient copy data management is critical to drive down cost and complexity. Catalogic ECX enables IT to very quickly and easily establish all of the policies that create and manage local and remote Snapshot, SnapMirror and SnapVault copies for all NetApp storage volumes and VMware virtual machines in their environment. With ECX, Snapshots, SnapMirrors and SnapVaults are deployed across the environment, including the cloud, and are aligned with the SLAs established by the lines of business and the IT team. ECX enables simple, one-click automation for all copy data workflows for NetApp and VMware environments; the flexible and robust platform allows IT to establish policies that are optimized for the business processes they support. Policies can range from simple ones that create a single local Snapshot once per day, to more complex policies involving multiple local and remote copies of every volume or VM. Creating these workflows through ECX saves administrators time, drives repeatability of best practices, and reduces copy data sprawl of data copies that never get used, all of which drive out complexity and significantly reduce CapEx and OpEx. ECX eliminates the dependency on custom scripts which are hard to maintain, often fail and don’t provide IT with any insight into their service levels. ECX provides service-level and exception-based reporting, as well as detailed logging, allowing IT to manage and diagnose failures faster and help ensure service level agreements, or SLAs with the business.

Orchestrate The ability to utilize copy data across the enterprise and cloud for multiple use cases is one of the key value drivers of copy data management. Catalogic ECX is the first software-only copy data management platform that enables IT administrators to take advantage of the data copies they create through the copy data workflow. ECX allows IT to automate and orchestrate otherwise complex data reuse scenarios for multiple business solutions such as recovery, DR, test/dev and analytics quickly and easily. This orchestration includes storage and VMware infrastructures. These use data workflows instantaneously allow IT to deliver services that are often otherwise failing or have been deemed next to possible to implement. Business operations such as DR can be automated so that they can be tested and validated every day. The power of the ECX platform enables the resources used for these business operations to be brought up in a fenced environment, promoted to production quickly with the push of a button, or torn down and cleaned up after a test. Orchestration drives home repeatability and auditability, allowing you to leverage a single copy of your data for multiple purposes, reducing data sprawl, lowering costs and saving money.

AnalyzeThe objective of a good data management platform is to turn data into information, and information into insight. ECX includes an extremely powerful analytical framework that can aggregate and present information based on data that is collected from NetApp and VMware infrastructures. This is made possible because of both the rich metadata collected and the relationships established between these data sets that ECX establishes after data collection. ECX uses graph DB algorithms to establish relationships between the various objects so that you can track the life cycle of your data and its copies created through vaulting and mirroring. This framework allows ECX to establish provenance and track all versions and copies of your primary data.


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Visibility and insight are critical to managing any environment; managing copy data is no different. Catalogic ECX provides detailed insight across Data ONTAP 7-Mode, Clustered Data ONTAP, Cloud ONTAP and VMware environments for all locations in the enterprise (local and remote) and cloud. These analytics begin with an actionable catalog that allows IT to search all of the existing file metadata, Snapshots, SnapMirrors, SnapVaults and hypervisor components. Additionally, ECX provides storage administrators with over 30 pre-defined reports for file analysis; Files Analytics, Protection Compliance, Storage Protection and Storage Utilization reports can quickly deliver valuable insight to the IT team. These reports can help IT plan how to achieve better control of the data in their environment and enable planning for a number of business operations, including migration to Clustered Data ONTAP. Ultimately, service level reporting allows IT to manage and diagnose their environments faster and help ensure compliance. All reports can be customized to match the required operational criteria, scheduled and emailed to an administrator or business line manager or run on an ad hoc basis.

