<p class="Body" style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">EMC Data Protection Advisor is customizable data-protection management software that enables backup reporting, alerting, monitoring, and analysis of your data protection software, hardware, and related infrastructure. It<span style="COLOR: red"> </span>allows customers to make the right decisions faster, saving them time and money and improving their data protection. By collecting information from across backup, file servers, databases, and virtualization infrastructures in a single, configurable interface, it automates manual tasks, enables faster problem solving, and allows easy management of service levels—all while significantly reducing the time involved with audit, compliance, and other reporting requirements.</span>
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<p class="Body" style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 3pt"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Data Protection Advisor collects and reports on a variety of backup environment components, including the backup software, tape drives, operating system, and network. Some common uses for Data Protection Advisor are:</span></p>
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