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EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.5 for Automated Management of Backup, Replication, and More

EMC recently announced Data Protection Advisor 5.5, the latest version of its software tool for managing data protection environments with real-time monitoring, analysis, and reporting (formerly known as Backup Advisor).

"Have you ever taken an automobile to a repair shop and had the mechanic say, “If we replace this part, it might fix the problem. That will cost $500.” After replacing the part, the problem is still there and the mechanic says, “Well, we could try replacing this other part…” And so it goes, part by part, running up the bill, until finally the problem is fixed by a process of elimination. “Wow, if we had only known from the start what exactly caused the problem.” "Maintaining and repairing a data protection environment can be similarly challenging, because backup and replication systems are complex and depend on all the elements of an IT environment and the interconnections between them, including applications, servers, virtualization layers, networking, and storage. In fact, managing data protection can be even more challenging than fixing a car because you may not know a problem exists until an application goes down and immediate data recovery is a necessity. This is definitely not the time you want to discover that a backup job did not complete or that the replication mirror is not current!"