ECX for VMware and NetApp StorageEvery day, more and more administrators are realizing that housing their VMware datastores on NetApp primary storage (both NFS and block – FC, iSCSI) greatly reduces the overhead required for managing their virtual environment. NetApp storage can be provisioned quickly and easily, and built-in deduplication and compression can provide increased storage efficiency. The combination of NetApp and VMware allows ECX to demonstrate its power as a platform by providing integration into both storage and virtual infrastructures. Workflows can be created that provide a snapshot at the VMware Datastore or virtual machine level, depending on the requirements of the storage and VM administrators. At the virtual machine level, an administrator can define a workflow for copying anything from individual virtual machines and folders, to vApps or entire Datacenters. Databases and applications running within these virtual machines can be quiesced to ensure application consistency when a snapshot is taken. When used in conjunction with cascaded data copy workflows for defining additional mirror and vaulting operations, ECX 2.0 delivers a powerful solution to provide data accessibility to NetApp storage and VMware virtual infrastructures for multiple business solutions. Additionally, all snapshots, vaults and mirrors can be tracked through an actionable catalog that forms the basis of exception and compliance reporting through scheduled reports and dashboards designed for daily monitoring and auditing.

How ECX WorksCatalogic ECX catalogs your NetApp and VMware environments allowing you to manage, orchestrate and analyze your existing files, Snapshots, SnapMirrors, and SnapVaults to identify, fix and ultimately avoid the data challenges you have in your environment.

How Catalogic ECX Works

Fig. 2 — Catalogic Software, ECX workflow


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Installation / Implementation ECX software installs as a virtual machine within 15 minutes in your environment. Once installed, ECX can begin cataloging, and does not require the deployment of any agents. ECX leverages the NetApp storage in your environment, so there is no need to rip and replace or add storage capacity, and it can be deployed without impacting ongoing projects.

Upon deployment, the memory, network and disk configuration are automatically configured. These parameters can be easily adjusted, depending on the amount of data within your environment that may need to be cataloged. Each appliance can handle hundreds of millions of objects hosted across a number of storage controllers and vCenters across multiple sites. The ECX catalog is a centralized database that can be accessed by multiple administrators without any impact on production systems. It is built upon the powerful MongoDB database – the same technology that powers the New York Times, eBay, and Craigslist databases.

Registration / ConfigurationOnce the ECX virtual machine is installed, the next step is to register the NetApp controllers and VMware and vCenter resources that you want to catalog and manage. Figure 3 shows the asset registration within the ECX interface, administrators specify the site of each asset they want to register. Once registered, ECX uses vendor APIs to auto-discover information on the storage controllers and vCenter servers. ECX also supports integration with Active Directory for user authentication, and takes advantage of SMTP servers to send emails and alerts. Registration is a one-time-per-resource setup process that can be completed by providing a resolvable host name or IP addresses, along with authentication credentials.

ECX Resource Registration

Fig. 3 — Catalogic Software, ECX Resource Registration Interface

Creating ECX WorkflowsNow that the NetApp and VMWare assets are registered in ECX, it is time to start creating workflows. There are four basic workflow types that can be created: catalog data, copy data, use data and analyze data. Each workflow is a policy that can be configured to run based either on a schedule, or on an ad hoc basis, as desired. Our monitor screen, in Figure 4, shows which workflows are scheduled and non-scheduled, along with their current status.

The ECX cataloging workflow is set up to determine which specific resources will be cataloged and the schedule to be used for refreshing the cataloged data. As the catalog workflow runs, ECX talks directly to the Data ONTAP operating system of the NetApp


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storage controller and to VMware vCenter to gather the metadata and relationships about all objects contained within them. The time to run each catalog is dependent upon the number of resources and objects. High-level scans on NetApp Storage and VMware resources can take as little as a few minutes to as much as an hour or two. Low-level scans on NetApp files can take anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days, again depending on the number of objects in the environment. (On average, ECX 2.0 can catalog low-level objects at the rate of 3M to 5M objects per hour.) ECX file and snapshot cataloging has low impact on storage controllers because it leverages Data ONTAP’s SnapDiff API to gather changes between snapshots in the most efficient way possible. This is a significant advantage over alternative methods that use CIFS/NFS sessions, which are time-and resource-intensive, and require extensive setup.

Creation of ECX Workflows

Fig. 4 — Catalogic Software, ECX Workflow Creation Interface

Once the catalog is created, it can deliver immediate value. For example, the entire catalog is searchable through our built-in tools. ECX’s powerful search capabilities are built upon Lucene Search (the same technology that drives Twitter Search), providing instant visibility and insight into your data and its copies. Searches can be executed using basic patterns such as snapshot or file names, but also through an extensive set of wildcard characters. ECX also allows users to narrow down the search results based on size, location, type etc. Search results can be downloaded as a .csv file for further analysis or reference.

