Backup & Recovery – Avamar Axion makes efficient use of disk storage to provide highly reliable backup and fast recovery for enterprise systems. By only moving and storing small, unique changes in data, Axion dramatically reduces network loads and shortens backup times. With its Archive Out feature, Axion interoperates with all major tape systems.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery – With its high efficiency architecture, Avamar Replicator can play an important role in an enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. Replicator provides cost-effective, efficient replication across the WAN in order to meet business continuity requirements for heterogeneous systems. Replicator is layered upon the Axion foundation, making additional use of Axion’s consolidated storage.

Data Security and Encryption – Shipping tapes offsite for disaster recovery puts data at risk for theft and loss. Worse, recent legislation in both California and New York forces corporations to publicize losses of customer data. Avamar Replicator provides an automated, digital, and encrypted alternative to shipping tapes. With its high efficiency technology, Replicator enables cost-effective and secure replication across the WAN for fully electronic disaster recovery. Replicator is layered upon the Axion foundation, which includes Verify, a sophisticated integrity checking application that ensures all data backups can be restored to their original state.

Remote Office Protection – Enterprises leave significant information assets at risk in remote offices, using legacy tape solutions and unreliable, decentralized management. Axion and Replicator reduce daily network traffic for data protection by up to 99.7%, allowing enterprises to automate protection across the WAN for data in remote offices. In a remote office, Axion can back up systems directly across the WAN or first to a local Axion system, which can then be replicated to a centralized data center.

Legal Discovery and Support for Regulatory Compliance – By efficiently using disk storage, Axion can provide cost effective storage for multi-year archives that are all available on demand. More importantly, Axion plugins enable qualified applications to search across consolidated archives in order to meet legal discovery requests or comply with regulations. Axion’s centralized management makes it easy to keep sets of data for specified retention periods and audit administrative changes. Axion includes Verify, a sophisticated integrity checking application that ensures all data backups can be restored to their original state. In addition, Axion’s Archive Out feature can leverage existing tape solutions for generating archives on removable media, without impacting client systems. Finally, Axion’s content addressed storage (CAS) technology ensures that all archives are fully non-rewritable.