Explanation

Many products on the market today have been developed to do one task only. Some are designed for disaster recovery, sending files and volumes over the WAN to long-term storage. Others have been built to provide continuous data protection, with a focus on local storage and an emphasis on Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) or Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Without DR-Scout, an enterprise would need to piece together multiple tools to adequately address business data protection needs. DR-Scout was engineered from day one to solve end-user pain in implementing not only disaster recovery, but also continuous data protection and other issues such as branch office consolidation

Benefit

World-class data protection, with support for heterogeneous storage, without the cost or disadvantages of traditional approaches.

Explanation

Organizations that use DR-Scout avoid the pitfalls of traditional array-based approaches which are very costly and tied to a proprietary, inflexible architecture. They also avoid the problems associated with host-based approaches that limit performance with the overhead of server-based software that consumes CPU cycles. DR-Scout brings the benefits of the host-based approach while avoiding its disadvantages. A small volume or file replication agent runs on the application server, but sends the data to an out-of-band application that does all the compression and encryption. In this way DR-Scout avoids the traditional performance problems while providing superior data recovery capabilities

Benefit

Save on initial cost, reduce complexity of management, and reduce total cost of ownership.

Explanation

While other vendors talk about recovering to a specific event, only InMage solutions can actually accomplish this since they focus solely on the data, and are not application-aware. This means that, while they may be able to recover to a specific point in time, they are not able to provide the exact business context that is so often needed in a major or minor crisis. DR-Scout has built-in integration with applications such as databases (SQL, Oracle), email servers (Exchange) and file servers. DR-Scout also enables synchronized data protection of multi-server applications such as ERP installations. Only DR-Scout allows you to insert Business Event Bookmarks into the change data stream, and use them for fast recovery point selection.

Benefit

Meet even the most aggressive RTO and RPO goals, while easily demonstrating compliance with industry regulatory requirements.

Explanation

DR-Scout centrally managed data protection interface simplifies the setup of protection policies and recovery actions via wizards that provide hints based on the applications being protected. Failure or warning conditions are handled proactively with SNMP and email alerts. Data protection metrics and trends are displayed in a single dashboard view to provide quick, intuitive monitoring of the policies.

Benefit

Zero monitoring overhead from backup administrators on a daily basis - a big cost savings.

Explanation

DR-Scout provides a unique modeling capability that accurately predicts bandwidth needed to meet or exceed the service levels essential to disaster recovery. Unlike other products that cannot predict, and can often cause disruptions during deployment, DR-Scout in analytical mode captures all the data, performs the de-duplication, and tells IT exactly how much bandwidth it needs to execute.

Benefit

IT can provide extremely granular RTO and RPOs which helps to build service level agreements that can be delivered.