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SnapshotIQ is designed to help you provide highly efficient, cost-effective, low recovery objective data protection. Once a baseline snapshot has been established, only changes to blocks that make up a file are reflected in updates to the current version of snapshots. This allows highly efficient snapshot storage utilization. Also, since snapshots are an integral part of the OneFS file system, there is no need to pre-allocate dedicated snapshot reserve space.
One of the largest IT costs associated with backup and restore is the sheer number of help desk calls from end users who accidentally delete a file or directory. To reduce these costs, SnapshotIQ can be used to empower end users by enabling them to easily find and restore their own accidentally deleted data – without any IT intervention. In this way, business users remain productive and the impact on IT staff can be significantly reduced.
SnapshotIQ transcends the limits of traditional approaches by reliably distributing a highly scalable number or snapshots across multiple, highly available PowerScale storage nodes. The result is a remarkably simple, scalable and efficient data backup and recovery capability that allows you to meet the demanding data availability requirements of your business.