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Consequently, timely and effective DPM requires business and application
awareness to correlate and analyze events that affect service and IT resource
usage. Business awareness is the ability to collect and correlate IT assets to
application interdependencies and resource usage with specific business
owners or functions for reporting and analysis. Application awareness is the
ability to relate IT resources to specific applications within the data protec-
tion environment to enable analysis and reporting.
A challenge in business- and application-aware DPM has been the fact
that many organizations maintain ...