1 Growth creates challenges Mobile phone service is one of the most desired amenities in almost every country in the world. It’s an important reason why Hubei Unicom, in south-central China, has 100 million customers and is adding about one million customers a year. Favorable as it is, such growth is not without its problems. Hubei Unicom now has three petabytes of data to protect. About 10 terabytes of new and changed data must be backed up successfully each night, and the data must be recovered quickly if necessary to maintain service. Potential bottlenecks threaten database operations Backing up the data within the required backup window was proving to be difficult. The company had been using EMC Networker but switched to Veritas NetBackupTM software in 2005. “We found that N

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