SonicWALL CDP Appliance

Over 30% of IT costs are associated with data backup

20% of nightly tape-based backup jobs fail

40% of IT Managers can’t recover data from their backup tape.

The majority of IT Managers and Business Owners agree that tape does not work. Tape drive is just not reliable. Ironically, most organizations are still using fixed-schedule antiquated tape systems that are subject to human error, cumbersome to manage and notoriously unreliable.

Any backup is only as reliable as its ability to restore business data and applications when they are needed most. Small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) need to protect not only their data, but also the systems that access that data, such as Exchange, SQL Server and Active Directory. SMBs also need the performance to backup and restore rapidly expanding volumes of data, while meeting stricter regulatory compliance for data archiving. And should disaster strike, SMBs need the flexibility to immediately recover the most current data to new locations or computer platforms.

SonicWALL� Continuous Data Protection (CDP) offers the only complete end-to-end disk-based backup and recovery solution for SMBs. CDP lets you reduce not just system downtime, but greatly reduces the workload of your IT staff.

SonicWALL CDP features automatic transparent backup, user directed restore, flexible disaster recovery options and low-touch administration. With capacity of up to 9 TB at typical 2:1 compression, GbE connectivity, RAID 5 and replaceable components, CDP solutions are designed to meet today’s demanding requirements for performance and reliability.

An ideal replacement for tape-based systems, CDP solutions provides foolproof, intuitive continual protection.

CDP solutions ensure reliability and speed recovery by automatically generating e-mail alerts on any compromised connectivity as well as regularly scheduled reports on backup activity. Extensible across multiple platforms including Windows and Linux�, CDP solutions can instantly recover data, applications or entire workstation or server systems onto original, new or virtual devices. CDP solutions secure data using industry-standard encryption anytime it is transmitted off site, offering complete business information availability for servers, desktops and mobile laptops.

Features and Benefits

Automatic, transparent backup ensures that data, applications and systems are reliably protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack.

User-directed restore increases user satisfaction and productivity while freeing IT resources.

Low-touch administration is delivered through the automation of tedious backup administrative tasks.

Flexible disaster recovery options provided are for Off site Data Backup, Site-to-Site Data Backup and Local Archiving, as well as Bare Metal Recovery of complete systems—OS, files, applications, databases and settings—
in just minutes.

Enforced policy-based backup provides a peace of mind that comes with being in control of all business critical data. Administrators can easily preconfigure set policies to ensure that specific business critical files, folders or applications are backed up, and to assign end-users rights to allow them to retrieve their own data.

Wide range of models to support SMB. CDP 110, CDP210, CDP 5040 and CDP 6080 appliances are scaled to fit the budget, performance, and capacity needs of any SMB.

Instant data recovery and file versions ensures that all files are instantly and continually available in multiple historic versions, and also that all servers and their applications—including Exchange, SQL Server and Active Directory—are protected with multiple-point-in-time recovery in case of disaster. CDP version catalogs minimize downtime by enabling easy, instant, pick-and-click data recovery of files and even individual Exchange Mailboxes.