Why is real-time continuous data protection (CDP) so important?

Continuous data protection ensures business critical data is completely protected in a continuous, automatic, and real-time manner. Continuous data protection guarantees that when a system fault occurs the data will be fully retrievable, whether the cause is a software error, corruption, user error, virus attack, or anything else. It provides complete granularity allowing administrators to recover data to any moment. For example, if a virus attack occurs at 4:00 p.m., a system can be recovered to 3:59:59 p.m., right before the virus affected the system.

How does everRun CDP & DR make IT staff more productive?

Since everRun CDP & DR is completely automated, this allows the IT staff to invest more time on strategic initiatives instead of managing complex data protection operations. The simplicity of the software and its robust, intuitive interface, staff do not require expensive, time-consuming specialist training to operate everRun CDP & DR.

How does CDP differ from RAID, replication or mirroring technologies?

Wikipedia has a very good, vendor-neutral definition. "Continuous data protection differs from RAID, replication, or mirroring in that these technologies only protect against a storage hardware failure by protecting the most recent copy of the data. If a software problem corrupts the data, these technologies will simply protect the corrupt data. Continuous data protection will protect against some effects of data corruption by allowing an installation to restore a previous, uncorrupted version of the data. (Transactions that took place between the corrupting event and the restoration will be lost, however. They must be recovered through other means, such as journaling.)"

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