Solution Brief - SEP sesam and Red Hat

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SEP SESAM AND RED HAT - A SEAMLESS SOLUTION FOR BACKUP, DISASTER RECOVERY, AND REPLICATION

Collaborate Without
Compromise

After a decade of
close partnership, SEP Software Corp. and Red Hat continue to collaborate to
deliver solutions that help customers improve productivity and data
accessibility. Based on proven real-world deployments, SEP sesam has
complimented the power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and combined it with SEP’s
patented Multi-Streaming Technology. This combination delivers critical backup
and disaster recovery (down to bare metal) solutions. This collaboration has
allowed the partnership to jointly develop solutions for varied system
topologies and has helped organizations meet or exceed Recovery Point
Objectives (RPO). Now with Red Hat’s innovative enterprise storage solution,
SEP sesam provides an unmatched backup and disaster recovery solution for any
environment. 

Proven
Benefits:

• Innovation – SEP Software and Red Hat powered
  innovation revolutionizes data management and improves business continuity.
• Simplicity - Starting with the initial
  installation, SEP provides a robust, easy-to-manage solution that makes everything
  simple and efficient without compromising features or functionality. SEP
  conveniently provides easy data management, service and support from a single
  console.
• Reliability - SEP sesam backup and disaster
  recovery for Red Hat is an end-to-end
  solution that provides integrated data management for the Red Hat Storage
  environment. SEP sesam’s advanced image-level disk backup, combined with its
  patented Multi-Streaming Technology, allows system administrators to easily
  manage their Red Hat storage servers at a fraction of the cost of other storage
  solutions.
• Seamless Cloud Solution - Whether private, public, or hybrid
  cloud,SEP sesam combined with Red Hat Storage allows users
  to back up, replicate, and recover data at any time from any place.

One Backup Solution for Any Environment

With expertise in
network-wide and cross-platform data availability, SEP has developed
industry-leading, Linux platform-driven technology for data management and has
designed the fastest and most reliable data backup solution available today.
SEP sesam is ideal for businesses of all sizes and has proven its value for
thousands of organizations around the globe. Businesses and institutions
spanning six continents rely on SEP sesam to attain their data protection
strategies. SEP sesam’s design flexibility allows the user to customize a
unique backup solution to match their environment.

Backup Without Limitations

• Platform Independent -
  Supported O/S
  platforms include Windows, all popular Linux and UNIX derivatives, Solaris,
  HP/UX, Tr64, BSD (also Open VMS), and now MAC OS X.
• Incredibly Fast Backup
  Speed - Drastically reduce
  backup windows with SEP’s patented Multi-Streaming Technology, allowing a
  simultaneous backup of unlimited files or servers.
• Virtualization - Agentless solution
  backs up and restores virtual machines running VMware, Citrix XenServer, and
  Hyper-V. Online image-level backups with single-file restore options are also
  available.
• Database & Email
  Backups - Perform hot backups of
  critical databases and e-mail platforms including SAP, Oracle, MS SQL, mySQL,
  SharePoint, PostgreSQL, DB2, Exchange, GoupWise, Lotus Notes and more.
• Archiving - SEP Easy Archive uses
  WORM (Write Once Read Many) Technology to prevent unintentional loss or
  deletion of data as well as unauthorized edits.
• Deduplication - Reduces the need for
  more expensive storage and decreases backup windows.
• Replication - Assures that your data
  will be available where and when you need it.
• Migration - Easily migrate data
  files from a RHEL 4/5.x snapshot to a newer RHEL 6.x system. Users are also
  able to recover to a known good state if issues occur during an update to RHEL
  4.x or a RHEL 5.x upgrade to RHEL 6.x.
• Bare Metal Restore - Restore to like or
  unlike hardware. 

Deploying scalable,
flexible enterprise storage shouldn’t lock you into high-cost proprietary
solutions. Red Hat Storage Server helps your enterprise manage the explosion of
big, semi-structured, and unstructured data growth while maintaining the
storage performance, capacity, and availability you need to meet your most
demanding enterprise storage requirements.

Lower
Costs

Red Hat’s open software solution for
scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) lets you manage exponential data
growth at a fraction of the cost of other storage solutions.

Easily
Access Information

Whether deployed on-premise, or in a
private, public, or hybrid cloud environment, Red Hat Storage makes it easier
to access information and brings the power of community-driven innovation to
your enterprise.

Storage
Problems Solved

Red
Hat Storage Server solves enterprise storage requirements, including:

• Enterprise-wide file sharing with
  a single access point across data storage locations.
• Nearline storage for infrequently
  accessed data that needs to be online.
• Rich media (audio and video)
  content distribution with petabyte-scale storage and high-read performance
  requirements.
• High-performance storage for
  bandwidth-intensive applications like weather prediction and oil and gas
  exploration.
• Centralized Storage-as-a-Service
  to enterprise applications.
• Backup target and archive for onsite or offsite data
  protection.

Next
Steps

Contact your SEP
Software and Red Hat representatives today and arrange for an assessment of
your IT environment. Discover the benefits of migrating to Red Hat, protected
and secured by SEP sesam.