Backup and recovery remains a top challenge for many IT organizations as part of their overall business continuance strategy. Protecting data becomes even more challenging with fast-growing amounts of data, the need to support a dynamic business model, regulations for data retention, and shrinking recovery time objectives.

Brocade backup and recovery solutions for ESCON and FICON environments help organizations with all facets of backup and recovery, from developing a more cost-effective enterprise backup and recovery strategy to looking at new disk-based alternatives that improve data availability. Leveraging unique Brocade FICON read and write tape performance acceleration techniques, tape and virtual tape resources can now be located anywhere, dramatically improving data backup and recovery time over any distance.

Brocade backup and recovery solutions include:

• Enterprise backup and recovery strategy, design, and implementation
• Enterprise backup consolidation
• Tape backup optimization
• Backup to disk and virtual tape library strategy, design, and implementation
• Shared tape storage across multiple storage networks
• Remote tape vaulting
• MAN/WAN connectivity services for remote tape applications