|
|
Intelligent Zero Backup Window Solutions
System administrators face a daunting task: ensuring the long-term storage and availability of all mission-critical data, without impacting production servers and processing. In today's environment, the amount of critical data is constantly increasing (doubling every year), yet backup windows are shrinking due to 24x7 processing days. Previous attempts to accelerate backup to fit into an ever-shrinking backup window have done little. DR-Scout provides a new way to avoid backup windows altogether. Through its continuous data protection (CDP) process, changes are continually replicated from production servers onto low-cost secondary disk storage. Since secondary disk can store data for days at a time, system administrators can schedule off-peak period backup to tape storage. This way, you meet the data retention goals of your enterprise while eliminating gaping holes in data protection left by purely tape-based approached. All of this capability is delivered in a unified software solution that works with your existing storage investment and does not require a SAN.
How it Works:
Small host-based agents capture data changes from mission-critical applications and database servers and store them to low-cost secondary local and/or remote disk storage. DR-Scout performs compression and de-duping on the out-of-band server, and provides bandwidth throttling to make the most of scarce bandwidth in the case of off-site protection. The diagram below shows a typical implementation:
Near Zero RTOs and RPOs
Organizations have discovered that traditional RPO's and RTO's are not good enough. In order to ensure business continuity, the organization cannot rely on slow, error-prone data recovery from tape. Likewise, it cannot afford the gaps in coverage provided by daily backups: what happens if a disaster occurs during the workday? DR-Scout provides near-zero RTO and RPO - the only way to meet or exceed business availability and continuity goals of the day. Today nobody wants to lose data.
Continuous Data Protection Solution
Sooner or later an organization will need to instantly recover to any business event, such as large financial transaction or other significant occurrence in day-to-day-enterprise operations. With the InMage CDP solution based on a proactive business event aware methodology, customers are assured of continuous data protection and recovery. This approach significantly reduces the host footprint and data movement, while providing a unified interface for protection, recovery and management. Read more about this breakthrough approach that offers affordable, consistent, application-focused data continuity.
Unique Features and Benefits:
Elimination of Backup Window: As the amount of data grows and the backup window shrinks, companies struggle to deal with a bad situation that is made worse by slow, labor-intensive recovery processes and the ever-present threat of lost data. DR-Scout solves this problem by eliminating the backup window from production server’s altogether while ensuring 100% data protection coverage. By continuously storing changes to secondary storage, critical application data is available at any time without adversely impacting application servers. Intelligent management software compresses data, and allows IT to schedule periodic backups to long-term storage, maximizing productivity and WAN capacity. Application log management is built in order to provide a complete backup solution. Your first recovery point is always from disk instead of tape. This provides a faster and much more reliable recovery.
Use WAN Resources Intelligently:
Bandwidth is the single largest recurring cost in Disaster Recovery, and is often the most difficult to manage and contain since it is often shared with other business applications. Given that the WAN is used for mission-critical, production work, it is important to optimize its usage so that data protection does 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 replication policies ensure that resources are carefully optimized while business continuity is ensured.
Non-disruptive Approach: DR-Scout is designed to work efficiently in a production environment. The host agent is a very small agent that offloads CPU-intensive activities, such as compression and encryption to the out-of-band CX server. It only stores changes after an initial synchronization. This significantly reduces the number of copies of data that need to be provisioned and managed. Your data is continuously backed up without intervention providing continuous data protection and application availability for your business-critical applications.
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 solve multiple problems. With DR-Scout one unified 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.
Cost-effectiveness
DR-Scout maximizes the reuse of existing infrastructures. It is designed to work transparently with both existing and new application installations, requiring no reformatting or migration of the user's existing data. In addition DR-Scout VX (for volume CDP) and DR-Scout FX (for file-level data protection) can handle most outages without requiring an expensive data resynchronization operation. This means better productivity and fewer administrative headaches.
Requirements Scoping: InMage features an industry-unique Modeler that lets you run DR-Scout in a analyst mode to determine exactly how much bandwidth and storage you will need to provision to protect your data based on your RPO and RTO policies. It also helps determine exactly which servers need to be protected by reporting exactly how much data changing. The benefit: you will be able to determine very precisely the bandwidth, Recovery Time Objectives (RTO's) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO's) your business requires.
|