The data catalog is available for access through ECX’s extensible technology platform for data visualization and reporting. ECX contains over 30 built-in reports, as show in Figure 5, based on five main categories: File Analytics, Protection Compliance, Storage Protection, Storage Utilization and System Management. Creating and customizing reports is simple, and allows administrators to tailor reports for specific needs. These reports can be scheduled to run on a regular basis (as well as ad hoc), and can be emailed to you in a variety of formats, including PDF, Excel, Word, or HTML.

These analytics enable IT to understand how best to leverage the data copies within their environment. This unprecedented insight into enterprise data often highlights the need to streamline and gain control of the business operations workflows that create data copies.


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ECX Automation and OrchestrationThe day-to-day responsibilities of storage administrators involve a number of tasks, such as provisioning storage, ensuring uptime, and providing data copies for multiple business operations. Copy data lifecycle workflows provide the storage administrator with an intuitive and efficient means of defining best practices for managing and leveraging their copy data for a number of business solutions, including recovery, DR, forensics, DevOps and analytics. ECX 2.0 creates copy data workflows for NetApp storage and VMware infrastructure. Invoking functionality native to NetApp (volume Snapshots, SnapMirror, SnapVault and FlexClones) and VMware (VM snapshots, VM Tools, etc.), an administrator can easily define a workflow through a single interface that is comprised of any combination of these tasks.

As an example, storage administrators may be required to keep multiple daily and/or weekly snapshots for virtual machines, and to mirror those snapshots to a different location for disaster recovery (DR) purposes. An administrator may also want to add additional vault and mirror operations to the respective snapshots. Such tasks can easily be defined and executed in the ECX 2.0 interface, which takes advantage of options available within NetApp storage, including thin provisioning, deduplication, space reservation, throttling, and more. With ECX, an administrator now has the capability to define and schedule this copy data workflow through a single pane of glass, and to effortlessly establish enterprise-wide Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with just a few clicks.

ECX Report Browser

Fig. 5 — Catalogic Software, Predefined reports for ECX


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Copy Data WorkflowCreating copy data workflows in ECX is very intuitive, and the interface provides a wizard that walks the administrator though the process, as shown in Figure 6. Creating snaps, vaults and mirrors is as simple as selecting the desired option from a drop-down menu. The wizard only presents options that are supported by the underlying foundation, ensuring that you don’t create workflows that can’t be executed. Once a workflow is created, ECX takes care of the relationships between the snaps, mirrors and vaults, and provisions the necessary volumes for you. Next, ECX prompts for the location and retention of the data. This allows administrators to locate their copy data where they may want to leverage it for different business solutions, including in the cloud, utilizing Cloud ONTAP. ECX provides granular control over VMware data copy workflows, allowing administrators to take file and application-consistent snapshots.

Use Data WorkflowOnce administrators have created a copy data workflow, they can be used to support a broad range of business needs. Use data workflows allow administrators to take advantage of their copy data efficiently. For example, an administrator may want to recover mission critical VMs at a co-location facility in a fenced virtual test network, so that the data can be used by application developers and testers that want to work with the latest production data without affecting production. Organizations that rely on DevOps for rapid software release and testing can take advantage of these workflows to build their staging environments in minutes, with no scripting or human involvement required. Environments can be set up faster and with a higher degree of accuracy as these workflows are automated.

Similarly, for organizations that want to make use of the flexible compute resources available in their private or hybrid clouds, VMware use data workflows can be used to bring up any set of VMs or vApps for a number of use cases.

ECX allows use data workflows to be configured in various sites, using different data copy versions, to meet any business requirement, including DR. These features allow organizations to plan for disasters and to be prepared with more than one option at any time. These

ECX Workflow Automation

Fig. 6 — Catalogic Software, ECX Copy Data workflow Interface


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use data workflows can support a number of additional use cases, such as analytics, reporting and forensics as well.

