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Article Excerpt
Over the last several years an emerging data protection technology has come into the market, called continuous data protection or CDP. The term CDP has gotten heavy usage while the adoption of CDP has been relatively modest. CDP has the potential of freeing customers from the grip of traditional tape backup technologies, but is CDP really the next wave of backup and recovery?
The promise of CDP is that it can protect any data, anywhere in the data center and recover a consistent version of the data as it existed at a specific-point-in-time. This article explores CDP technology and offers guidance when choosing a data protection solution.
Today's businesses are faced with an ever-increasing amount of data, threatening to undermine their existing storage management solutions. Creating a copy of yesterday's changed data and running it to tape is no longer adequate to support the real-time requirements of today's business. Critical data changes occur throughout the day, and to protect this data, customers are frequently turning to technologies such as CDP to offer improved recovery times.
How Did CDP Get Started?
Continuous data protection came into use about three years ago and since then, many different vendors soon touted their solution as CDP. This caused a lot of confusion in the industry, as each vendor claimed to have the only "true" CDP solution. To mitigate this, in January...
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