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Pretty much every backup reporting product claims their product is customizable (including us). Let’s take a closer look at this. With each backup product, there is a set of reports that comes with it. These are often referred to as “canned reports” or “out-of-the-box-reports” where, once you’ve installed, you can start generating these reports. These reports typically are bound to a pre-defined timeframe (i.e. last 24 hours, last week etc..) and represent a pre-defined target (all backup domains, a tape library, a backup server etc
So, when someone asks “can I customize reports”, what do they mean? What are they expecting?
Last time we took a look at some of the performance improvements we made in MR3 in the client towards our goal of "zero-impact security". Now let's look at some of the changes we made in the management server itself.
One of the biggest improvements is a change we made in the LiveUpdate signature delta generator. When LiveUpdate runs on the management server and downloads new virus and IPS signatures from the Symantec server, it creates deltas, so that minimal data is transmitted over your company's pipes when your clients request the latest virus and IPS signatures. We completely redid the delta generator in MR3, resulting in an increase of 1000% in time to create the deltas! Not only is this process unbelievably faster than before, but it also creates significantly smaller deltas. The overall benefit is that the management server is more responsive than before, since it is no longer spending as much time creating deltas.