NetApp Storage Use Data WorkflowCreating a use data workflow is as simple as creating a copy data workflow. The NetApp use data policies drive bottom-up, storage-centric workflows dealing with the primitive storage objects: NetApp volumes and files. The NetApp use data policies are focused on instant access of volumes and files for rapid recovery using the native NetApp capabilities. These policies rely on the user to understand what things live on the volumes (the VMs, vApp, datastore, or VM disks) as they are doing a brick-level access/recovery operation. Users can restore files, directories and volumes, and leverage any snapshot as a CIFS/NFS share. Additional use data workflows can be leveraged to ‘restore volumes’ or ‘restore files’, as shown in Figure 7 – both geared for quick data access.

NetApp Use Data Policy

Fig. 7 — Catalogic Software, ECX NetApp Workflow Interface

The flexibility of the Instant Access method allows a copy of a volume or file to be available for access instantaneously, as it looked at a specified snapshot, with no additional impact on the storage system. Similarly, any subset of files and directories can be accessed from any of the copies created via ECX copy workflows. Data copy use destinations are defined and automatically created on the desired NetApp storage system. As with copy data workflows, use data workflows are automated and can be scheduled, providing you with


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access to your data wherever and whenever you need it.

When creating a use data workflow, the administrator selects a specific site from which to leverage the source data. During workflow creation, ECX presents you with a full fidelity view of which sites contain the copies of data you wish to leverage, and allows the administrator to choose the site that best meets the business needs.

VMware Use Data WorkflowWith ECX, entire VM(s), vApps, and sites can be brought up through VMware use data workflows. The VMware use data policies drive top-down workflows dealing with the VMware hypervisor objects: VMs, vApps, folders of VMs, VM disks, datastores. The VMware use data policies are focused on the scenarios involving the hypervisor-based objects (top-down), as shown in Figure 8. ECX determines the appropriate mappings of those hypervisor objects to storage and storage snapshots. Similar to NetApp recovery, these VMs can be recovered within seconds, providing instant access to the selected objects as they looked at the time of a specified snapshot. VMs can be provisioned with pre-defined attributes such as Datastores and virtual network selections to avoid conflicts IP addresses and naming for recovering data back to production or test. VMs can also be recovered with Instant Virtualization (IV).

ECX IV is much more than a simple instant access process. Instant virtualization actually instantiates running VMs and vApps as they looked at the time of the snapshot. This means that ECX is actually starting up OS’s with application workloads on them, which can be used to support three different modes of operation: Test, Clone, and Recovery.

VMware Use Data Policy

Fig. 8 — Catalogic Software, ECX VMware Use Data Workflow Interface


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Test ModeTest mode is used to do just that – test the recovery of a select set of VMs, vApps, etc. The test VMs are brought up within a fenced network so that they do not collide with the concurrently running production VMs. IT must realize that the test VMs selected contain the same exact applications and OS’s as the running sources. The test VM’s are run off of snapshot clones, and when the user is finished with the test, the ECX job automatically cleans up all the test resources. Test modes can be used to test DR, to run test/dev, to validate snapshots, and so on. IT can decide to run the test machines locally (with the same site) or at a remote site. IT should be aware that the test VMs will consume the same CPU/memory/storage resources as the production VMs, which is why most users elect to perform their large-scale testing at remote sites. Test mode supports three actions while active: End Test, Move to Production/RRP, and Move to Clone.

Recovery ModeRecovery mode is used to restore the production VMs to the state contained within the selected snapshots. It is a restore that is a replace (or overwrite) of the original VMs with the restored images. Please note that IT can first elect to run a policy in test mode to verify that the VMs and contained applications are in the desired state before replacing the production machines via Move to Production/RRP. In either case, recovery mode first gets the production VMs up and running off of snapshot clones (for speed) before moving them (while operational) via storage vMotion to permanent storage. The end result of recovery mode is the restoration (or overwrite) of the production VMs to the state contained with the selected snapshot(s).

