Backups were canceled at times in order to keep data available, which jeopardized disaster recovery readiness. Financial Benefits DaimlerChrysler cut costs by eliminating the need to purchase additional physical disk capacity in order to accomplish its backup objectives. Business Benefits Downtime associated with backups has been minimized. Disaster recovery plans are no longer at risk. Technology Benefits DB2 performs as well on the 9500 SVA as it does on any other DaimlerChrysler storage system.
Engineers are pleased with performance improvements.
Internal processes are being refined to get the downtime to match the speed of SnapShot. We knew about other vendors' back-end duplication tools, but they all would have required us to duplicate our storage.