Cisco SANTap

Best-in-Class Continuous Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, and Data Migration: Cisco and Storage Engine Team to Deliver Innovative Network-Centric Storage Solutions

Why Storage Engine Synchronism with Cisco SANTap?
Real business benefits...

SANTap works with Synchronism to deliver advanced storage services that optimize the availability of mission critical applications in a Cisco environment.

Synchronism + SANTap: innovative network-based solutions now at your fingertips

• Continuous data protection (CDP) – creates continuous snapshots of local data for granular data protection and instant data rollback to known-good points in time to ensure business continuity
• Continuous data replication (CDR) – delivers continuous replication of data to heterogeneous remote storage; maintains an up-to-date remote set of data from which to quickly recover in the event of a site-level disaster 
• Backup consolidation & acceleration – facilitates backups of snapshot-based data, for fast backups with traffic offloaded from application servers and the LAN, eliminating the need for backup windows
• Realtime data migration – facilitates transparent movement of data between heterogeneous or similar storage arrays without downtime to production servers

Storage Engine and Cisco seamlessly join forces via SANTap

Through joint collaborative efforts, Storage Engine has seamlessly integrated its Synchronism software with Cisco’s MDS 9000 family of multilayer SAN switches via the Cisco MDS 9000 Series SANTap Service (SANTap) to optimize the data availability of enterprises’ mission-critical applications.

Enterprises using Cisco's SANTap service easily take advantage of the advanced set of Synchronism storage services – including effective, simple-to-deploy solutions for data protection, business continuity/disaster recovery, and data migration. Synchronism appliances can simply be plugged into the Cisco MDS 9000 series switch, via SANTap, to seamlessly connect into the existing data path without disrupting the existing configuration and introduce robust intelligence into the network.

Storage Engine/Cisco solutions maximize business uptime

Combined Storage Engine/Cisco solutions include:

• Continuous Data Protection — rapid data recovery for business continuity
• Continuous Data Replication — rapid data recovery for disaster recovery
• Backup Consolidation & Acceleration — windowless backup
• Realtime Data Migration — downtime-free storage upgrades

Take advantage of the unique synergy of Storage Engine Synchronism and Cisco SANTap

• Award-winning, proven Storage Engine technology validated by leading OEMs
• Non-disruptive, easy-to-deploy solutions for local & remote data protection & data migration
• Injects intelligence into the network
• Does not require host-based replication applications
• Database-specific snapshot agents ensure transactional integrity & point-in-time consistency of data for reliable & fast data recovery (available for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Exchange, Lotus Notes, etc.)
• Effective rapid data recovery solutions enable businesses to meet recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO)
• Flexibility to employ sophisticated I/O, CPU, and network throttling based on performance needs
• Data compression during long distance replication maximizes network bandwidth utilization to minimize connectivity costs
• Encryption ensures end-to-end data security between primary and DR site