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"InMage DR-Scout software offers a new way of thinking about disaster recovery. We talked to a lot of customers, and came to a profound conclusion: Companies had a total lack of flexibility in deploying and managing their DR solutions. InMage solves these problems by providing a flexible, scalable and heterogeneous Disaster Recovery solution that allows them to proactively protect their data. DR-Scout offers our customers an adaptable, modular approach that doesn't require a forklift upgrade or consume the entire IT budget."
- Kumar Malavalli
Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of InMage
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Disaster Recovery and Data Availability
Disaster Recovery Solutions
Business disruption due to lack of continuous data availability is extraordinarily costly for businesses around the world. In fact, The National Archives and Records Administration reports that more than 93 percent of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. Even the largest enterprises are exposed to the prospect of frequent business interruptions due to infrequent backups, backup failures, data corruptions, virus attacks, and other crises.
Previous solutions fell short on both technology and cost fronts by scheduling backups and recovery on a single dimension- time - with no correlation to an organization's business events. That approach limited an organization's ability to accurately assure data consistency across geographical boundaries or to recover information based on a significant transaction or meaningful activity.
InMage has solved these problems. The unique combination of scoping assistance, near-zero RPO and RTO, support for heterogeneous environments, and lack of disruption to the existing infrastructure both during installation and throughout normal operations provides clear, quantifiable benefits to even the largest organizations.
How it Works:
DR-Scout provides comprehensive yet very cost-effective disaster recovery, through a unique combination of patent-pending technology, continuous data and application backup, compression and de-duping, and bandwidth throttling. The diagram below shows a typical implementation.
Unique Features and Benefits:
Disaster Recovery Requirements Scoping: DR-Scout CX features an industry-unique Modeler that lets you run DR-Scout in a test environment to determine exactly how much bandwidth and storage you will need to execute in a production environment. It also helps determine exactly which servers need to be protected, by indicating how much data is really changing. The benefit: you will be able to determine very precisely your bandwidth requirements and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Unlike other products, with DR-Scout you will know exactly what you can deliver - before you even implement.
Non-disruptive Approach: Many companies have suffered at the hands of vendors who purported to sell a Disaster Recovery solution, but in fact succeeded in disrupting normal operations. With InMage, there is no need for reformatting or migration of the user's existing data. The products work transparently with both existing and new application installations. In addition, DR-Scout VX (for volume CDP) and DR-Scout FX (for file-level data protection) are designed to handle most outages without requiring an expensive data resynchronization operation. This means better productivity and fewer administrative headaches.
Heterogeneous Support: Today's organization has many operating systems, many storage subsystems and many applications. Where possible, IT wants to use a single, integrated solution to multiple problems. With DR-Scout, one single solution supports a variety of primary and secondary storage, applications, databases and operating systems. This enables IT to optimize for cost, while reducing total cost of ownership.
Integrated WAN Management Capabilities: Bandwidth is the single largest recurring cost in Disaster Recovery, and is often the most difficult to manage and contain since it is often outsourced. Given that the WAN is used for mission-critical, production work, it is important to optimize WAN usage so that Disaster Recovery functions do not impact business. DR-Scout manages this scarce commodity carefully. Sophisticated compression, coalescing and de-duplication ensure that the smallest possible amount of data is sent across the WAN. Intelligent bandwidth usage and throttling, coupled with information tiering, ensure that resources are optimized while business continuity is ensured.
Application Failover Support: Critical applications such as email can be automatically failed over from the primary site to a secondary site, in case of disaster or disruption. This failover can take place in a matter of minutes, ensuring continuous data protection and application availability for your business-critical applications.
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