Backup & Recovery Analysis Modelling Service (BRAMS)

The Backup & Recovery Analysis & Modelling Service (BRAMS) collects information from backup systems. This information is used to report on overall backup performance and business workloads, and profile your backup environment maximising technology throughput for optimal backup – and recovery – reliability and performance.

In the period up to 2011, IDC estimates 1,150 Billion Gigabytes of storage capacity will be shipped to businesses worldwide, helping them to cope with an incredible 10x growth in the digital universe over the same period.

As well as having to support these ever increasing data volumes, every organisation faces a growing number of Data Protection challenges including:

Meeting increasing compliance requirements for retention and encryption
Decreasing backup windows
Meeting recovery time objectives
Backup & restore reliability
Making multiple backup copies
Responding to individual restore requests
Reducing operational & management costs
Planning for capacity growth
Providing coherent Disaster Recovery strategy

A key issue is maximising the use and efficiency of existing infrastructure, particularly in optimising the use of high‐speed sequential media such as tape.

The other key factor is that there are a growing range of Data Management Approaches and solutions which can be exploited including:

Backup to disk
Data de‐duplication
Snapshot for instant backup and Restore
Continuous Data Protection
Virtual Tape Libraries
MAID disk technology

In summary, the key challenge is to select and deploy the optimal mix of technologies to meet these increasingly complex business requirements.