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Data Protection Advisor is designed to not only monitor Dell data protection applications such as Avamar, NetWorker, and PowerProtect Data Manager, but also supports multiple third-party vendor applications including Commvault, Veritas NetBackup and many others. Also, the infrastructure used to store and transmit data within the environment can be monitored, including tape libraries, fibre channel switches, physical or virtual servers, and deduplication appliances like Dell PowerProtect DD series appliances (formerly known as Dell Data Domain).
Regardless of the size of the organization or the volume of data protected, Data Protection Advisor provides a layer of abstraction to one or more data protection titles used within the organization. This enables multiple stakeholders to obtain information relevant to them, not just from the previous day, but going back months or years to meet specific requirements.
Data Protection Advisor provides insight not only for data protection administrators and operations managers, but also for application owners, risk/security teams and management. Collectively, the various stakeholders are provided automated reporting and alerting of the data protection environment, enabling them to ensure gaps in data protection are addressed and within compliance/risk-based service level agreements (SLAs).
Knowing what is protected, how often backups are performed, the retention of data and more importantly, what is not protected, is extremely important information to any organization.