A Commvault® real-time transformation workshop. Navigating a diverse ... positioning production and data ... 2015 Commv
DATA PROTECTION A Commvault® real-time transformation workshop Navigating a diverse mix of emerging technologies, changing business needs and rising data protection costs is challenging IT leaders everywhere. The need to recover data is universal, and there are a number of hurdles related to designing, building and maintaining a transformative data protection environment. To succeed, organizations must be able to answer such questions as: “How do I protect Big Data effectively?”; “Where does cloud fit into my solution today and in the future?”; “What should I do about dark data?”; and “How can I be more efficient?” Balancing data growth, budget constraints and technology advancement against myriad business
goals requires an understanding of pragmatic servicelevel objectives, like RTO and RPO, as well as a keen awareness of technology trends. During Commvault’s Data Protection workshop, our consultants serve as trusted advisors. They will partner with you to prioritize business requirements, unlock the potential of your current data protection environment, envision a transformative future state, and develop a pragmatic strategy and roadmap to achieve it. Take control. Learn how to protect, access and use all of your data to its full advantage.
Workshop Benefits • Develop a clear understanding of the requirements for strategically positioning production and data copies and managing business unit expectations for data recovery, along with the ability of key technologies to achieve these requirements
• Ensure that business require ments are aligned with a sound data protection design and implementation plan, while validating that key costs and risks are being adequately considered
• Gain the consensus of key business and IT stakeholders for a highlevel data protection strategy and implementation roadmap
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Workshop Elements
Representative Workshop Agenda and Outcomes
APPROACH
PREPARATION
• An intensive, interactive session to assess and evaluate the impact of current recovery abilities on your business, with real-time analysis, recommendations and deliverables • The session evaluates current recovery capabilities, presents design options and discusses tactics to adjust the environment to meet your data protection needs
The focus of the workshop is to understand the expectations of the data protection team’s business units, technologies, existing or new data centers and current recovery capabilities. To meet these goals, it is important that key business and IT personnel should attend. At a minimum, a sample workshop team should include:
OUTCOME
• Executive sponsor
• Rapid assessment of the alignment between business requirements and requirements for both current and future data protection capabilities
• Data protection lead
• Global examination of data, business unit expectations and current/future technologies • Practical and immediate suggestions to achieve goals, and recommended areas for automation, where applicable • An action plan for transforming existing data protection capabilities PARTICIPANTS
• Your key business and IT leaders • Commvault industry experts and consultants LOCATION
In person, at a mutually agreed upon location DURATION
Typically 4 hours
INFORMATION REQUIRED
• Essential business requirements for current data protection, prior to the workshop
• Storage lead • Networking lead • Business continuity/disaster recovery lead • Any applicable or specific business owners or application team leads AGENDA
• Confirm goals, risks and critical success factors for developing a business-aligned data protection environment • Evaluate key business unit/application requirements, capacities and sizing information • Discuss current capabilities and future technology options • Construct a list of next steps (e.g., complete sizing information, a comprehensive list of equipment needed, services requirements and proposal pricing) • Develop a plan for acquiring, designing, implementing and managing a recovery environment
• IT environmental details, including data capacities, prior to the workshop • Executive input engagement, during the workshop • Knowledge of applications and business function importance
Discover how to make your data work more strategically.
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