Clone ModeClone mode is used to create separate running copies of the original VMs within a fenced network for an extended period of time. Running off of snapshot clones is not recommended for long-term use, as they are differential images from the original source disk. Clone mode first gets the clone VMs up and running off of snapshot clones within a fenced network and then moves those VMs off of temporary snapshot clones (via storage vMotion) to more permanent storage. The clone machines are run within a fenced network to prevent them from colliding with the original production VMs – again, the clone VMs are running the same OS’s and applications as the source. As with recovery mode, IT can first run test mode and then decide to clone (vs. recover/restore original).

Special Notes on Instant Access and Instant Virtualization; Instant Access and the traditional restore scenarios do not have a concept of ‘modes’; only Instant Virtualization does.

IT should also be aware that ECX leverages VMware Storage vMotion for both IV recovery and IV clone modes in this release, as it allows ECX to recover (operate against) different sets of VMs independent of where the VMs reside across the NetApp storage. Future releases will avoid using Storage vMotion by leverage the NetApp storage mirror reverse/split clone operations instead, but those storage operations operate against the entire volume (volume sets), which in turn apply to all the VMs contained by those volumes.

Integration with ECX – RESTful APIsThe Catalogic ECX platform also provides RESTful APIs that can accelerate time-to-value for administrators that want to manage and report through their own portal, and enable ISV’s and MSP’s to create their own set of services.

Financial ImpactCatalogic ECX is the industry’s only copy data management software platform that helps IT administrators to solve copy data sprawl without having to rip and replace, taking full advantage of existing infrastructure instead. ECX provides a single interface for the


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creation and utilization of snaps, leveraging NetApp and VMware capabilities.

ECX delivers a copy data management platform that helps your IT staff reduce the costs required to house and manage your data, as well as providing automation that allows you to better utilize your copy data, giving you back time to work on projects that make your business money. The more you catalog with ECX, the more you save. Independent analyst firm Wikibon did a TCO/ROI review of the impact of a catalog to help IT gain control over their data. Figure 9 shows the different business functions within IT, their relative costs and how ECX can help save in those areas. (For the full Wikibon report go to: www.wikibon.org/wiki/v/catalog_software_solves_copy_data_chaos.)

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Fig. 8 — Wikibon, Impact of Catalogic ECX

In addition, the more filers you have, the more savings you get from the EXC solution. The more business solutions that leverage ECX, the more you save driving a tremendous amount of storage efficiency in your environment.


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Impact of Catalogic ECX

Fig. 10 — Wikibon, ECX VMware Workflow Interface

The impact of ECX is transformational; yet implementing ECX is quick and easy. Within a few minutes of deploying ECX, administrators can start to see the return on their investment. The visibility and insight ECX provides helps IT understand where their data copies are getting out of control, and can help to bring them back under control. The ECX catalog is also the best way to understand where your snapped, vaulted and mirrored data lives, which allows you to better utilize those copies for daily business needs. Operations you wish you could do today with your backup software but can’t, are easy to execute with ECX. ECX helps you eliminate the need for the expensive software licenses and disk targets associated with traditional data protection.

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ConclusionCopy data accounts for as much as 65% of the data in today’s infrastructure. Primary data is copied repetitively to support a number of business solutions. These business solutions include recovery, DR, forensics, DevOps and analytics, which tend to create the bulk of the data copies in your environment. IT is constantly caught between the need to have copies of production data available for these business solutions and the challenges associated with managing these data copies. As IT budgets continue to be squeezed, and IT personnel are asked to get more out of the infrastructure they have, getting control of the geometric storage growth caused by copy data is a top priority for storage administrators everywhere.

ECX takes a holistic approach to solving copy data challenges. The ability to manage, orchestrate and analyze your data using ECX helps you fix problems created in the past, address inefficiencies in the present and avoid copy data sprawl in the future.

About Catalogic SoftwareCatalogic Software is the leading software provider of instant copy data solutions. Data is more critical to business than ever. Business must leverage their data copies to deliver operational efficiencies, while simultaneously delivering greater business agility. The next great leap in Data Management will be Copy Data Management. Our solutions provide for instant visibility of copy data or files in an environment and provide instant data access for recovery, Disaster recovery, test/dev, DevOps and business analytics.