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According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HP, more than half of organizations plan to increase their focus on, and budget related to, backup and recovery in 2009.
HP Data Protector has been enhanced to help customers address their main priorities in data security, regulatory compliance, consolidation and virtualization.

The new advancements to HP Data Protector, coupled with HP Software’s zero percent financing option, gives customers a flexible sourcing option to address their most critical pain points today, while preparing for success upon the return of the economy.

HP Data Protector delivers new capabilities to support customers’ backup and recovery challenges, allowing them to:

• Decrease the risk of information loss with complete protection for VMware Infrastructure environments. HP Data Protector supports eight different methods of VMware Infrastructure protection including integration with the VMware Consolidated Backup framework for scalable, non-disruptive backup of virtual machines. This allows customers to choose specific recovery point/recovery time objectives for their information with one product and one user interface. As a result, backup administrators can focus on high-value responsibilities without specific expertise in VMware virtualization. With this new feature, HP Data Protector addresses a key priority for organizations in 2009: virtualization. As many as 96 percent of enterprises indicated that server virtualization will have an impact on their backup strategy.

• Lower IT costs with the most flexible data reduction options on the market. The process of removing duplicate copies of information, referred to as deduplication— continues to be a critical need for organizations. As many as 71 percent of companies HP surveyed said deduplication technologies will be critical to their organization in reducing the overall cost of data storage in 2009. HP Data Protector offers flexible options for optimizing storage capacity, allowing customers to reduce their data footprint by choosing the data reduction and deduplication methods that best meet their needs.

• Reduce business risks associated with data security and compliance. HP Data Protector now offers centralized encryption key management. This was identified by 84 percent of organizations as a critical data protection feature.

• Deliver faster backup and recovery time to value. Organizations are still focused on solving basic backup challenges. HP research indicates 63 percent of all IT decision makers are focused on simply improving success rates of their data backup and recovery initiatives. HP Data Protection Services provide customers with upfront consulting on best practices to ensure improved information compliance, as well as rapid implementation of the software. In addition, customers can lower their storage optimization costs with these services.

HP also introduced two new HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA6400/8400) and the enhanced HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) that extend the value of HP Data Protector.
By providing seamless integration between the new HP EVA, HP SVSP and

HP Data Protector, customers benefit from the strengths of both HP hardware and software for the complete solution for VMware Infrastructure data protection in the industry. Customers benefit from optimized backup of data replicated on virtual storage, with no impact to their production environments.