Whether you're deploying, upgrading, or migrating to 2005, you can accelerate the entire process and ensure exceptional results with Clearpath Solutions Group (Clearpath) Services along with EMC software for Microsoft SQL Server. With the enterprise-grade capabilities of SQL Server 2005 and a powerful EMC software infrastructure, you can reduce complexity and enable advanced recovery management throughout your entire organization. You'll also align your storage assets with the changing value of your information to achieve the efficiency gains and ROI of information lifecycle management.

Solutions:

Backup and Restore

Clearpath Services along with EMC software for Microsoft SQL Server meets and exceeds varying service-level requirements by using a disk-based recovery and by combining B2D capabilities and enterprise CDP technologies with online backup software.
EMC delivers a robust solution for SQL database protection that not only ensures rapid backup and recovery, it also leverages extensive data replication and continuous data protection capabilities found only in EMC information management products. If your organization requires even greater data protection, database performance, and operational efficiencies, our solution offers additional products specifically targeted for EMC storage system users.

Key Benefits

• Improved recovery point and recovery time delivery – Extend customers' recovery management alternatives for SQL to include the most recent recovery points possible.
• Increased performance – Gain faster response, shorter backup windows, and reduced storage requirements.
• Lower TCO – Reduce ongoing system storage and data replication requirements.
• Enhanced disaster protection – Create a duplicate tape offsite or leverage replication when disaster recovery is necessary.
• Greater flexibility – Restore individual files, entire file systems, or databases.
• Information lifecycle management – Streamline production/development environments and optimize backup/business continuity procedures.
• Improved versatility – Choose between several possible configurations for LAN and LAN-free backup.
• Dramatically simplified operational recovery – Automate the creation and usage of multiple copies of SQL information locally.

Consolidation and Management

Clearpath Services along with EMC software for Microsoft SQL Server migrates to a consolidated environment, strengthening your Exchange 2003 migration, security, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and e-mail compliance requirements.
With the enterprise-grade capabilities of SQL Server 2005 and powerful EMC software you can reduce complexity and enable advanced consolidation throughout your entire organization. You can also align your storage assets with the changing value of your information to achieve the efficiency gains and ROI of information lifecycle management (ILM).

Key Benefits

• Consolidated data protection – Replicate SQL data from remote branches to a central location where it can be centrally managed, backed up, and archived.
• Improved availability – Ensure capacity is available for SQL when and where it's needed by actively managing your storage resources with powerful visualization tools.
• Simplified replication management – Support Microsoft's VSS architecture so you can make hot point-in-time SQL copies without disrupting your production server.
• Shortened backup and restore times – Reduce the size of your active SQL store that needs to be backed up daily, translating to faster backups, and, most importantly, faster time to restore.
• Streamlined operations – Lower your staff's manual exchange intervention activities.
• Better forecasting – Easily plan for growth of your SQL server by assessing how quickly storage space is being consumed and predicting what usage will be over time.
• Reduced remote office expenses – Replicate SQL data to a central location, freeing staff for more strategic work.

Disaster Recovery

Clearpath Services along with EMC software for Microsoft SQL Server recovers your data from a disaster in hours instead of days, which ensures business continuity and disaster recovery functionality in your Microsoft Cluster Service (MCS) environment.
If your company relies heavily on SQL Server-based solutions every day, one of your biggest challenges is actually determining the amount of acceptable downtime for the company, and in turn, developing a thorough plan to meet these needs. EMC disaster recovery software for Microsoft SQL Server provides the level of flexibility, protection, and manageability you need to achieve your recovery time objectives for SQL Server environments. You'll increase service levels and availability, improve manageability, decrease recovery time, and more.

Key Benefits

• Enhanced SQL Server business continuity plans – Manage and automate processes required to restart and relocate the SQL Server environment.
• Improved recovery point and recovery time objectives – Leverage consistent SQL Server shadow copies for reliable recovery and availability.
• Efficient automation – Automate the SQL Server restart process, client routing to a secondary location and/or site, and select EMC replication.
• Shortened backup and restore times – Reduce the size of your active SQL store that needs to be backed up daily, translating to faster backups, and, most importantly, faster time to restore.
• Streamlined operations – Leverage reliable, pre-built SQL Server availability rules that provide fine-tuned monitoring of SQL Server environments.
• Better forecasting – Decrease the time it takes for failover and restart of SQL Server "business resource groups."
• Reduced remote office expenses – Lower your organization's IT staff manual and SQL Server intervention activities.