LightEdge Managed Backup solves the challenges associated with traditional backup, enabling fast, reliable backup and recovery for remote offices, data center LANs and VMware® environments. The LightEdge backup and recovery platform utilizes patented data de-duplication technology from EMC to identify redundant data segments at the source (or client), reducing daily backup data by up to 500x - before it is transferred across the network and stored to disk. This allows companies to optimize their WAN bandwidth and encrypt backup data for additional security.

One of the key drivers impacting backup performance is the growing volume of data that must be protected in a shortening backup window. Traditional solutions are inefficient because they back up everything - including duplicate data files and sub-file data segments that exist across the corporate network. When combined with traditional incremental and weekly full backup schedules, the impact of duplicate data is staggering - companies often move more than 200 percent of their primary data every week.

The impact is more pronounced in virtualized environments. On virtual platforms, each virtual machine represents an individual backup job, often with concurrent or overlapping backup windows, and includes redundant operating system, application and file data. As a result, backups for virtual machines can often tax shared physical resources and potentially overrun the backup window leaving data unprotected.

Managed Backup and Recovery Options
For something as important as the backup and recovery of your businesses most critical data, there is no “one size fits all” solution. LightEdge has many ways to secure your businesses data based on your size, industry and regulatory compliance needs.

• Internet
  Backup agents are installed on customer servers, data is backed up to LightEdge storage grid over the Internet
  
  
• Remote
  Backup agents are installed on customer servers, data is backed up to LightEdge storage grid over the company’s LightEdge WAN
  
  
• Local Data Center Backup
  A customer server within the LightEdge data center is backed up to local data center storage grid
  
  
• Local Data Center Backup with Replication
  A customer server within the LightEdge data center is backed up to the local data center storage grid and replicated to the grid in a remote LightEdge data center
  
  
• Vaulting Only
  A customer server within the LightEdge data center is backed up to a remote data center only