Monday 2 December 2013

How to backup Big Data?


The industry has been struggling a lot with the backups of the data they have been having for long now. Traditional tape based backup solutions seem good only for small size environments now. Though they have been growing in individual capacities and number of slots, better disk based options are pushing them more towards being secondary rather than the primary backup mediums.
Big data needs better care anyway for being big, and perhaps a bit more meaningful than the databases with invoice records or product records. The new technologies like deduplication and better compression algorithms like LZOB and ZLIB are making it more cost effective to back them up by bringing down their size.
What is also important is the cost of retaining this large volume of data and the varied sources of this unstructured data.
Ace Data’s Abhraya Cloud based backup offering resolves this challenge for its customers. Its flexible backup policies allow organizations to keep latest data close to them locally, and send the remaining to a cloud based offering. Being cloud based, they pay for what they backup and not invest on large growth assumptions. Furthermore as the backup grows old, it can be automatically archived to low cost disks reducing the cost of long term retention while ensuring data availability for long time.
The solution is capable of backing up smartphones, mobile laptops, large volumes of file servers apart from backing up the large servers and databases thereby ensuring that all sources of data can be backed up through a single solution.

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